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Mar 6

Mar 6 Expert Thinking and AI (Part 2)

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The first post in this series gave an overview of Artificial Intelligence - a broad field that seeks to both better understand human cognition through computer models and to improve task-based computer models - and some of the different AI tools that have been developed. These different AI tools have different pros and cons that make them more or less suited to certain tasks. […] In this post I want to explore how generative AI, specifically chatbots, are used and how they affect our thinking and development of expertise.

Feb 20

Feb 20 Expert Thinking and AI (Part 1)

Althea Need Kaminske

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Artificial Intelligence is many things. As a field of study, Artificial Intelligence seeks to both better understand human cognition through computer models and to improve task-based computer models (that is, where the goal is to improve performance on a task and not necessarily to model how a human would perform on that task). Artificial Intelligence is in many ways a sister-discipline to cognitive psychology which also seeks to better under human cognition.

Nov 21

Nov 21 Improving College Student Outcomes with Course Policies that Support Autonomy (Part 2)

Megan Sumeracki

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Last week, my blog post covered a paper by Simon Cullen and Daniel Oppenheimer. Their paper is titled Choosing to Learn: The Importance of Student Autonomy in Higher Education. In their paper, they present two studies.

The first study, covered in Part 1, was a randomized controlled…

Nov 14

Nov 14 Improving College Student Outcomes with Course Policies that Support Autonomy (Part 1)

Megan Sumeracki

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In today’s post, I want to share a cool, relatively new paper by Simon Cullen and Daniel Oppenheimer from Science Advances (1). The paper is titled, Choosing to Learn: The Importance of Student Autonomy in Higher Education. The methodology is …

Oct 17

Oct 17 Spacing and Retrieval Practice in Health Professions

Althea Need Kaminske

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In this review the Trumble and colleagues sought to better understand how spacing and retrieval practice are used in health professions education and whether these strategies led to improvements in academic grades.

Oct 10

Oct 10 To Prompt or Not To Prompt: Effects of Prompt-Questions and Educational Videos on Learning

Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel

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Educational videos are often used in the classroom setting to support instruction of content. On the positive side, these videos can help scaffolding a topic which can lead to better understanding of it. They can also increase situational interest in students because...