Rick West

One of Disney's best scenes ever.

Barbara Rogoff offers a powerful definition of learning: “Learning is a process of changing participation.” This perspective expands learning beyond cognition alone and emphasizes the importance of social interaction, observation, culture, and participation in shared practices. A valuable framework for thinking about education, mentorship, and organizational learning. Full YouTube interview: youtu.be/NgTDfliTcVY #LearningSciences #BarbaraRogoff #Education #Learning #Teaching #Leadership

ArXiv will now ban authors for a year if they publish a paper with hallucinated citations. I wonder if this pattern will spread? Authors, check your sources! futurism.com/artificial-int…

I’ve been working on the Skyward series for nearly a decade, and to have a partner like Tomorrow Studios to help bring this story to television is a dream come true. deadline.com/2026/05/skywar…

Well, well, well. They said they couldn't verify ages ... until they were forced to, and now they say they can. I'm glad governments are now holding Big Social Media accountable. ksltv.com/local-news/met…

Weak, I have no respect for players that do this

More and more researchers are noting this trend.

in my seminar today, the other presenter gave an presentation about an AI/Adaptive learning support tool for supporting academic writing. However, she said, "I can't share my research findings from the study because it's not published." Copyright is harming our ability to share.

I'm giving a presentation tomorrow at 11 a.m. Madrid time if anyone in the U.S. has insomnia in the middle of the night. ;-). It will be about the observed meso-level impacts of microcredentials/open badge, and will be given in English. educate.uc3m.es/2026/05/07/la-…

"While AI assistance may ease initial learning, it appears to undermine the effortful processes needed for robust learning. These results have important implications of how generative AI tools should be integrated into higher education." sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Taken, designed, or explored #STEM #microcredentials? Quick survey. Share your experience with microcredentials: ufl.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4G…

Med News: A major meta-analysis has found that digital media use, particularly social media, is consistently linked to worse youth mental health and development. ja.ma/4tfdatD

Phone free schools cause --increased laughter in hallways --very loud lunchrooms --increases in books checked out of school library

If the NCAA moves eligibility to 5 years to play 5 seasons from when you graduate high school or turn 19 years old, they have to make an exemption for religious based schools like BYU and UTAH who routinely have student athletes go on 1-2 year mission trips before they ever play.

I'll be going, looking forward to it!

Mormons love to dance for sure. National champions in hip hop and ballroom most years!

Amazing: LA schools will eliminate personal devices in K and 1st grade, and limit use in grades 2-5, and give parents more options. I think this will catch on nationally:

Here's a strong statement by Spain's Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, on why Spain & Europe are moving decisively to protect children from social media: ft.com/content/128b2e…

Somehow the Jazz are going to get fined for what the Kings did.

🦔Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania studied what they call cognitive surrender, the tendency to accept AI outputs without critical evaluation. Across 1,372 participants and over 9,500 trials, subjects accepted faulty AI reasoning 73.2% of the time and only overruled it 19.7% of the time. When the AI was wrong, users still accepted its answer 80% of the time. Subjects who used AI scored 11.7% higher on confidence in their answers despite the AI being wrong half the time. Adding time pressure made people 12 percentage points less likely to catch AI errors. Adding financial incentives and immediate feedback made them 19 points more likely to catch them. My Take The time pressure finding matters enormously for how AI is actually being deployed in workplaces. Companies are using AI to justify faster turnaround times, which means employees are using it under exactly the conditions that make them least likely to catch mistakes. When you're rushed, your internal monitor for detecting errors essentially stops firing, so you get AI output, no time to review it, high confidence it's correct, and a meaningful chance it's wrong. People using a system that was wrong half the time still felt more confident in their answers than people who weren't using AI at all. That is a system actively making people worse at knowing what they don't know, which is one of the most dangerous things you can do to human judgment at scale. The companies pushing AI hardest into employee workflows should be reading this research carefully. Hedgie🤗 Link to research for those interested: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…