11. AI and What Are We Teaching?

In this second of two episodes about artificial intelligence and teaching writing, I continue exploring an important concept in cognitive psychology about learning--that the mind must focus on what we want it to learn. The same is true of teaching--if we want students to learn something, we have to decide what we want the focus of our teaching to be. This episode provides a discussion of choices about where to focus our teaching energy and a story from Make it Stick that helps explain why.