Raghav Agrawal

Former Diamond Dealer | Turning research on learning, cognition, and systems into interfaces that reduce confusion, cost and decision stress.

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2025-09-13 11:17:46 UTC

Scale destroys everything that is meant to be sacred in learning and teaching.
I don't think you should educate hundreds and thousands at a time via the same model and methods
Instead, teach groups of 5 connected in a federated network with 100 other groups of 5
Federated microschooling, microcollege
https://standtogether.org/stories/education/microschooling-is-a-growing-movement-heres-how-we-can-speed-it-up
https://thoreaucollege.org/microcollege-movement/

2025-09-04 13:33:17 UTC

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Out of millions of hippocampal neurons, how does it know which ones to fire for any given word/concept
How is the sequence of neural firing decided. If the same chemicals (glutamate, Ca²⁺) are used everywhere, then what gives each word its unique “order” in firing?

2025-09-04 13:33:03 UTC

How does the brain turn a very specific word like “linguistics”), which has shape (letters), sound (phoneme pattern), and meaning (semantic network), into specific chemical activity in the hippocampus and then later decompress those same chemicals (glutamate, Ca²⁺, CREB proteins) back into that exact word?
How does the brain “know” that THIS exact word = THIS exact chemical arrangement?
Out of millions of hippocampal neurons, how does it know which ones to fire for any given word/concept

2025-06-06 13:35:12 UTC

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"It’s full of exploration, conjecture, and drawing pictures. If students are to ever have any hope of producing the neatly packaged mathematics that we see in the front, they are going to have to spend a lot of time getting messy working through mathematics in the back"

2025-06-06 13:21:03 UTC

Equitable and Engaging Mathematics Teaching : A Guide to Disrupting Hierarchies in the Classroom by Daniel Reinholz
https://maa.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Notes97.pdf
"Consider what it means to understand a limit in calculus. Does this mean someone can compute limits? Or describe limits conceptually? Or answer questions about how a limit applies? How many questions does someone need to answer correctly? Are they procedural, conceptual, or both?"
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2025-05-08 16:29:33 UTC

I wonder how Walter Ong would have responded to profs freaking out about losing ways to develop critical thinking because of chatgpt assisted essay writing
Is writing the only modality to develop & showcase critical faculties? Were folks in more oral cultures not able to think critically?

2025-03-20 11:19:21 UTC

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Foster a knowledge-sharing culture. Encourage employees to share their expertise by documenting insights or mentoring others, ensuring the distribution of knowledge rather than confining knowledge to individuals or tools.

2025-03-20 11:18:59 UTC

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Create simulated learning environments. Use AI to create immersive simulations or scenario-based training, encouraging users to engage with problem-solving in realistic contexts without offloading cognitive effort entirely.

2025-03-20 11:18:32 UTC

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For instance, enable manual overrides and require periodic user input to prevent over-reliance on the tool by novice users. Create reports that evaluate the sophistication of user engagement to identify skills gaps and inform career-development plans.

2025-03-20 11:18:06 UTC

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Implement automation gradually. Provide controls that let managers introduce automation gradually, allowing more junior team members to develop expertise as they use the tool.

2025-03-20 11:12:06 UTC

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Embed reflection steps. Incorporate mandatory reflection or review stages in workflows when users summarize what they’ve learned or explain their rationale for decisions.

2025-03-20 11:00:16 UTC

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Design AI systems that require users to input their reasoning or decisions before showing them AI suggestions.
Huh like deepseek?

2024-09-29 17:35:39 UTC

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It's disheartening to see people weaponizing "anti-Semitism" claims against discussions of Palestinian ethnic cleansing and genocide.
It's as if one is asked to suppress their humanity for showing solidarity with those enduring severe war crimes.
For being punished and censored simply for bearing witness to palestinian pain and suffering, for humanising people who have been most dehumanized

2024-09-29 17:35:16 UTC

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I reported his post https://mastodon.social/@npub1qqe…t8hd/113221482953431658
and also tagged the mods in a separate post
https://mastodon.social/@impactology/113221922391213036
Also given he has archived my post, people can see for themselves after watching the twitter video link to see if there was anything "anti-semitic" about it

2024-09-17 20:32:55 UTC

"Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social
If you're having a rough day, remember that in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee's paper for the World Wide Web was rejected and he was relegated to the poster session.
https://bsky.app/profile/patrickmccray.bsky.social/post/3l4e4yrnt4u27
Woah
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2024-09-01 17:52:40 UTC

Kind of wild how in the 21st century there still exists a coloniser doing its colonising with complete and explicit transparency and some governments around the world still support it.

2024-08-30 17:00:14 UTC

What can an artist or designer do to push forward an argument that a research scholar can't or may not be able to?
How does art and design enable a kind of receptivity to novel ideas, for making a claim that walls of texts won't

2024-08-23 14:06:35 UTC

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What are your thoughts, Stephen?
While you were reviewing canonical literature for your book, did you notice that our UX, interaction design, and human-computer interaction books tend to focus more on process diagrams for research and synthesis rather than on the design aspects?

2024-08-12 22:48:27 UTC

Suggest a philosopher or social theorist who actually lived the values advocated in their work. Who practiced what they preached in their day to day life in their behaviour and interactions with people.

2024-08-06 18:05:08 UTC

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I think you'll love interacting with @npub1vfr…9r78. She has written a book that describes refusal to call of hero's journey in game narratives

2024-07-17 17:11:51 UTC

I'm seeking to connect with these folks for — Designing Online Ecosystems for Competition-Free Education
- Educators, Researchers: Interested in innovative, interdisciplinary, constructivist pedagogies
- Students, Lifelong Learners: Seeking self-directed learning, frustrated with competitive systems.
- EdTech Devs, Designers: valuing user creativity, novel digital interactions in edtech tools.
- Educational Policy Makers: Interested in transforming systems towards cooperation
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