Posts tagged learning-sciences

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8 October 2026 — Learning to learn, and what games are good for A change to League of Legends replay downloads got me thinking about learning how to learn. Factorio and Rocket League gave me short, concrete experiences of getting better at something. A game-learning study makes me question how much of that improvement I can credit to the games.
7 October 2026 — Why people walk looking at their phones Walking to a lecture hall an hour early, reading email I could have read sitting down, I started wondering why a freed-up attention gets filled that way. ICAP tells me scrolling is the engagement least likely to teach me anything, and says nothing about why it is the easiest to start. My working answer is context: a familiar walk builds an expectation, so a small departure from it is worth noticing, and an app replaces the context faster than one can form. This is a line of thinking that needs a literature review, including work that would contradict it.