Come join us at IU! The IST Program is hiring!! https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/20182 (different program, but same department as me / LS). @learningsciences #IST #InstructionalSystems #InstructionalDesign

Awesome day 1 of Embodied Cognition and Learning class! We explored a network connecting us to theories and topics of interest and then discussed how embodying this with ourselves and balloons had different affordances than visualizing with software. #EmbodiedCognition #LearningSciences @learningsciences

Exciting new open access paper in ijcscl by led by Xintian Tu! We explore how gesture and embodiment are powerful communicative tools in a MR environment, and how some of these key embodiments carry over into interview contexts! https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11412-023-09395-z @learningsciences #LearningSciences #EmbodiedCognition #MixedReality

@ben thanks!!

Excited to have our article led by Zach Ryan about students’ mechanistic reasoning out for all to see! Really fun analysis about how students used our MEME tool to represent mechanism in complex systems!!

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1159558/full

(more on MEME at modelingandevidence.org)

Super excited to announce that the NSF has chosen to support a new project with my colleagues Cindy Hmelo-Silver, Ravit Duncan and Clark Chinn: Engaging students in discourse about criteria for judging scientific models!

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2300832&HistoricalAwards=false

We’ll continue to develop the ideas integrated into our Modeling and Evidence Mapping Environment (MEME) modelingandevidence.org and explore how we can support students in developing constructive practices of critique to refine their scientific models.

@carolinerpitt for sure! And I likely said / did the same things but I do wish he enjoyed school a bit more… he does love learning though!

Me: hey, your teacher says you did [some cool thing]
Child: ya
Me: was it fun? It sounds fun.
Child: meh
Child: better that normal school
Me: facepalm
Me: did you learn anything?
Child: no
[2 months pass]
Child: [makes point using thing he didn’t learn]
Me: facepalm

@nholbert thanks! Hopefully we can catch up on all the things at AERA?

IU did a nice press release about our new grant! https://research.impact.iu.edu/key-areas/social-sciences/stories/netcreate-nsf-grant.html #LearningSciences #NetworkVis #Visualization

I just paused in yelling at all of the people wrong on internet to mock my cat for growling out the window at cars she can’t get to. Oh. Yeah ok. Not gonna stop any more than she will, though. If I’m being honest.

@cquintana oof I hear that!

"One AI tutor per child" is just one version of the dream of GPT-powered personalized education reform that may overwhelm other conversations about education for a while, amplify misinfo in the classroom, and normalize the idea of AI companies as infrastructures of teaching and learning. Never has a critical AIED agenda been needed more.
https://saigaddam.medium.com/one-ai-tutor-per-child-personalized-learning-is-finally-here-e3727d84a2d7

And if we’re going to use generative AI as writing aids or design tools, what do we need to know about the training data? What is the relationship between the training data and a work created with the AI? Should we acknowledge the works used to train the AI? That may not be practical, but how do we think about the training set data in the overarching generative scenario and discuss its contribution? Or is that going too far?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/15/23640180/openai-gpt-4-launch-closed-research-ilya-sutskever-interview

Am I the only one who often reads “canonical” pieces in my field and thinks “gosh, no way this gets published as-is, today, with current review processes and expectations.” Which is not to say it shouldn’t be, but that the shifting field / pub expectations may be … imperfect. #AcademicChatter #LearningSciences @learningsciences

Pleased to announce that we have received NSF ITEST funding to explore how network visualization (via @NetCreateOrg) can be used to support middle grades students as they simultaneously explore visualization, data literacy, their shared identity, and interdisciplinary connexns. See a summary at https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2241705&HistoricalAwards=false along with all of the wonderful collaborators. Can’t wait to get started!!

#Programming

Curious how we’ve been using @NetCreateOrg to help 5th and 6th grade students explore their interests, data literacy, and lots of other things like the chicken industry? See our new examples page!! https://t.co/qHm2GFTa3z Or come visit us at @ISLS2023!! #NetworkVisualization #DataLiteracy #LearningSciences

Note to self, if you vaguetoot sarcastically and then share anecdotes with your collaborators they may try and match them all up! 😂

Academics: I hate when people think they understand my discipline despite not having studied it.

Also academics: I can learn all other disciplines at an expert level by reading for a few minutes!

🤔