Author: jamierhouse
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Thoughts on “Performing AI Literacy” by Ben Williamson
I have been following Williamson for a few months now. He is a voice for how we need to hit pause and reconsider our priors, so we can steer education in the right direction as technology with all the good and bad becomes pervasive. in his article, Performing AI Literacy, Williamson critiques the OECD’s new
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The AAK Framework for Authentic Knowledge Acquisition in the AI Era
How can we promote authentic knowledge acquisition for students in the AI era—especially in research projects? Our latest betterthinkers post introduces the AI to Authentic Knowledge (AAK) Framework. The AAK Framework helps educators and students balance AI tools with deep, critical thinking. Explore strategies for fostering meaningful knowledge acquisition. Equal Knowledge? Imagine you are attending
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Brief Book Review-Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone by Minna Salami
Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone by Minna Salami My rating: 3 of 5 stars I really appreciate the perspective I gained from this book. As someone with a background in social epistemology, it was nice to read a book that aims to challenge the western-dominated/reductive view of knowledge. There are good examples
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Fusing Knowledge with Care
I am not just talking about how we can get students to care about topics, but to embody a notion of knowledge, knowledge acquisition, knowledge production, or knowledge demonstration that is bound by care. A notion of knowledge that is required to have elements of care, meaning, or emotion if it were to pass a…
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The Nature of Testimony
Problems for Hearer Testimony: Can There Be Testimony Without Speaker-Intention? My MSc dissertation in philosophy focussed on testimony, or natural testimony, the concept of knowledge as conveyed through the words of others. I had the opportunity to discuss my conceptual analysis on what testimony is like and not like, with Jonathon Hardy on his podcast Another
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The Threat of Counterfeit People and Emotive Thinking: Strategies for Epistemic Well-being
You are increasingly interacting not just with false information, but with false people online. In other words, you are interacting with counterfeit people. What is the concept of counterfeit people? What frames of mind can we cultivate into students and society to manage counterfeit people and ensure epistemic well-being? Counterfeit People The Problem With Counterfeit
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What is the Epistemic Well-Being Project?
My notion of what Epistemic Well-being is a working definition that will be revisited as I evolve this writing project. The basic notion of Epistemic Well-being is: When we know something or are granted access to knowing something, it is good for the well-being of ourselves, families, friends, and communities. A more comprehensive explanation: Knowledge
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Explicit Recognition and Modeling of Thinking Verbs to Support Student Understanding
In this post, I share how I guide student understanding of what thinking looks like at various levels of complexity in order to develop their conceptual understanding. Let’s treat thinking as an action. Kind of like walking. But now consider the different ways we can walk. One can skip, jaunt, stumble, limp, waddle, swagger, meander,
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Justified True Belief
One of the most common views of what defines knowledge is the idea of justified true belief. Take the statement. There is cow in the field. Justified – You can see the cow directly, and indeed it is the field True – It seems that reality of the situation is that there is a cow
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