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In Praise of Artificial Learning
Lessons from Herbert Simon on Effective Instructional Design
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The Monthly Dispatch - What's New in Learning Science - January 2026
Why do students use study strategies they know don't work? Plus new studies on retrieval practice, pre-questions, adaptive learning, habit-driven…
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The Learning Dispatch: A Year in Review
Year-end retrospectives are a minor genre unto themselves, and I am not entirely sure what purpose they serve beyond the ritual marking of time.
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Why Most Education Apps Fail
The non-negotiable conditions for learning don't care whether instruction comes from a teacher, a parent, or an algorithm but they do care about certain…
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The Lethal Mutation of Retrieval Practice
5 ways to get retrieval practice wrong and reflections on a new study which shows that when material is complex, testing can stop being a desirable…
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The Research Brief: What's New in Learning Science - December 2025
Three rounds of retrieval practice enhanced not just memorization but transfer to novel application questions one week later, outperforming both restudy…
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Why ChatGPT for Teachers Might Make Things Worse
OpenAI have just released ChatGPT for Teachers which I have just spent the morning looking at it and I have concerns.
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