@MPI_EVA_Leipzig based project. Educational innovation research for understanding the #human condition. #OpenEvo #EvoKids #eMu #GlobalESD
Leipzig, Germany
Joined October 2015
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The @globalcurri project invites to an online seminar on globalization’s ethical implications on curricula on Tuesday, September 12, 2023, at 10 am (GMT). Hear what they've found re pedagogy in China and in India.
To join, please contact Tommi Lehtonen.
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What do you think a Neanderthal ate for dinner? Scientists at @MPI_EVA_Leipzig were curious about this, so they studied ancient teeth to learn more! Read about what they found in our new adapted article: sciencejournalforkids.org/ar… @Klervia_Jaouen
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Evolution is not prospective—it can't foresee future benefits. So why have species—over and over—undergone major changes to how they process information? Why make those leaps?
Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ Andrew Barron!
disi.org/the-five-portals-of…
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The number line as a metaphor helped make zero more concrete and easily transmissible even to children. Number lines work by mapping numbers not to objects but to movement and position, but they also revealed the negative numbers, which are not otherwise intuitive! 8/
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Your head is filled with entire analogies, metaphors, epistemologies, and tools that you once learned and now effortlessly use for thinking. It's how you cook, how you count, and why you think invisible germs are a good explanation for disease. But invisible spirits are not. 2/
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🚨New paper on "What makes us smart?" w/ @johenrich
Unpacked in my soon-to-be-released book, "A Theory of Everyone"
Take home: Studying hardware won't help you understand the capabilities of pivot tables in Excel nor Code Interpreter in ChatGPT.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… 1/
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Now available for preorder, our new book The Science of Children’s Wellbeing! On shelves Nov this year. Sooooo excited!! @nichooper7 @CorinnaGrindle Freddy Jackson-Brown & Russ Hancock routledge.com/The-Science-of… #twitterEPs
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Major funding opportunity for African PIs, based in sub-Saharan Africa, who received their PhDs within the last 10 years!
Max Planck-Humboldt call to establish Research Units in sub-Saharan Africa in collaboration with a Max Planck Institute.
Funding of 150k Euros per year for 5 years. Deadline: Oct 15.
More info: shorturl.at/kmwKQ
Feel free to get in touch with us if interested
Very happy to announce our latest publication!
We share a design study of a pre-service teacher education module for teaching evolution across the curriculum in primary school contexts! Connect with us if you want to run the module at your university.
mdpi.com/2227-7102/13/8/797
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Can large language models be used as scientific models for studying human cognition? Here's my argument they can, with Theory of Mind as a case study: psyarxiv.com/wxt69
The key point: for LLMs to be good models, they must be openly accessible to researchers.
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Do growth mindset interventions impact students’ academic achievement?
A meta-analysis (63 studies, N=97,672), found major flaws in study design, analysis & reporting
The overall effect (d=.05) was nonsignificant after correcting for publication bias! psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-…
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This month we’re going to be exploring one of our priority areas - #DiverseIntelligences!
But what do we mean by this? Check out our thread below as we dive into this topic👇
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🚨📜 Our new paper is out! @jadasenka, @DudaRomain, Ghislain Loubelo, Jerome Lewis & I examine the harms and benefits of a school system designed for BaYaka children.
liverpooluniversitypress.co.… (English)
liverpooluniversitypress.co.… (French)
youtube.com/watch?v=aB8VH0tx… (by @DudaRomain)
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Fascinating: Risk-taking in chimpanzees mirrors risk-taking in humans: It’s a stable individual trait; it’s more common in males than females; and it peaks in early adulthood. doi.org/10.1177/095679762211…
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The Homework Apocalypse is coming this Fall.
AI completely changes how students will relate to homework like essays, problem sets & readings. And it isn’t just because of cheating (though that happens too). Some examples, and thoughts about what to do: oneusefulthing.org/p/the-hom…
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More evidence that chimpanzees reason about different possibilities!
Using a new paradigm, we found that chimpanzees prepare for alternative possible outcomes. Paper out @royalsociety doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2023.01…
Here is Okech protecting two possible targets from a competitor
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Fears of plagiarism have justifiably exploded since ChatGPT dropped last November. It's not just that ChatGPT & other generative AI are super accessible & capable, but our new preprint shows that it's also that copying from them just feels less wrong. psyarxiv.com/na3wb 🧵
✨🤖 New preprint 🤖✨We show that people view plagiarizing AI-generated content as less unethical and more permissible than human-generated content, both for themselves and when judging the actions of others
w/ @StephMTully & @azimshariff
psyarxiv.com/na3wb
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🎉 Book Cover Reveal! 🎉
I am so excited that I can officially unveil the book covers for my new book “A Theory of Everyone”. 📚
I'll be talking a lot more about the book between now and September. All retweets, likes, and other help getting the book out to your networks would mean a lot to me!
Press release: thebookseller.com/rights/bas…
Pre-order link: linktr.ee/theoryofeveryone
#BookRecommendations #bookcover #TheoryOfEveryone
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Learning is boosted by curiosity. The act of asking good questions about what you don’t know is incredibly helpful.
This careful study on children shows that AI can actually help kids figure out how to ask better questions, which helps them learn. arxiv.org/abs/2211.14228
