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The Human Part
The Slow Work of Becoming Thoughtful We are entering a strange moment in human history. For the first time, the gap between looking intelligent and deeply understanding something is becoming almost invisible. AI can…
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Trustworthy Signals of Capability
Why visibility isn’t enough—and what we can actually trust now For years, we’ve been told to make thinking visible. It’s good advice. It’s grounded in learning science. It improves instruction. But in an AI-mediated…
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When the Work Stops Proving the Thinking
The SIGNAL Lens for Trustworthy Judgment in an AI-Mediated World We have a trust problem. For a long time, our systems worked because we believed the work people produced reflected their thinking. That assumption…
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Making Judgment Visible: A Model for Designing Observable Thinking
In a previous piece, I explored a shift that has become increasingly difficult to ignore: the work students produce no longer reliably reveals the thinking behind it. That post focused on the why. This…
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What does it actually mean to make judgment visible?
For a long time, we have operated under a quiet but powerful assumption: that the work someone produces is, more or less, a reflection of what they understand. Not perfectly, of course, but reliably…
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The Work Has Stopped Proving the Thinking
A shift is happening in how we understand evidence of learning. This piece explores why—and what it requires of us as designers. The Work Has Stopped Proving the Thinking And once you notice it,…
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Four Conditions of Real Engagement
Introduction Engagement is one of the most overused and underdefined words in education. It gets mistaken for noise. For participation. For novelty. For compliance wrapped in energy. But engagement is not about keeping students…
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The SIGNAL Framework: Designing for Visible Thinking in the AI Era
For a long time, we’ve treated student work as a proxy for thinking. Essay = understandingProject = masteryDiscussion post = engagement And for the most part, that worked. Because producing those artifacts required the…
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Judgment-Centered Design
Judgment-Centered Design A framework for making student thinking visible in the age of AI This framework adapts the DECIDE decision-making model (Mintzberg et al., 1976; later variations across disciplines) for use in instructional design…