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Shayan Doroudi @EdTechMuser
Joined August 2019
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James Evans
@profjamesevans
May 8
The "does creativity decline with age?" debate has been muddled by a category error. There isn't one kind of creativity. There are two...and they move in opposite directions across a career.
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Just a few days ago, I started going through “The Concept of Education in Islam” by al-Attas with great interest. His ideas have had profound influence on scholarship in Islamic education, though I question the extent to which they’ve been actualized in practice (so far).
Yusuf / Cat Stevens
@YusufCatStevens
Mar 8
God bless the departed soul of Professor Naquib Al-Attas. We are deeply in loss for his passing. His contribution to the Islamization of knowledge was unparalleled. It was Prof. Naquib's inspiration which laid the ground upon which I established the Islamia school in 1983. Prof. Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas was deeply involved in the 1977 First World Conference on Muslim Education in Makkah, the papers of which became the foundation for our curriculum research. May he join the great company of the prophets and learned as one of the shining exponents of God's Holy Book. #Peace
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It was an honor to be able to give a talk for this symposium on Justice-Oriented Visions of AI and Education at the Northwestern Symposium on Education, AI, and the Learning Sciences. Talk linked here: youtube.com/watch?feature=sh… 1/4

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I do so by turning to historical approaches to AI (broadly conceived), education, and social justice that are largely forgotten. Namely, I briefly touch upon the work of Seymour Papert, Heinz von Foerster, and (even more briefly) Ivan Illich. 3/4
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I end by discussing a common inspiration in Papert and von Foerster's work: Warren McCulloch's notion of heterarchy. McCulloch described how a six-node neural network could give rise to a heterarchy of values. 4/4
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Yusuf Ahmad@shaanmasala
4 Sep 2025
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."
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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!
Poster titled "What Perceptrons Might Tell Us About Our Own Abilities." Presents an argument that theoretical results from Minsky and Papert's 1969 book Perceptrons might have surprising implications for our own capabilities and limitations in visual perception and learning.

ALT Poster titled "What Perceptrons Might Tell Us About Our Own Abilities." Presents an argument that theoretical results from Minsky and Papert's 1969 book Perceptrons might have surprising implications for our own capabilities and limitations in visual perception and learning.
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Aaron Maté
@aaronjmate
30 Jul 2025
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/int…
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RT @judyefan: On 08/02, @JunyiChu @ArnavVerma0_0 @parastooabtahi will share what they've learned about puzzles/fun multimodal reasoning/c…
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Chaz Firestone@chazfirestone
25 Jun 2025
AI in the wild? This tray tissue I was given at a restaurant is full of errors and hallucinations…!
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I first stumbled upon @peterhreynolds' The Word Collector in a bookstore and it became one of my favorite books to read to my daughter. —— I had seen this drawing of Seymour Papert many times on @garystager's website, but until recently I didn't realize who the artist was... 1/7
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Jerome's word collection is a kind of microworld. A microworld for playing with words. Interestingly, prior to the emergence of the turtle, Logo was also used as a microworld for playing with words (hence Logo from the Greek logos—"word"). 6/7
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Thinking ish-ly also resonates with Papert, who (in contrast to his colleague Patrick Suppes) advocated for being vaguely right rather than precisely wrong. 7/7
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Congratulations to @santiagojedar @JuanCamiloCri10 @andydebarros from @UCIEducation and @kelley_fong from @UCIsociology!
NAEd@NAEduc
5 Jun 2025
Congratulations to the 2025 NAEd/Spencer Fellowship Recipients! - mailchi.mp/naeducation.org/c…
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Rutger Bregman
@rcbregman
15 May 2025
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.
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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?
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