Lesson: thoughtfully design GenAI interactions if you want to promote learning rather than just performance. As discussed here: doi.org/10.1111/jcal... (2/2)

Participants randomly assigned to a "think first, then work with #GenAI" condition outperformed general-use GenAI and control conditions on a delayed posttest no-GenAI creativity task. General-use GenAI did better on immediate posttest w/GenAI assistance. (1/2) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

"It’s not too late to avert the impending disaster. To start, we need leaders at all levels — but especially at the state level where policy is usually made — to offer districts clearer support and guidelines about appropriate and inappropriate uses of AI in schools."

Very helpful, thanks for sharing. Zoinks.

How good was the product? Would it have passed as is or was significant work needed to improve it?

Enhancing School Students’ Self-Regulated Learning through Generative AI Support: A Randomized Controlled Trial - Educational Psychology Review Educational Psychology Review - Self-regulated learning (SRL) is a critical competency for academic success and lifelong learning, yet providing personalized SRL support in real-time classroom...

Excited for another manuscript from our Educational Psychology Review topical collection! This is a cool pre-registered RCT of two #GenAI supported interventions. They illustrate an engagement challenge we need to better understand to use GenAI to support learning. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

This is why I am not watching.

Educational Psychologist Diverse Lenses on Improving Online Learning Theory, Research, and Practice. Volume 57, Issue 3 of Educational Psychologist

There's good research on moderated, thoughtful educational technology integration into classrooms. Alas, it requires strong training, nuance, and an understanding of local context. All those things cost money and time, which the US has not sufficiently funded. www.tandfonline.com/toc/hedp20/5...

Opinion | You Can’t Game Your Way to a Real Education

“In my conversations with the growing community of parents, teachers and researchers who criticize ed tech, no one seemed to share my enthusiasm for going back to vellum and quills. The solution, instead, is thoughtful moderation.” [Gift link]

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...

How Teachers Can Judge the Credibility of Research (Opinion) As a teacher, your time is limited. Don't waste it on programs that only serve the interest of the companies selling them.

Look, causal inference studies can be good or bad regardless of where the person who produced it works, what field their degree is in, and whether they have a PhD. You have to actually look at what they did. There are no shortcuts.

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💯And the "as a society, we haven't invested enough" is critical here. Compare US investment in education research v. investment in many other areas of research. For an area with such scope, complexity, and potential impact, education research gets comparatively little funding.

Nature/philosophy of science has shown it's really hard if not impossible to deeply understand original research in another field. There's just too much nuance, too much field-specific knowledge needed to vet well. Stick to the summaries that experts in those fields publish, like this one. (2/2)

Understanding the Evidence Base on AI in K-12 Education AI tools are arriving in schools faster than research can evaluate them. Teachers are experimenting with new tools and districts are writing policies, all while students are already using AI both…

Re-posting this because I'm seeing a lot of people outside of education/learning research posting about that research in the context of #GenAI. I encourage you to ignore those folks and pay attention to researchers in the education/learning field who've been doing this work a long time. (1/2)

This. Education research isn’t perfect but I fear claims that it is “all bad” come from the same places as claims that “those who can’t teach” and that education is “easy” and could be fixed quickly by outsiders. Outsiders who have earnestly tried typically come away chagrined. Education is hard.

Educational Psychologist Educational Psychology in the Open Science Era. Volume 56, Issue 2 of Educational Psychologist

Reproducibility is important & I'm all for making that a standard in education research. But just because researchers have not made code/data available does not mean the underlying research is poor. For an example of education moving toward open science, see here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/hedp20/5...

Reinventing the Wheel, Again The recurring blind spot in EdTech’s promises of frictionless scale

Whew- great analysis definitely worth reading: "The hardest challenge in EdTech is not building a capable tool. It is embedding that tool into systems that support motivation, accountability, and sustained use — especially for students who are juggling many demands and uneven academic preparation."

I'm not going to subscribe to an information source I've never heard of just to investigate the article that prompted this claim. Can you provide transparent evidence for your claim?

Me and Mira Brancu smiling for the camera

Mira Brancu smiling at a table with corn bread on it.

Date night with Mira Brancu at ACME in Carrboro, NC.

Screenshot of the title page of an article published in the journal "Educational Psychology Review" titled "Availability to Learn: An Essential, Achievable Condition for Self-Regulated Learning."

Exciting extension of models of self-regulated learning to an ecological perspective identifying "availability to learn" as a key factor affecting engagement. As the authors wrote: "Learning is fragile" - we need to account for this. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Understanding the Evidence Base on AI in K-12 Education AI tools are arriving in schools faster than research can evaluate them. Teachers are experimenting with new tools and districts are writing policies, all while students are already using AI both…

Grateful for this work by the Stanford SCALE Initiative for reviewing the research lit on the effects of #GenAI on academic performance. In short, no strong research with US K-12 students, little research on persistence of GenAI learning effects, and... (1/2) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

a man in a superman costume is standing in front of a door and saying here i come to save the day . ALT: a man in a superman costume is standing in front of a door and saying here i come to save the day .

Sounds like some self-regulation is needed! :)

Rebuilding IES to amplify the impact of education research on student outcomes | Brookings Leaders of AEFP discuss the state of education policy research and the future of the Institute of Education Sciences.

"Getting this right will require federal investments in three areas: Strengthening connections between research, policy, and practice...Learning about implementation and costs...[and] Maintaining a commitment to rigorous, independent, and publicly accessible science."

...some evidence GenAI can help teachers. In short, be careful about strong claims about GenAI offloading or GenAI benefits. We need more research. (2/2)

Understanding the Evidence Base on AI in K-12 Education AI tools are arriving in schools faster than research can evaluate them. Teachers are experimenting with new tools and districts are writing policies, all while students are already using AI both…

Grateful for this work by the Stanford SCALE Initiative for reviewing the research lit on the effects of #GenAI on academic performance. In short, no strong research with US K-12 students, little research on persistence of GenAI learning effects, and... (1/2) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Group shot of Aditi Ahuja, me, Michael Berro, Matt Bernacki, Glenn Xu, Jie Cao, Julia Choi, Christy Hollander, and Ha Nguyen in LA at AERA2026.

I am grateful to work with these folks every day and particularly proud of them and the scholarship they presented at #AERA2026. The best part of my job is learning from these wonderful folks.

The Guggenheim Foundation has always been committed to awarding Fellowships at the highest level. Since its founding in 1925, the Foundation has awarded nearly $450 million in fellowships to more than 19,000 Fellows. This year, applications in the Creative Arts and Humanities were up by 50% and applications in the Sciences were up by 86%. At a time when intellectual and creative life is under attack, the Foundation continues to demonstrate its commitment to supporting extraordinary individuals breaking new ground in the Creative Arts, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and a range of interdisciplinary fields.

External funding is rapidly reaching crazy levels of competition. Good luck, folks.

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Developing Destinies - A Mayan Midwife and Town 6.40s.mov The life of a Mayan woman who was born to be a midwife shows how people contribute to and are shaped by their cultural communities. Across this midwife's lifetime, her town has changed dramatically…

Here's another really compelling video by Barbara Rogoff on her book and the people who inspired it. I love her story about realizing that learning can happen without teaching, and what that can look like in communities. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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