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ChatGPT "Improves" Critical Thinking in Kids...But Not Really
Dec 9, 2025
1m 42s
Free Your Brain from ChatGPT "Thinking"
Oct 27, 2025
10m 25s
Is Higher Ed to Collapse from A.I.?
Sep 9, 2025
43m 44s
Get Recognized for Thinking Outside the Box
Sep 4, 2025
6m 07s
Did the APA just end critical thinking in colleges?
Sep 2, 2025
8m 19s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 12/9/25 |  ChatGPT "Improves" Critical Thinking in Kids...But Not Really✨ | critical thinkingAI+3 | — | ChatGPTActual Intelligence+1 | — | ChatGPTcritical thinking+3 | — | 1m 42s | |
| 10/27/25 |  Free Your Brain from ChatGPT "Thinking"✨ | independent thinkingartificial intelligence+3 | — | ChatGPTLarge Language Model | — | ChatGPTindependent thinking+3 | — | 10m 25s | |
| 9/9/25 |  Is Higher Ed to Collapse from A.I.?✨ | artificial intelligencehigher education+3 | Dr. Robert Neber | Barrett Honors CollegeInside Higher Education+1 | — | artificial intelligencehigher education+3 | — | 43m 44s | |
| 9/4/25 |  Get Recognized for Thinking Outside the Box✨ | innovationproblem-solving+3 | — | — | — | engramcognitive science+3 | — | 6m 07s | |
| 9/2/25 |  Did the APA just end critical thinking in colleges?✨ | critical thinkingeducation+4 | — | American Psychological AssociationMIT | — | APAcritical thinking+4 | — | 8m 19s | |
| 8/25/25 |  Kids Want Off Their Phones. Here's How!✨ | children's developmentunstructured play+4 | — | HarrisThe Atlantic+3 | — | kidsphones+5 | — | 4m 46s | |
| 8/21/25 |  Is ChatGPT Dumbing Down your Kid? New MIT Study Says, “Yes.”✨ | artificial intelligencechild development+3 | — | ChatGPTMIT | — | ChatGPTMIT study+4 | — | 10m 57s | |
| 8/21/25 |  Is ChatGPT Dumbing Down your Kid? A New MIT Study Says, “Yes.”✨ | Artificial Intelligenceeducation+3 | — | ChatGPTMIT | — | ChatGPTMIT study+3 | — | 11m 13s | |
| 8/13/25 |  QUICK TIP: Unlocking Divergent Thinking--The Physical Connection✨ | divergent thinkingcreativity+3 | — | — | — | divergent thinkingcreativity+3 | — | 9m 51s | |
| 2/9/24 |  Headagogy Update!✨ | HeadagogyCritical Thinking+2 | — | The Critical Thinking Institute | — | HeadagogyCritical Thinking Institute+3 | — | 1m 28s | |
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| 11/28/23 |  Thinking Critically in College with Louis Newman | Steve interviews Louis E. Newman, author of Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success. What's the relationship between thinking and studentship? How can we -- and why should we -- move students to think about disciplinarity? Are colleges promoting the thinking of which Newman advises students? And how can they benefit from his ideas regardless? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pearlmanactualintelligence.substack.com | 33m 34s | ||||||
| 3/21/23 |  ChatGPT - A Loaded Blessing In Disguise? | Is ChatGPT friend or foe? Should the whole world, as Australia has done, relegate essay writing to inside classrooms? Is "the academic essay dead"? Or is ChatGPT, as some have contended, a tool for critical thinking that we should embrace as a new ally in teaching students?As Steve discusses, ChatGPT certainly is a revelation, but no one is really talking about why, and it might not be what you expect. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pearlmanactualintelligence.substack.com | 39m 01s | ||||||
| 12/14/22 |  Rubric Nation: Are We Rubricizing Our Humanity (Part 2) | Continuing their discussion of the pedagogical, institutional, and societal implications of rubrics and rubricizing, Joe, Michelle, and Steve get into rubrics and questions of ...privilege and the expression of structuralized racismthe effort to dismantle public education through standardizationhow rubrics as a concept contribute to the undermining of teaching as a profession, and so much more. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pearlmanactualintelligence.substack.com | 36m 13s | ||||||
| 12/7/22 |  Rubric Nation: Are we Rubricizing our Humanity? | Steve and the authors of Rubric Nation -- Michelle Tenam-Zemach and Joseph E. Flynn, Jr. -- get into it about all things rubrics and rubricization, as well as whatever it is that we are doing, good and bad, as an educational system regarding teaching, learning, democracy, assessment, studentship, dialogue, politics, critical thinking, teacher training, privilege, race, class, and our greater (and lesser?) humanity. Spoiler alert: it's "a mess." But that's what makes this discussion particularly deep and interesting. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pearlmanactualintelligence.substack.com | 44m 51s | ||||||
| 11/29/22 |  Frances Valintine: Progressive Teaching; Institutional Shifting | Steve welcomes futurist Frances Valintine: Founder of MindLab--the Best Start-up in Asia Pacific as judged by Steve Wozniak and Sir Richard Branson in 2014. Frances is a member of the New Zealand Hall of Fame for Women Entrepreneurs (2022), and named one of the top 50 EdTech Educators in the World by EdTech International (2016). They discuss progressive teaching practices and the wide-scale implementation of change across New Zealand, and its implications for our conception of educational institutions worldwide. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pearlmanactualintelligence.substack.com | 53m 43s | ||||||
