Jeff Greene

Screenshot of the title page of an article published in the journal "Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition" titled "Deliberate Memory Strategy Development: The Interplay of Children’s Self-Regulated Learning Abilities and Teachers’ Cognitive Processing Language."

Important study suggesting a link between teachers' use of language rich in strategy suggestions, metacognitive references, and discussion of memory and students' better self-regulated learning behavior growth across first and second grade. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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The End of Independent Thought? Podcast Episode · Authenticating Intelligence Podcast with Stephen Aguilar · March 3 · 44m

Really insightful podcast with @stephenaguilar.com and @galesinatra.bsky.social. Good discussion of how #GenAI can produce conceptual change and the identity and self-perception factors that significantly drive that change (or lack thereof).

What the Learning Sciences Says About Learning with Generative AI. YouTube video by Jeff Greene

I gave a talk today on learning sciences research and what I think it says (or not) about learning with Generative AI. I decided to record a version and post. I don't claim to have covered everything or to represent the field. I'd welcome constructive feedback. youtu.be/BNAObJqkmx0

Nice overview of various approaches to conceptualizing how people decide whether a claim can be considered true and if so, how (e.g., correspondence, coherence, pragmatism). I'd be excited to see these researchers intersect with the epistemic cognition literature. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

What the Learning Sciences Says About Learning with Generative AI. YouTube video by Jeff Greene

I gave a talk today on learning sciences research and what I think it says (or not) about learning with Generative AI. I decided to record a version and post. I don't claim to have covered everything or to represent the field. I'd welcome constructive feedback. youtu.be/BNAObJqkmx0

Today I am living my best life.

A Systematic Review on Learning-Related Emotion Regulation: Academic Emotions and their Regulation - Educational Psychology Review Educational Psychology Review - Academic emotions play a vital role in learning due to their influence on motivation, behaviors in learning processes, and learning outcomes. Given the importance of...

As someone who studies self-regulated learning, I know I don't pay attention to emotion regulation as much as I should. So I'm grateful for work like this, that forces me to attend to this important aspect of regulation and academic success.#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

The End of Independent Thought? YouTube video by Authenticating Intelligence with Stephen Aguilar

Can AI actually help us understand controversial topics, or is it just making things harder? I'm joined by learning expert @galesinatra.bsky.social to bridge the gap between complex ideas and artificial intelligence.

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Fascinating, thanks! “The AI companies didn’t focus on PDF, because PDF is very hard, until they realized that, well, it turns out a lot of the really high-quality stuff is in fact in PDF, and so now we have to deal with it.”

This makes me wonder about ASReview and other apps.

I’m really interested in this. I’d love to hear more about what you are doing. Is the coding for research purposes?

...3) Using AI-based tools to augment human intelligence: There's promise here (e.g., using AI to help humans determine the order of abstracts to screen for lit reviews).

In sum, when people ask "Is AI useful for research?" my answer is: it depends. (2/2)

Three thoughts on #AI and research:

1) Querying #GenAI models: not helpful. They lack sufficient access to the literature.
2) Using #GenAI to synthesize docs I provide: Perhaps helpful as a starting point, but copyright and privacy issues preclude doing this... (1/2)

We try to help our friends to the north whenever we can. Bless their hearts. :)

Home - Parr Center/IZEW Workshop on AI, Ethics, and Education About the workshop The workshop will take place on March 3–4, 2026, at UNC–Chapel Hill. Over two days, participants will examine how moral reasoning, philosophical inquiry, and the learning sciences…

Excited to attend and present at this workshop on AI, Ethics, and Education! I'll be talking about what the learning sciences have to say about AI and education.
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“The workers who use AI best will deploy human judgment to analyze and evaluate information…they will be able to listen as well as to communicate. Their relentless curiosity will be grounded in intellectual humility, while their ethical behavior will require moral courage.”

Sigh. *This research seems…

The question here is what would've happened in the control group if they too had received dedicated, full-time staff to support their teaching efforts. This is research seems to suffer from a "media comparison" flaw, outlined by Weidlich et al among others. (2/2) doi.org/10.1111/jcal...

In-school supervised EdTech support produces massive learning gains: A Khan Academy field experiment in India Personalised tutoring is known to improve student performance, but effective tutoring programmes are expensive and difficult to scale. Computer-assisted learning could offer tutoring-like…

"Treatment schools received dedicated lab-in-charges whose full-time job was ensuring high-fidelity implementation...Control schools retained full Khan Academy access and initial training but lacked this dedicated implementation staff." I'm skeptical because...(1/2) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

A skill I've had to learn the hard way: saying no to very cool opportunities when those opportunities would get in the way of my core work.

DOGE smashed federal education research. Here’s how a consultant told the Education Department to fix it. A new report finds that too often the Institute of Education Sciences has produced redundant or low-priority work. It also defends the federal role in education research.

“They’ve let so many people go. I’m worried we’ve done tremendous damage to our ability to recruit people into government work.” - @carajackson.bsky.social www.chalkbeat.org/2026/02/27/e...

Very true. Reminds me of a story from a philosophy prof who told me they didn't see a lot of critical thinking in their class until they asked about the previous night's CSI. Then there was a lot of critical inquiry! :)

Learning to Think Critically | 10 | v3 | Handbook of Research on Learn Critical thinking (CT) is increasingly recognized as an essential skill for education, employment, and civic engagement in the 21st century. With the rapid

Reformers have called for better critical thinking education to help people deal w/modern challenges (#GenAI, social media, post-truth world). This book chapter expertly discusses what critical thinking is, how to measure it, & how to teach it re: these challenges. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Learning to Think Critically | 10 | v3 | Handbook of Research on Learn Critical thinking (CT) is increasingly recognized as an essential skill for education, employment, and civic engagement in the 21st century. With the rapid

Reformers have called for better critical thinking education to help people deal w/modern challenges (#GenAI, social media, post-truth world). This book chapter expertly discusses what critical thinking is, how to measure it, & how to teach it re: these challenges. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

What I think is more interesting is the parent vibe-coding a solution for their child. Not the particular solution itself but that a parent could do this. It suggests greater access to software solutions for non-programmers, and that could be powerful. If it works.

China’s Parents Are Outsourcing the Homework Grind to A.I.

Thinking of #GenAI as a replacement for any aspect of education is making the same mistake we’ve made in the past (see MOOCs). Whether GenAI can bring something new, useful, and reliable, is yet unknown. These attempts seem…meh.
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Yes! The word is that a second season was greenlit but no timeline. Got my fingers crossed and my letter to Netflix ready to go. More Dept Q!

Watch Dept. Q | Netflix Official Site A brash but brilliant cop becomes head of a new police department, where he leads an unlikely team of misfits in solving Edinburgh's cold cases.

Well, this was tremendous. www.netflix.com/title/81487660

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Theory What is a cognitive scientific theory?

some resources for cognitive scientists — especially for junior scholars who ask me wonderful questions and want to learn more — on theorising and metatheorising olivia.science/theory/ (not 100% finished & more to come, but all my work is freely available here: olivia.science#publications as usual)