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This is quite a good article covering the full breadth of the argument against learning styles. It's interesting, though, that the title on the page - "Learning styles don't exist" - is different from the title in the metadata - "The evidence is clear: learning styles theory doesn't work"....

This is a response from a senior program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to criticisms Phil Hill offered last fall. I covered it here...

I really enjoyed this TikTok video about the difference between real math and what's taught in schools. It's probably not what you think - it's not, for example, the suggestion that there should be more 'practical' math taught in schools. Quite the opposite. Instead, what you don't learn "until...

"Why is it that learning design is being talked about much more and why do universities feel that they need more people to engage in this work?" asks Neil Mosley. "It's impossible to downplay the role that growing complexity and a diversity of modalities, such as blended, hyflex and online distance learning have had," he says. But the article is mostly about resistance to...

According to this article, "BuzzFeed says its going to use AI tools provided by ChatGPT creator OpenAI to 'enhance' and 'personalize' its content." The original article was posted in the Wall Street Journal. It's behind a paywall, but it seems to be allowing readers who access it...

Here's another example of why it's so important to consider the ethics of AI. Can you imagine what the result would be if Elon Musk owned chatGPT outright, the way he owns Twitter? Would we ever see a response like this: "The Qur'an is a sacred text to Muslims and should be...