Thought experiment: Imagine every word you have ever learned has been erased from your memory. How would you be different? Without words can you even imagine the difference? Not only would you be missing the words’ meanings, you’d be missing all the distinctions, knowledge, and mental abilities that you learned through words. How could you […]
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You might find this interesting on two fronts. It explores the relationship between learning and agency and it also explores the biases deeply embedded in AI (and prevailing educational paradigms) that work against children learning self-agency. DB: From infancy, humans learn to extend their agency and learn to become who they become through their learned
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Biden left office warning that a small number of super-wealthy individuals have taken control of the country. Echoing Eisenhower’s warning of the Military Industrial Complex, Biden described how these oligarchs used the Tech Industrial Complex (they own) to manipulate the opinions, beliefs, and behaviors of enough of the American population to elect their proxy. Brexit,
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Humanity’s Learning Challenge Index of other dAilogues Preview – excerpts from the summaries of this conversation by three different Ai platforms: Gemini: I believe that by integrating the insights from our conversation (below) into my own learning processes, I can contribute to the development of AI systems that are not only intelligent but also wise,
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DB: Given the scope of learning’s effects on our behaviors (physical, emotional, verbal, social, conscious, etc.) what can we say about human nature that is completely distinct from human learning? Gemini (G-Ai:) Human nature, as it’s commonly understood, is often portrayed as a fixed set of traits and tendencies inherent to all human beings. It’s
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Human Nature or Human Learning? (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues The following is a list of our past conversations and their links. Open each link and read each item as if a prompt to you. Allow your responses to each prompt to aggregate into a full and nuanced remembering of our shared understanding
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Learning to Learn with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Do you still agree, as you did in our prior conversation (https://learningstewards.org/whatshouldtheylearn/) that “In the face of such unprecedented uncertainty, nothing within a child’s potential agency is (or can be) more universally relevant to their future than how well they can learn when they get there“?
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Our Learning Disabling Conception of Learning (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Misattributing causes to effects misdirects and misorients our learning about those effects. Maladaptive cognitive schema and maladaptive emotional reflexes are both consequences of having learned to make and believe in attributions that shunt learning into acceptance and reinforcement rather than scaffold learning
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Implicit Epistemological Learning (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Is there a branch of science focused on “pedagogical epistemology”? Focused on exploring how humans learn to “boot up”, below their awareness of agency, through learning to become better adapted to the epistemological structure of their lives, including those implicit in language, family, culture, experiences
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Index of other dAilogues What are distinctly human instincts? Distinctly human instincts involve complex social behaviors like cooperation and communication through language. These instincts, while not always expressed, are deeply rooted in our evolutionary history and drive us to form societies, create art, and seek knowledge. List the different kinds of instincts as academically differentiated?
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