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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 3m

The findings here (#GenAI can help or harm learning - it’s in how you use it) are unsurprising to those of us who have studied learning technology. What I find interesting is how the findings are communicated here. Is this effective socioscientific communication? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Will A.I. Make Your Brain Lazy? (Gift Article)

We’re starting to learn more about how the technology can change us.

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 11m

I’d like to see more research on children’s perceptions of their parents’ tech use and how those perceptions relate to the children’s well-being. This study suggests there’s a negative relationship - it’s worth studying more. wapo.st/3Vl2PB9

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Opinion | ‘Marginalized and ignored’: How kids react to parents stuck on screens

Teens who perceive parents as being distracted by their phones may be more likely to have long-term emotional problems.

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 11h

"The foundation takes careful measures to keep its process shrouded in secrecy, including using ruses to get grantees on the phone for a private conversation." From now on, every time my phone rings, I'm going to answer, "Hello - is this the MacArthur Foundation?!?" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/a...

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MacArthur Foundation Announces 2026 ‘Genius Grant’ Winners (Gift Article)

The 20 fellowship recipients across the arts, humanities and sciences will each receive an $800,000, no-strings-attached stipend for their work.

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 22h

"Yes, and" is the answer here. Yes, writing is not the only way to teach critical thinking. And: argumentation skills (including domain-specific ones) are a big part of critical thinking that can and should be taught multiple ways: through writing, discourse, etc. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 23h

Pretesting and prequestioning are helpful techniques because they increase what you learn initially, not because they change the forgetting curve. That said, I wonder if repeated pretesting and prequestioning on cumulative, related ideas would lead to changes in forgetting? doi.org/10.1037/mac0...

Screenshot of the title page of an article published in the "Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition" titled "The Temporal Dynamics of the Pretesting and Prequestioning Effects."

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Andrew Bacher-Hicks @abacherhicks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

K-12 researchers! Take a look at the new Arnold Ventures RFP supporting causal research on the impacts of K-12 school policies. LOIs are due Nov. 13. Please share widely!

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Matthew A Kraft @matthewakraft.com · 28/09/2026

New @nytimes.com piece ranks 30 education interventions on both effectiveness & costs. For me, the key takeaway is NOT about what academics (including myself) rated as most effective or least costly. It is about the decision making process districts use. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

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30 Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by Experts

Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Treatment students need continued support: "We find most support for mechanisms explaining fade-out by the treatment group being unable to build on the skills acquired in the intervention and negative side effects on parental and school investments." doi.org/10.1037/bul0...

Screenshot of the title page of an article published in the journal "Psychological Bulletin" titled: "On the Mechanisms of Intervention Effect Fade-Out: A Meta-Analytic Review of Interventions Targeting At-Risk Students’ Achievement."

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'd like to congratulate my most recent Reviewer 2 for Reviewer 2ing harder than any Reviewer 2 has Reviewer 2ed in many years.

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Moira Rose: "Judging, Judging So Hard!"

ALT: Moira Rose: "Judging, Judging So Hard!"

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“My team does use A.I. to help clients implement at scale the designs we’ve created. That is A.I. doing what it’s good at: taking something already defined by a human and iterating on it efficiently. Where we won’t use A.I. is during the discovery, listening and thinking phase.” Beautiful.

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Opinion | A.I. Shortcuts Are Ruining How We Think

Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving.

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Saturday mornings are for outdoor markets and donuts with @gotowerscope.com @gotowerscope.com

Me and Mira Brancu in a selfie with donuts

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Impressive special issue focused on individual differences in learning: conditional learning systems, personalization architectures, cognitive foundations, AI ecologies, equity mechanisms, flourishing trajectories, methodological infrastructure, and governance and guardrails. doi.org/10.1016/j.li...

Screenshot of the title page of an article published in the journal "Learning and Individual Differences" titled "The road ahead: How the future of learning is shaped through individual differences."

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This reminds me of bottle rockets. They are basically a firecracker on a long stick. You'd put the stick in the ground, light it, and it would shoot up into the air and explode. Very foolishly, when I was a teenager we'd hold them by the stick, light them, and then spin them up in the air...

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I fear this author is going to get roasted, but I think this is a helpful and honest article about the current challenges facing education and expert training. We need better conversations about how to train people to be knowledgeable enough to manage a powerful but… www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

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Opinion | A.I. Has Made Me a Better Doctor. It’s Made Med Students Worse. (Gift Article)

I’m confident in my mastery over what doctors do — and less confident about my continued mastery of an ever-evolving universe of facts.

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Companies have a “jarring” skepticism of higher ed, the authors found, thanks to a new generation of degree holders who lack key skills like handling uncertainty, compromising, and absorbing feedback." Those skills can be taught - look to the learning sciences and expertise literatures.

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Companies Are Skeptical of New Graduates. Cornell Has Ideas to Fix That.

Colleges need to start teaching soft skills, or students will keep falling short in the workplace, argues a Cornell report on “the future of the American university.”

