Category: Pedagogy

Carl Hendrick — The Blind Regulator: Ashby’s Law and the Unavoidable Logic of Instructional Design

by David Labaree, posted in Curriculum, Pedagogy, School reform, Schooling

This post is an essay by Carl Hendrick -- The Blind Regulator:  Ashby's Law and the Unavoidable Logic of Instructional Design.  It appeared in his Substack, The Learning Dispatch, which I highly recommend.  Here's a link to the original. In it he addresses a central problem facing systems of instruction.  Here's the short version:  "If learners … Continue reading Carl Hendrick — The Blind Regulator: Ashby’s Law and the Unavoidable Logic of Instructional Design

Steven Mintz — Learning to Write Like AI, and Then Beyond It

by David Labaree, posted in Academic writing, Pedagogy, Teaching, Writing, Writing Class

This post is a recent essay by Steven Mintz about how to teach students to write effectively.  It appeared in his Substack, which I strongly recommend.  Here's a link to the original.  It's a natural follow-up to my last post. "The Five-Paragraph Fetish."  He talks about the difference between teaching writing based on rules compared to … Continue reading Steven Mintz — Learning to Write Like AI, and Then Beyond It