Jeff Greene
Prof of Ed Psych & Learning Sciences at UNC-CH | Scholar, speaker, consultant studying how people learn in the digital world | APA & AERA Fellow | Journal & Handbook Editor | Book Author | Views are my own. linktr.ee/jeffgreene
- "Targeting regional universities and community colleges reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of tenure—as if it were a privilege reserved for a select few rather than an essential working condition for all faculty responsible for teaching and research..." (1/2)
- ".... It also rests on the false premise that tenured faculty are unaccountable. In reality, tenured professors are already subject to regular evaluation, post-tenure review, and professional standards, including the very accountability measures this order claims to advance elsewhere." (2/2)
- If/when people recognize when their mind wanders: what do they do about it? This article outlines an integration of task-unrelated thoughts (TUTs) into Winne's model of self-regulated learning. Numerous directions for future research! doi.org/10.1111%2Fco... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
- An interesting and informative listen! I appreciated their discussion of instrumental v. executive help-seeking when using GenAI and how GenAI might change the typical expertise pyramid in a company.
- Spotify: bit.ly/AuthIntelSpo... Apple: apple.co/4thFPQ2
- Frontier science: Good to see additional evidence of refutation text effects. In addition, the second result surprised me. "First, our data replicate prior results that refutation texts can have strong effects on conceptual change...and second..." (1/2) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
- "contrary to expectations, we found no indication that participants’ reading goals affected the effectiveness of refutation texts on initiating conceptual change."
- Watched this tonight. Really enjoyed it. Wish things like this were happening more often today.
- The headline is this quote: "At this point in its trajectory, the risks of utilizing generative AI in children’s education overshadow its benefits." There's more to the story, though. And part of the story is we just don't have enough good research on #GenAI, yet. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
- To solve the tanking problem in the NBA, how about they legislate that if you are in the bottom six teams in the league, you cannot draft the top three?
- I'd like to see carefully designed research on this. "[Compared to teaching the class without the AI-assisted textbook], engagement went up. I always have that front row of students that’s engaged, but I had several front rows that were engaged. Students started showing up for office hours..." (1/n)
- "...wanting to discuss their paper with me. I was shocked. It also increased accessibility because the textbook has audio and video versions of the chapters; a number of students told us they were listening to it on their way to class or at the gym. Another student who had never used AI..." (2/n)
- "...said he learned a lot from the textbook because of the built-in chatbot that was linked to the textbook. The chatbot was designed not to give students the answers. And the questions it asks aren’t about the date something happened, but about..." (3/n)
- "...understanding arguments, logic, or the causality and effect, and so they had to really think through that." (4/4)
- "What would it look like to take this dichotomy seriously? First, identify, celebrate, and maintain the teaching, mentoring, and research activities that define your mission. Embrace Baumol and be clear how these activities are central to who you are and accept that they are necessarily..." (1/n)
- "...inefficient. Second, demand scalability from the business side." My very practice-based and novice thoughts: Intriguing, but any scalability must maintain utility to individual units. A School of Education's marketing plan is very different than the School of Business's plan, and..." (2/n)
- "... scaled services must be able to deliver value to every unit. And I do think some scalability is possible in instruction. High-structure introductory courses, shifting curricula to capture refocus on the unique value of human labor (as opposed to technological offloading), and..." (3/n)
- ...providing robust student success supports would likely enhance what students have when they graduate. All that said, much of teaching, mentoring, and research are not 'scalable' and that's perfectly fine. They are important, bespoke activities." (4/n)
- "Individual fears of AI in a given occupation are associated with the mismatch between psychological traits people deem necessary for an occupation and perceived potential of AI to possess these traits." And the fears vary country. (1/3) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/amp0...
- Intriguing study exploring ways people doubt #GenAI 's capability to enact certain human traits. Frankly, I don't think AI can (or ever will) exhibit actual warmth, sincerity, etc. So, for me... (2/3)
- ...the more an occupation requires those traits, the more #GenAI must be designed to productively augment humans, rather than replacing them.
