When people talk about 'executive function', 'cognitive overload' and 'encoding', they're using the metaphor of the mind as a computer to describe learning and cognition. It's exactly the wrong analogy, as Nafex Dakkak argues in this post. And this wrong analogy is misinforming efforts to build AI tutors. Instead, "for tutors to be effective they need to be able to better understand a learner's context, background and surroundings." Also, "we need to move beyond the notion that effective tutoring can only happen one-to-one through direct instruction at a desk."
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