Memory
We test the small conditions that let an idea be recalled instead of merely recognized.
Research
We study how explanation, retrieval, and reflection make difficult ideas available when they matter.
Research threads:MemoryExplanationPracticeKnowledge mappingTutoring
Published notes · 2026
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1,847Explanation
We examine what changes when a learner has to make the shape of an idea clear in their own words.
Practice
We explore the rhythms of return, productive difficulty, and a pause that gives thinking room.
Knowledge mapping
We study how a visible path through a subject helps learners find the next useful connection.
Tutoring
We design AI guidance that stays curious about what a learner means, not just what they answer.
The route back to an idea.
A study of why a changed prompt can surface a concept more reliably than a repeated answer.
When a clear explanation becomes evidence.
Making an idea teachable exposes the part that still needs a smaller case or another question.
The value of an honest pause.
Why a moment of uncertainty can give an intelligent tutor better material to work with.
The route back to an idea.
A changed prompt can surface a concept more reliably than a repeated answer. We ran a six-week intervention to understand why.
Open publication →When a clear explanation becomes evidence.
Asking a learner to teach an idea back reveals the seam where the next useful question belongs.
Open publication →The value of an honest pause.
A moment of explicit uncertainty is often followed by a sharper question than a moment of fluent confidence.
Open publication →Maps that preserve the path.
A useful knowledge map shows not only what a learner knows, but how the idea was assembled and where to walk next.
Open publication →What learners keep after a session.
We asked 47 learners which moments they still remembered a week later. The answers changed how we end a session.
Open publication →When a tutor should say it is unsure.
On the conditions under which a model admitting uncertainty is more useful than a fluent guess.
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Research that stays close to practice.
Our work begins with a modest question: what would make this idea easier to return to tomorrow?
We publish methods, prototypes, and working notes so the answers can be useful to learners, teachers, and anyone building a more durable way to think.