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It's interesting to see the pundits all weighing in on web3 these days. I'm not sure what has prompted it - nothing really significant has happened in the last few months; it's just blockchain and tokens and NFT and IPFS as usual. A lot of the commentary has been quite critical - see, for example, Doug Belshaw commenting of a reecent paper that "There are so many issues...

This short post is relevant in light of the recent Chinese government decision to shut down private tutoring agencies for children - I covered this here. The current study examines the phenomenon, here called 'shadow education', in India....

To be frank, I give very little weight to cognitive load theory. It is based on the premise that learning consists of pushing information through a very small opening, called 'working memory', and ultimately into a much larger store, called 'long term memory'. The size of the working memory is the 'cognitive load' a person can bear. Now there is a strict sense in which...

While the source of news matters, it is not the only thing that matters, and addressing the problem of fake news by having students investigate sources does not, in my view, substitute for a broader critical analysis of news. The weakness of this article - and so many like it, in...