Bemusings

Consider the motivations and emotions affecting how your feedback is received.

AI can help researchers with the mechanics of doing a systematic review, but golly - it shouldn't do the review for them!

Making the argument for even more integration of the science of learning into educator training

Kent Harber's Model of Threat-Infused Intergroup Feedback has important implications for truly addressing racial bias.

Veronica Yan and Brendan Schuetze have a terrific take on this question, modeling the way scholarly discourse should happen.

Jason Blakely's article on scientism and its consequences is worth a careful read.

A new study suggests yes, there is value in the "liberal arts" aspects of college.

Describing the marshmallow test as a test of self-control is a good sign a person doesn't know much about psychology.

A recent paper questions what we lose when we assume there's a thing called "normal" reading.

The debate about growth mindsets heats up (yet again), but also illustrates something important about scholarship.

Deep source evaluation strategies may be backfiring in a non-intuitive way.

New evidence that only particular kinds of beliefs predict susceptibility to bad information

Winstone and Nash have proposed a psychological science of effective feedback.

Social media has been all about connecting people (e.g., Facebook’s mission statement is “to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together”). That’s no longer enough. We want and need more from social media, and research has begun to show us how

One of the best lines in Marvel Cinematic University history, if I do say so myself, is this one: Indeed, I often think about how “all words are made up” and therefore, they necessarily take on new meanings across times and cultures (except for “fetch” which no one ever made

The amount of hype and energy around artificial intelligence (e.g., ChatGPT) in education is reaching Bitcoin^100 levels (I believe Bitcoin hype times itself 100 times is officially called a “Pets.com-plex”). Count me as extremely cautiously optimistic. People, not the AI itself, will ultimately determine whether it ends

From my perspective, the help-seeking literature has kind of stalled out. That’s surprising because student help-seeking is pretty darn important. Students need to have the skills to know when they need help, to seek the appropriate type of help, and to implement that help to not only complete a

I’ve been thinking about the Supreme Court’s ruling regarding race-conscious admissions policies. On LinkedIn, Eldrin Deas prompted me to write something about that, but I wanted to do some reading first, because there’s a big difference between working in and thinking about higher education and actually studying

For this, my first post on digital learning research, I thought I’d do a “type aloud” (a term I just made up…I think). Often in my research I ask participants to “think aloud” as they work on something, in the hope of revealing not only what they are

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