N Shackleton-Jones

Author of 'How People Learn' First general theory of learning & cognition. Founder Writes for posterity.

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How People Learn: Affective Context - The First General Theory of Learning https://t.co/D8k8Iv6Ulh

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@DrLisaBosman I agree, but I think the problem is: ‘how do we create experiences from which students learn, rather than persisting with those from which they do not?’

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No, You Don't Have Thoughts. https://t.co/6IX2G0Ob8I a long form thing I did on cognition, AI, angry young men & language with my friend @jack__lawro

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@DonaldClark Still struggling to connect it to real world use:
- can’t interact with my screen (so can’t weed out spam)
- not agentic (yet)
- did a crap job of reformatting slides
- not good with ‘messy’ contexts (like most AI)
- good chat companion 🤔

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@DeborahMeaden He’s eating the pieces.

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@DonaldClark They don’t give that impression here:

https://t.co/5cYWUEIfOK

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@DonaldClark Well, you’re straw-manning it a bit now, but look:

Sexual assaults of women are on the rise, some estimates have 1/4 women victim at some time. For all forms of violent assault 95-99% are by men.

It’s good to ask ‘where is it coming from?’

No-one is answering ‘nerdy 13yr olds’

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@DonaldClark Well, feel like we flogged this one to death, but for sure it’s a familiar story about women being on the receiving end of male violence - & my sympathies don’t lie with the men.

Did a bit on this a while back: https://t.co/Cpi9A46e2o

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@DonaldClark 1 in 6 boys aged 6-15 have a positive view of Andrew Tate who has talked about hitting & choking women.

You might prefer the protagonist to be another race or class, but for sure I’m not sitting here thinking ‘it’s a working class northern bloke problem’

https://t.co/82yaHPKQio

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@DonaldClark Yeah, but that was the point I guess: make it any minority demographic & it’s not ‘our’ problem - it’s ‘theirs’.

I think the meanest thing I could say about it is that it’s the longest Public Service Announcement I’ve ever watched.

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@DonaldClark “He never left his room. He’d come home slam the door - straight up the stairs on the computer.
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We couldn’t do nothing about that. All kids are like that now aren’t they.”

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@DonaldClark I mean the shots are an hour long; anyone screws up & you have to start again.

It see a familiar tale of an angry young man & a contemporary twist where he’s radicalized online for profit.

For me it’s about how tech can be used to harvest our kids’ lives from within our homes

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@DonaldClark I’ve got less patience for people who blame others’ for their shortcomings: men whining about loneliness, loafers blaming immigrants. Always respected hard work whatever the class.

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@DonaldClark Technically it’s great. The acting is good, the themes important. I generally see worse at the cinema.

I’m not sure I envy grads: up to their eyeballs in debt for a degree they’ll never use, in jobs soon to be replaced by AI: plumbing - not so much.

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@DonaldClark We see different things when we see the same things. It didn’t occur to me that it was about ‘working class’ folk, nor white folk, nor northern folk. It seems to me like a tale of how kids can be shaped by what they experience online, rather than at home or at school.

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@DonaldClark Not a fan of demonization; there is a rise in misogynistic attitudes amongst young UK men & SoMe is a contributing factor.

Probably you took time to talk to your lads about what they see online, I think this is a reminder for more parents to do the same https://t.co/ymXR8t2Ubw

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@lumilaulu2 @politicsusa46 Did Americans unite? Or just conform? When Russia invaded Ukraine Polish people drove to the border in their 1000s to offer food & supplies. In the coming months 1M+ Ukrainians were welcomed, many into people’s homes. Are Americans uniting to stop Ukrainians being expelled now?

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@politicsusa46 Thanks for sharing.

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@politicsusa46 Good hypothesis: but Beyond the Shock Doctrine - what does it achieve? Crisis capitalism just increases the wealth gap. What then?