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Gary AckermanWant to learn effectively? Desirable difficulties are learning strategies that "make things hard on yourself, but in a good way". This includes varying study conditions, interleaving topics, spacing sessions, and using tests as learning events. <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/LearningScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LearningScience</a>

WulfyThe educator panic over AI is real, and rational. I've been there myself. The difference is I moved past denial to a more pragmatic question: since AI regulation seems unlikely (with both camps refusing to engage), how do we actually work with these systems?The "AI will kill critical thinking" crowd has a point, but they're missing context. Critical reasoning wasn't exactly thriving before AI arrived: just look around. The real question isn't whether AI threatens thinking skills, but whether we can leverage it the same way we leverage other cognitive tools.We don't hunt our own food or walk everywhere anymore. We use supermarkets and cars. Most of us Google instead of visiting libraries. Each tool trade-off changed how we think and what skills matter. AI is the next step in this progression, if we're smart about it.The key is learning to think with AI rather than being replaced by it. That means understanding both its capabilities and our irreplaceable human advantages.1/3 <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Education</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FutureOfEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FutureOfEducation</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AIinEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIinEducation</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Claude" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Claude</a> <a 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WulfyAI isn't going anywhere. Time to get strategic: Instead of mourning lost critical thinking skills, let's build on them through cognitive delegation—using AI as a thinking partner, not a replacement.This isn't some Silicon Valley fantasy: Three decades of cognitive research already mapped out how this works:Cognitive Load Theory: Our brains can only juggle so much at once. Let AI handle the grunt work while you focus on making meaningful connections.Distributed Cognition: Naval crews don't navigate with individual genius—they spread thinking across people, instruments, and procedures. AI becomes another crew member in your cognitive system.Zone of Proximal Development We learn best with expert guidance bridging what we can't quite do alone. AI can serve as that "more knowledgeable other" (though it's still early days). The table below shows what this looks like in practice:2/3<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Education</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FutureOfEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FutureOfEducation</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AIinEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIinEducation</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Claude" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Claude</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/EdAI" 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WulfyCritical reasoning vs Cognitive DelegationOld School Focus:Building internal cognitive capabilities and managing cognitive load independently.Cognitive Delegation Focus:Orchestrating distributed cognitive systems while maintaining quality control over AI-augmented processes.We can still go for a jog or go hunt our own deer, but for reaching the stars we, the Apes do what Apes do best: Use tools to build on our cognitive abilities. 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Francis HoFree energy is a universal concept in thermodynamics that governs how all things evolve in the universe. Whether you are developing better batteries, or simulating molecular structures to develop better drugs, you surely are using calculations or algorithm that rely on minimizing some type of free energy (most likely Gibbs). But why is it "free"? See this post: 👇<a href="https://freeenergy.blog/2023/FreeEnergy1.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://freeenergy.blog/2023/FreeEnergy1.html</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/learningScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#learningScience</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#physics</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/thermodynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thermodynamics</a>

Francis HoWhy is the second law of thermodynamics kind of like group theory? And is there a simple way to understand why all reversible heat engines MUST have the same efficiency? 👇<a href="https://freeenergy.blog/2023/CarnotEngine.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://freeenergy.blog/2023/CarnotEngine.html</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/learningScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#learningScience</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#physics</a>

Francis HoI regularly get confused about direct sums vs. Cartesian products vs. tensor products of vector spaces if it's been a while since I last thought about the topic, and then I would need to re-remember how things work. So I decided to jot down some notes to save some time in the future. Here's the post: <a href="https://freeenergy.blog/2024/TensorProductDirectSum.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://freeenergy.blog/2024/TensorProductDirectSum.html</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#math</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#physics</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/learningScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#learningScience</a>

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