Learning as a Collective

Learning as a Collective

This article was published in an abridged form in Getting Smart on 14 June 2023. It was also published on Intrepid Ed News on 5 July 2023. I'm not getting myself all worked up over how generative AI is going to revolutionize the world of education. I'm not spending too much time trying to find [...]

Trying to measure learning is absurd because there is no dualism between the student and the world

Trying to measure learning is absurd because there is no dualism between the student and the world

"When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not 'measuring' the world, we are creating it." —Niels Bohr, recipient of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics and contributor to our understanding of quantum theory. Last week, I led a staff workshop to launch a new [...]