2026-07-13 07:13 UTC
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@djb@social.shirow.net 2026-07-13 08:00
@David@setouchi.social @savvykenya@famichiki.jp I remember reading about the neurology(?) of “yubisashi kakunin “ , the physical actions and verbalisation pulling your brain to properly pay attention. Also https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202505/ai-weakens-critical-thinking-and-how-to-rebuild-it
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@androcat@toot.cat 2026-07-13 08:09
@David@setouchi.social Some general caveats, in case anyone wants to fight their inner old fart. 1) We're not really able to gauge "cognitive capability". What we do, is we make some measures that we hope somewhat correlate to "cognitive capbility", and we train these measures on pre-formed conclusions, i.e. we ask e.g. teachers to give their own hopefully not too biased opinion, and then we apply some statistical methods to make it all look "scientific". It remains some arbitrary measures. 2) Then what happens when we change how schools work? Or when society changes how families work? The measures are still measuring something that maybe kinda-sort correlate with "cognitive capability" some 20-30 years ago. But since families and schools changed, kids are learning different things, and the measures no longer align with that.Kids are still spending all their waking hours learning (it's unavoidable), but they are learning things that don't fall inside the measures we constructed for the previous generation. 3) Of course, none of that matters if kids are made to talk to Liar Liar Machines, because that really will suck the brains right out of their skulls, much like corporeal punishment and bullying.
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@LetoOfTheDesert@rivals.space 2026-07-13 09:16
@David@setouchi.social my literature teacher in high school, some 30/35 years ago, always spoke of the "memory of the wrist" when learning about something. Find rhe information, copy it, organize it, hierarchize it, so it is visually impacting to your eyes, and then read it aloud once or twice, summarize it in writing. Repeat the process one or two times (if needed) but usually, by the second time, you pretty much retain the essentials, and when you come back to it a week later, all the details will come by to you when you try writing it down from memory :)
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@themipper@mastodon.social 2026-07-13 10:04
@David@setouchi.social as a kid/teen I wished everything in school was digital. As an adult I know how good it was to have done everything on paper. Writing with a pen. Reiterating my thoughts and strengthening my neural pathways by writing things down or explaining it to others. Yes, kids need to understand the digital world as well. But that is separate from the rest. And don't get me started on how addictive and bad Smartphones are. I cannot imagine how devastating they must be when growing up with them.