Sagar Menon

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.

Carl Weiman received the Nobel Prize in physics in 2006. He has devoted much of his attention since to raising the standards of science teaching.

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,... See more

Student evaluations do not show that the best scholars are the best teachers. And when the claim that teaching and research are “mutually reinforcing” has been tested it has been squashed like a bug by a large volume of evidence. In 1996, four years before President Duderstadt addressed the topic, John Hattie and Herbert Marsh conducted a... See more

We are witnessing a silent, collective decline of attention span, memory, and conceptual depth. And this crisis is now bleeding into education.

They speak with a kind of authority that does not come from credentials or confidence, but from the integrity of their lives. Their judgments are not always perfect, but they are trustworthy. And that trustworthiness has been earned.

The advent of artificial intelligence will change education, but it will not change the fundamental educational equation: Learning is a product of what students do. As Charles William Eliot wrote over a century and a half ago, “A mind must work to grow.” Add AI to lecture and you have a prescription for disaster. But engage students in active... See more

When it comes to learning something new, depth beats breadth.

In both fields, players tend to get attached to fancy techniques and fail to recognize that subtle internalization and refinement is much more important than the quantity of what is learned .... It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery

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