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cool study showing how well students regulate their emotions (or fail to) in response to an actual failure predicts self-reported learning from failure and engagement. Overall this was well-designed and executed, looking at understudied phenomena. doi.org/10.1016/j.le...

Screenshot of the title page of an article published in the journal "Learning and Instruction" titled "Emotion regulation and learning from academic failures."

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes to all this. “AI” isn’t one thing and we need to be more precise in how we talk about it. AI companies should be held responsible for harms their tools cause. And we need better narratives for what AI can and should be than “Superhuman God.” They are tools. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/o...

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Opinion | Dear Congress: Here’s What to Ask A.I. Leaders (Gift Article)

This is what Congress needs to do to reign in frontier A.I. development.

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Articles like the one discussed by @janerosenzweig.bsky.social and linked below (h/t @benpatrickwill.bsky.social) make me wonder how much #GenAI companies test their tools in real classrooms. Ed tech researchers and teachers know a lot about what does/not work - why not work with them?

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“In terms of magnitude,” Lawrence Warren, one of the three Census Bureau economists who authored the paper, said of the employment and earnings declines, “we feel comfortable saying this is kind of in the same ballpark as the earnings effect of a Great Recession.”

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The Most AI-Exposed College Graduates Are Entering Another Great Recession

A new Census Bureau report offers concrete evidence of how certain majors are faring in the job market — which may shift what students choose to study.

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This study shows the existing research on human-AI synergy likely underestimates its potential because the studies do not put humans in the best position to succeed. They provide recommendations for changing that, to which I would add the growing area of research on hybrid-human-AI collaboration.

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Human learning is an understudied but promising lever for boosting human–AI synergy | PNAS

Humans collaborating with AI hold the promise of achieving superior outcomes compared to either acting alone (i.e., human–AI synergy). However, the...

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Good summary by @caseynewton.bsky.social that hits at a critical question: what are the compelling consumer use cases for #GenAI agents? I struggle with that. What do I do for myself now that an agent could do as well, and are the benefits worth the risks? 🤷 www.platformer.news/meta-muse-co...

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Muse is having a moment

Are consumer agents the future — or a mirage?

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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New paper! Despite qualitative researchers claiming that generalizability is not a goal, their published work does indeed contain generalizable claims. We document this and provide recommendations for how all researchers can better calibrate their generalizability claims. doi.org/10.1177/2515...

article header for, "Qualitative Researchers Can and Do Generalize: Generalizability Claims in Qualitative Psychological Research". Metascience!

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dear Publishers: Few people read printed journals any longer and vertically-oriented tables are a scourge. Please make all tables horizontal. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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Capisce Owl Tilts Head Curiously

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It makes sense that when students try to engage agentically in science classrooms, how the teacher responds can affect students' motivation. But I haven't seen such detailed mixed methods analyses before. Student extrinsic motivation goes up when teachers do not support agentic engagement.

Screenshot of an article published in the "Journal of Educational Psychology" titled "Patterns of Agentic Engagement, Autonomy Support, and Extrinsic Motivation in Middle School Science."

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 22/09/2026

My department and college are searching for FOUR new tenure-track assistant professor colleagues! Please share, and application reviews begin October 15.

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Kou Murayama @koumurayama.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sorry I am no longer an active user but just post this job alert: With Peter Dayan and Michiko Sakaki, we are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who could work on cognitive computational modeling wth digital education data. Come to Tübingen!!: uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Modeling of Digital Education Data

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Could not have asked for a better host at WashU and around St. Louis than Andy Butler. Great day at the workshop, fun meals with him and his advisees, a fascinating tour of the city, and to cap it off a St. Louis City SC game! Don't tell anybody, but St. Louis is awesome.

Selfie of me and Andy Butler below the St. Louis Arch.

Picture of the field right before a St. Louis City SC game, with fire cannons.

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This review of developmental aspects of self-regulated learning is much-needed and welcome. I share the authors' concern that any apparent drop in SRL strategy use in adolescence is very likely due to measurement issues. We need better SRL measurement in longitudinal designs. doi.org/10.1016/j.le...

Screenshot of the title page of an article published in the journal "Learning and Instruction" titled "A systematic review on the development of self-regulated learning."

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“I don't think this is really sustainable because of the efficiency gain” that AI offers, says Thom. Any mathematicians—especially early-career researchers—risk being “isolated” if they don’t use AI to accelerate their work, he adds. Open source run on prem, perhaps? www.wired.com/story/mathem...

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Mathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It

Powerful AI models have created an existential risk to the field, but researchers can’t stop relying on them because they’re too useful.

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hey look, it's me on why teachers still (and will always!) matter in the age of AI. youtu.be/eOlbeMU1j9w?...

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Why Teachers Still Matter in the Age of AI

YouTube video by LEAD Graduate School & Research Network

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This has some good suggestions about how to break the multitasking habit. It’s hard. Takes multiple strategies, done for long periods of time, with support. But it can be done. wapo.st/4y2grQ7

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Analysis | ‘Toxic multitasking’ is breaking your brain. Here’s how to take control.

Doing more than one thing at once, especially on screens, can become addictive, which harms the functioning of our brain and nervous system.

