Sagar Menon
@menonslibrary
Sagar Menon
High agency can be a confusing idea to understand because it’s not just one idea. It’s a combination of three distinct skills rarely found together:
- Clear thinking
- Bias to action
- Disagreeability
High Agency
we found that students exposed to smartboards and digital content actually fared worse in mathematics and writing compared to their peers in classrooms without digital tools.
The reasons were sobering. Teachers had not been adequately trained in using these technologies. Mathematics, which requires cognitive scaffolding and immediate feedback, suffe... See more
The reasons were sobering. Teachers had not been adequately trained in using these technologies. Mathematics, which requires cognitive scaffolding and immediate feedback, suffe... See more
Article
We are witnessing a silent, collective decline of attention span, memory, and conceptual depth. And this crisis is now bleeding into education.
Article
Kids are curious, but the curiosity I mean has a different shape from kid
curiosity. Kid curiosity is broad and shallow; they ask why at
random about everything. In most adults this curiosity dries up
entirely. It has to: you can't get anything done if you're always
asking why about everything. But in ambitious adults, instead of
drying up, curiosity be... See more
curiosity. Kid curiosity is broad and shallow; they ask why at
random about everything. In most adults this curiosity dries up
entirely. It has to: you can't get anything done if you're always
asking why about everything. But in ambitious adults, instead of
drying up, curiosity be... See more
Paul Graham • What You'll Wish You'd Known
Instinct, in this deeper sense, is not a reflex. It is not a primal force that overrides reason. It is the fruit of formation. Over time, our habits and choices shape a kind of interior response to reality. When that response becomes aligned with the good, it can be trusted. When it is shaped by fear, pride, or imitation, it becomes a source of con... See more
Basic Instincts
“I know it when I see it”.
High agency is one of those “I know it when I see it” ideas. And once you see it – you can’t unsee it. Before I explain it, let’s see it.
High agency is one of those “I know it when I see it” ideas. And once you see it – you can’t unsee it. Before I explain it, let’s see it.
High Agency
famously questioned whether any system, however well-designed, could ever nurture freedom. For him, true learning happened in freedom from fear, not in efficient content delivery. If AI’s omnipresence in classrooms creates an atmosphere where mistakes are quickly corrected, paths auto-completed, and creativity constrained by what’s already been don... See more
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pedagogy is not content delivery. It is a relational, embodied, and context-rich process. It depends on trust, dialogue, spontaneity, eye contact, missteps, and encouragement. No AI system, no matter how sophisticated, can replicate the chemistry of a teacher who senses a student’s confusion and adapts - not by code, but by care.
