Browsing
Psychology
-
The Peacock & The Chatbot: Hollow Signals & the Trouble with AI Tutors
Why don’t students use AI-based tutor-bots? Holt calls this the 5% problem: only about five percent of Khan Academy students…
-
![100 Authentic Followers To Die For [new hyperlinked.us essay]](https://punyamishra.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/follow1.jpg)
100 Authentic Followers To Die For [new hyperlinked.us essay]
Hyperlinked is a collaborative book that Raaghav Pandya and I are writing at hyperlinked.us. Each chapter starts with something from…
-
Fourteen years, 77 columns: Looking back at our TechTrends series
Since 2012, Danah Henriksen and I, along with the Deep-Play Research Group, have been writing a regular column for TechTrends.…
-
The Meaning of Silence: Hollow Signals and AI Therapy
Danah Henriksen and I recently finished the latest column in our TechTrends series, a piece on what we call “hollow…
-
No one is immune: An Update on AI as a Psychological Technology
I blog about a lot of things. Some posts are just updates on talks and publications, a public record of…
-
Raising Independent Thinkers in the Age of AI: Webinar
A week or so ago I was invited to an #AskTheExperts webinar on Raising Independent Thinkers in the Age of…
-
27 Windows on the Universe (09): Metaphors as Windows
I thought I was done with this series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists.…
-
27 Windows on the Universe (07): The Ecosystem
This is the seventh in a series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists. T…
-
27 Windows on the Universe (06): The Drive
This is the sixth in a series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists. Earlier…
-
Look What You Made Me Do: The Dawkins Saga, Part II
A week or so ago I wrote a letter to Richard Dawkins — part tribute, part diagnosis — about his…
-
Three Questions on Questions: On Asking, Knowing and Noticing
Note: This post is a followup to a piece I had written earlier. You can find that post Why Sal…
-
From Spectator to Specimen: When Parasocial Media Becomes Parasocial AI
Facebook!!! How it has changed over the years. I remember the time when it was a space to connect with…
-
This View of Life: A Letter to Richard Dawkins
Note: Richard Dawkins made the news recently with an essay describing his two-day conversation with Claude, the AI chatbot from…
-
27 Windows on the Universe (05): The Internal Landscape
This is the fifth in a series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists. Earlier…
-
Why Sal Khan’t: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling
This piece was also cross-posted on the Civics of Technology blog. This piece also has a followup post that you…
-
The Autocomplete That Didn’t: Three More Reads on Dampuni
I recently wrote a post about my son Soham, aged two, replacing words in the Humpty Dumpty poem with a…
-
Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Dampuni: Play, Evolution, and Futures Thinking
This is the first of two posts. You can find the second post here. When my son was about two,…
-
Honest Non-Signals: Why AI Fools Us Without Lying
I have a test I give AI systems: a modified Ebbinghaus illusion where one circle is deliberately larger than the…
-
How do people think AI works? (Some surprising findings)
Those of us who work in and around artificial intelligence often exist in something of a bubble. We talk about…
-
The Curiosity Paradox: How Sycophantic GenAI May Undermine Learning
Over the years, our column series in TechTrends has explored the intersections of creativity, education, and emerging technologies. Over the…
-
The Nostalgia Machine: Why Ed Tech Research Keeps Missing the Point
A colleague recently shared a new study with me that, on the surface, seemed to confirm what many people suspect:…
-
Beyond Learning Styles II: Your Students’ Minds Work Nothing Like Yours (and They Don’t Know it Either)
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about cognitive diversity (and learning styles), essentially arguing that in the…
-
Blaming the Parents, Not the Platforms: How a World Bank Screen-Time Report Lets the Attention Economy Off the Hook
Note: This is a cross post with the Civics of Technology blog. The World Bank recently released a report titled…
-
The Yes-Bot Problem: Why Agreeable AI Makes Learning Harder
I just came across a study that should make anyone thinking about AI in education sit up and take notice.…
-
Einstein’s Beams and Feynman’s Colors: What We Lost When We Debunked Learning Styles
“When I see equations, I see the letters in colors — I don’t know why. As I’m talking, I see…
-
We Are All Living in Searle’s Chinese Room
I found out a couple of days ago that the philosopher John Searle passed away on September 17, just a…
-
Beyond Classroom Walls: The New Psycho-Social Ecology of GenAI
In our new paper published in AI-Enhanced Learning, my colleagues Nicole Oster, Lindsey McCaleb, and I argue that while educators…
-
LLMs are WEIRD Stochastic Parrots
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote about how AI systems trained on WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic)…
-
While We Weren’t Looking: The Real Digital Revolution Beyond School Walls
What is the role of technology in learning? I have devoted a large part of my professional life to this…
-
The Rorschach Test of AI Research: New Episode of AIR | GPT
Two recent studies about AI and education have been receiving enormous attention—MIT’s “Your Brain on ChatGPT” and the World Bank’s…