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Will Existing Mental Models Threaten Post-pandemic Progress in Education?

Catlin Tucker

I fear schools will revert to what is comfortable and what aligns with existing mental models instead of questioning the status quo, taking inventory of the lessons learned this year, and paving a new path forward. The Power of Mental Models. Teacher training programs likely reinforced those mental models.

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How to Help Students Avoid Getting Duped Online — and by AI Chatbots

Edsurge

You have a lot of great metaphors in the book, and you argue that a problem is that people aren’t using the right kind of mental model to properly evaluate information online. You’ve developed what you call the SIFT method for evaluating information online. It's not able to evaluate things in the way a human is.

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Checking Your Edtech Assumptions

Edsurge

Most recently at our Austin Summit, we facilitated a workshop where over 60 school and district leaders indicated their level of comfort with the assumptions baked into different categories of edtech tools: Assessment, Collaboration and Communication, Curriculum, Data Management and Professional Growth.

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