Presenting today with Shayan Doroudi at #AERA2025 in the symposium “Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions” 🎓 Instruction vs. Construction: How Might Generative AI Best Support Learning? 🕓 4:20–5:50pm 📍 Bluebird Ballroom 3F

I’m at Albuquerque and going to present our TurtleBench poster on benchmarking LMMs’ geometric reasoning and code generation at #NAACL2025. 🕚 Wed, Apr 30, Poster session 1, 11-12:30 📍Hall 3. 👋 Reach out to discuss LLMs & education, student-AI interaction, Breaking Bad🔥, etc.

Where does the practice of deidentifying institutions in a paper reporting on a large sample from one ore more institutions come from (e.g., a large public university in the Midwest)? Often times, it's pretty easy to guess what the institution is. Is it necessary or useful?

Incredibly powerful investigation in Dutch newspaper NRC: Seven of the world’s leading genocide scholars — including renowned Holocaust experts — describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocidal. And according to them, nearly all of their peers agree.

Congratulations to Santiago Ojeda-Ramirez Juan Camilo Cristancho Andy de Barros from UCIEducation and Kelley Fong from UC Irvine Sociology!

AI in the wild? This tray tissue I was given at a restaurant is full of errors and hallucinations…!

On 08/02, Junyi Chu Arnav Verma Parastoo Abtahi will share what they've learned about puzzles/fun + multimodal reasoning/communication! Ben Motz Shayan Doroudi Dr. Ji Son Kristine Zheng Candace Thille and I will convene to make the case for studying human learning "in situ!"

The Washington Post has published the known names of the 18,500 children killed by Israel in Gaza since Oct. 7th. At every 500th child, the Post tells you how many names of dead children you've read. washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

If you're interested in visual perception, Minsky and Papert's 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘴, or how machine learning might give us insights about human cognition check out my poster at #cogsci2025 in this morning's poster session (P2-D-49)—or virtually below!

where have you seen ai / tech used to support this kind of shift? "The alternative to... schools is not the use of public resources for some new device which "makes" people learn; rather it is the creation of a new... relationship between man and his environment."