| 11/15/22 |  Academic Rigor-mortis: A possible cure? | Listen for an in-depth discussion of the rigamarole around academic rigor, including what might be a very surprising--though nonetheless perfectly sensible--root of its challenges. Student vs. faculty conceptions of rigorG.I. infections"Summer School" This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pearlmanactualintelligence.substack.com | 47m 44s | ||||||
| 11/1/22 |  NYU's Firing of Dr. Maitland Jones (pt. 2) | Part 2 on Jones's firing, including a cranky look at curious statements by NYU, and an uncomfortable look at time traveling through the academy. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pearlmanactualintelligence.substack.com | 27m 19s | ||||||
| 10/25/22 |  NYU's Firing of Dr. Maitland Jones (pt. 1) | Steve takes an in-depth look at NYU's expedited decision to fire distinguished Organic Chemistry professor, Dr. Maitland Jones, after receiving a petition from students complaining about his course. What's really at the heart of NYU's actions? What role did the petition play? What role should rigor play in education? And what in the world does the movie, Demolition Man, have to do with any of this? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pearlmanactualintelligence.substack.com | 24m 07s | ||||||
| 6/7/22 |  Ungrading through Peer Assessment - A Case Study (Part 2) | Steve welcomes the University of Wyoming's own TK Stoudt and his students, Amy Bezzant, Maddy Davis, and James Roberts. Hear about the triumph (and trials!) of peer assessment from an educator who's newer to implementing it, and from students who encountered it for the first time. What really happens when we give Excalibur to Uryens? Why should you have a campfire in your classroom?Should Maddie marry an NFL player?Learn the answers to all that and more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pearlmanactualintelligence.substack.com | 30m 04s | ||||||
| 5/31/22 |  Ungrading through Peer Assessment - A Case Study (Part 1) | Steve welcomes the University of Wyoming's own TK Stoudt and his students, Amy Bezzant, Maddy Davis, and James Roberts. Hear about the triumph (and trials!) of peer assessment from an educator who's newer to implementing it, and from students who encountered it for the first time. What really happens when we give Excalibur to Uryens? Why should you have a campfire in your classroom?Should Maddie marry an NFL player?Learn the answers to all that and more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pearlmanactualintelligence.substack.com | 28m 52s | ||||||
| 4/26/22 |  Supercourses, with Ken Bain | Ken Bain, author of What the Best College Teachers Do and What the Best College Students Do, joins Headagogy to discuss his latest book, Super Courses: The Future of Teaching and Learning. The discussion with Bain not only delves into examples of these courses and their relationship with problem based learning, but also into critical ideas for teaching and learning, such as why "expectation failure" is so absolutely critical. Learn the steps you need to take to start your own "super course." This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pearlmanactualintelligence.substack.com | 49m 02s | ||||||
| 4/19/22 |  Ungrading through Peer Assessment (Part 3) | In this concluding episode on peer assessment, Steve conveys the research on peer assessment, learning outcomes, and soft skills. There should be no doubts about its value, especially, in the words of Walter Lippman, "It takes wisdom to understand wisdom. The music means nothing if the audience is deaf." This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pearlmanactualintelligence.substack.com | 26m 12s | ||||||
| 4/12/22 |  Ungrading through Peer Assessment (Part 2) | Continuing his assessment into peer assessment as an important method of ungrading, Steve not only talks about how he implements it, but several other important issues, such as how peer assessment:De-emphasizes the focus on gradesRelieves students' stressFosters democratic ideals and an empowered populous, andIMPROVES learning outcomes. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pearlmanactualintelligence.substack.com | 46m 29s | ||||||
| 4/5/22 |  Ungrading Through Peer Assessment (Part 1) | In this first episode of a three part series, Steve delves into the hot topic of "ungrading" with a focus on the particular and unique value that involving students in assessment brings to the greater ungrading discussion. Learn more about grades as the locus of power in academia, the unconscious forces behind grades, students' literal capacity (or lack thereof) to understand grades, the relationship between grades and social constructionism, and, most importantly, the movie, Excalibur. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pearlmanactualintelligence.substack.com | 53m 19s | ||||||
| 3/8/22 |  The Brain Based Classroom with Kieran O'Mahony (part 2) | The continuation of the interview with Kieran O'Mahony. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pearlmanactualintelligence.substack.com | 41m 26s | ||||||
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