Transfer is the ultimate goal of most learning, and is not simply solved with better technology or more funding| nafez.substack.com
The story of Little Thinking Minds, the Arabic edtech platform that defied Silicon Valley benchmarks to build real impact for MENA's learners| nafez.substack.com
Why the rise of AI won’t replace us — it might just reveal our deepest strengths| nafez.substack.com
Preparing for a World Saturated with AI| nafez.substack.com
Helping students struggle with purpose may be one of the most powerful learning intervention we have, it just needs to be designed intentionally| nafez.substack.com
Why pedagogy and good learning design still come first, and why faster isn't always better.| nafez.substack.com
In the AI-era, one of the most important skills is asking the right questions, and that usually requires deep expertise| nafez.substack.com
Continuing to explore my favourite problems for one more cycle around the sun| Nafez's Notes
As a species, our secret weapon to adapt to new environments is play. We tend to forget that at our own peril.| Nafez's Notes
Levearging digital environments to create invisble assessments for "hard-to-measure" competencies is helping to revolutionize how we assess and support learning| Nafez's Notes
Building the "canva for games" to allow more people to learn with games and prompt behavior change| Nafez's Notes
Making sure AI for learning is transparent, auditable and community driven| Nafez's Notes
Or the future of tutoring if your brain was not a computer| Nafez's Notes
We learn with and through others, we risk losing sight of that fact in the age of the "AI tutor"| Nafez's Notes
Exploring the impact of AI on higher education institutions and assessment| Nafez's Notes
How do we make sure LLMs are not "digital duct tape"?| Nafez's Notes
Leveraging a clear understanding of learning science to redesign PhD programs around groundbreaking deep tech spinouts| Nafez's Notes
The more valuable the AI learning tools we can use become, the more important designing for learner motivation is.| Nafez's Notes
We may never really know the answers to all our problems, but we need to be clear on what problems we care about| Nafez's Notes
Learner motivation is a missing piece in a lot of our discussions around learning. A study of game design offers a 5 part framework for creating better learning experiences across mediums.| nafez.substack.com
An optimistic view on how generative AI will transform education by creating “lower floors and higher ceilings”.| nafez.substack.com
A lot of what passes for "innovation" in edtech does not go far enough, because it is not grounded in first principles of the learning sciences| nafez.substack.com
Divorcing work from play is hurting us in more ways than we realise. We should play more, to learn more, to live more.| nafez.substack.com
The MENA region is a notable absence of the burgeoning global Edtech space| nafez.substack.com
We are at risk of just moving our brick and mortar classrooms to the “metaverse”. To create truly transformative experiences we must go much deeper - with old or new technology.| nafez.substack.com