“Explain it so a ten-year-old would understand!” A hundred-year-old pedagogical model combined with a theory about language models has helped me think about how to best use ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini as sounding boards and for learning new things – without losing the ability to “fly by the seat of my pants.”

https://anders.thoresson.se/post/2025/10/a-hundred-year-old-pedagogical-theory-that-elevates-ai-as-a-thinking-partner/

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A Hundred-Year-Old Pedagogical Theory That Elevates AI as a Thinking Partner

“Explain it so a ten-year-old would understand!” A hundred-year-old pedagogical model combined with a theory about language models has helped me think about how to best use ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini as sounding boards and for learning new things – without losing the ability to “fly by the seat of my pants.”

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Ethan #Mollick on oneusefulthing is positive about #GPT4 #Code #Interpreter for #Python. But it's often the case that experts can ask questions that are not answered in the training data.

I found that #Bing solved an easy #Excel lookup question but anything more complicated could not be done.