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

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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

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While teachers may understand assumptions made by software developers in the same way they understand those made by textbook publishers, their mental model may not include the digital equivalent to stacking textbooks in the corner when software isn’t aligned with their pedagogy.

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