The benefits of collective flow
The different forms of collective flow: social flow, group flow and team flow
The meritocratic fable of the French school
France, like the United States and other Western countries, has for decades based its educational model on meritocracy. The idea is that every student can succeed in a course of study and find himself in the «grandes écoles», regardless of his social environment. A system that has allowed for a democratization of education, the limits of which are however perceptible today. At the end of the day, very few children from less well-off backgrounds make it to the elite...
Economic education reform: a real headache!
The teaching of economics is one of those debatable disciplines. Are teachers biased? Should economics be taught as a science? Should the social aspect be separated from economic teaching? All these questions have come back to the fore in France with the ambition of reforming economics education.
The excitement of performance
Performing in front of an audience requires emotional competence. How do you develop it?
Too easy, too hard: can AI detect boredom and cognitive overload?
Adaptive learning systems promise to adjust difficulty in real time using behavioral data. But can they really detect boredom or cognitive overload? This article shows that these deeply subjective and motivational states largely escape metrics. Adjustment "on its own" cannot be purely algorithmic: it presupposes a hybrid regulation combining data, pedagogical interpretation and learner metacognition.