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I agree with most of this, and my disagreements are not substantive enough to deny endorsing it. I don't think a lot of the jump scares around #GenAI are warranted. But these systems can cause harm and need to be regulated by the people. "The nuclear analogy is useful because..."

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Opinion | Humanity Has Avoided Apocalypse Before. Let’s Do It Again. (Gift Article)

It is up to all of us, through our government, to shape what A.I. becomes.

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

💯 "We know what to do: incubate open-access A.I. models, regulate technologies before they go rogue, hold the people who allow them to go rogue accountable if they do and protect the most vulnerable when we, the people, sometimes get it wrong." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/o...

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Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think (Gift Article)

The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Funny enough, the Four Advantages Mollick discusses here align very well with what I've been discussing in recent presentations on #GenAI. In short, GenAI is a tool that augments, but does not replace, human knowledge, expertise, and agency. Self-regulation is needed to leverage these advantages.

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The Overhang

Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Such a joy and an honor to deliver a keynote for the Recentering Student Learning in the Age of AI symposium at Washington University in St. Louis Arts & Sciences! I was so impressed with how they are thinking carefully about how to integrate GenAI thoughtfully into their pedagogy...

Selfie of me in front of a slide that says "WashU Arts & Sciences. AI Perspectives Week. Recentering Student Learning in the Age of AI."

Standing sign that says "+AI Perspectives. An academic initiative building a community that thoughtfully harnesses AI to advance teaching, learning, and discovery."

Title slide to my keynote, titled "How Research in the Learning Sciences Recenters Student Learning with Generative AI."

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So excited to be speaking at this event! My talk will focus on student agency as the key to any decisions we make about #GenAI in higher education. Whether we use it, ban it, or temper it, those decisions must start with: "What will help our students succeed, thrive, and realize their agency?"

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Recentering Student Learning in the Age of AI

A half-day symposium for faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students on how to prioritize, support, and enhance student learning in a world increasingly shaped by AI.

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Some scholars are going to use #GenAI in their workflow. This threatens to create a "scientific monoculture." These authors argue preventing scientific homogenization and exclusion requires people to view GenAI as a tool for epistemic reflexivity and as an object to be examined.

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Epistemic reflexivity for AI-augmented research - Communications Psychology

Using generative AI in science necessitates that institutions and researchers practice epistemic reflexivity to protect intellectual diversity and resist the threat of scientific monoculture. We…

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Excited to see the latest issue of Educational Psychologist published - the first by the new co-editors Krista Muis and Jason Chen! As always, a great set of articles covering procrastination, interleaving, mindsets, and a career award winner! www.tandfonline.com/toc/hedp20/c...

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Educational Psychologist

Issue 61(4)

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 18/09/2026

This is an *excellent* post on cluster analysis. If you ever thought about applying cluster, latent class or latent profile analysis to psychological scales, you absolutely should read this!>

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 18/09/2026

P.S. There is, strangely enough, the notion that cluster analysis is somehow more idiographic, not treating all people as one homogeneous blob. Folks!! Cluster analysis is about sorting people into groups, with group membership having vast implications. This ain't it.

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Is it just me, or are other people noticing a striking rise in bad copyediting in published articles? Just read an article referring to the authors' "hypnotized" effects. As someone who often typos, I sincerely appreciate good copyediting. Bad copyediting makes the journal look bad.

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Kermit The Frog: 'Mistakes Were Made'

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Deans for Impact (DFI) @deansforimpact.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

How do students learn to take charge of their own learning? Drawing on the latest #cogsci research, the Science of Learning, 2nd Ed. breaks down 3 principles for how teachers can support students to learn more effectively and independently over time. 📄 www.deansforimpact.org/tools-and-re...

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Okay wait. I thought #GenAI was going to become conscious, smarter than humans, and take over the world. Now the mice are, too?!?!? join1440.com?user_id=66c4...

Article about how Stanford researchers injected human brain cells into mice brains and they grew and worked but were disposed of before they gained consciousness.

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So pleased to see this article led by Casper Juul published! He did fantastic work interviewing upper-secondary students about how they thought about knowledge across three different subjects, identifying five different onto-epistemic categories these students used to direct their learning.

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Student conceptions of knowing: Onto-epistemic categories of epistemic performance in school subjects

Apt epistemic performance across formalized subject settings requires students to adapt their performance to the norms and practices of each domain. Such navigation plausibly entails the classifica...

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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So many people think that the students who can't pay back their loans are going to like Vassar or Oberlin or even Harvard. In reality they're going to schools like Legends Barber College or Construction Training Center. www.npr.org/2026/09/16/n...

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The modern world, including Generative AI, threaten to homogenize and marginalize people and cultures. In this podcast, I talk to the guest editors of a special issue of Educational Psychologist about the amazing articles addressing these topics, and working toward a better multiple texts future.

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Alexandra List & Jason L. G. Braasch

Dr. Alexandra List and Dr. Jason L. G. Braasch join host Dr. Jeff Greene to discuss a recent Educational Psychologist special issue, “Multiple texts, culture, marginalization, and generative AI.” Sour

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