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Why Pedagogy Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever — Lessons from The Accidental Instructional Designer

Every teacher is now an instructional designer. Most don't know it yet. AI is the world's most prolific subject matter expert — and it does not know your students. The craft is the moat.

Mar 27, 2026·12 min read

Vivek M Agarwal

Why Pedagogy Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever — Lessons from Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction

AI can produce a slide deck in nine seconds. It cannot produce a cognitive arc. The cognitive arc is the lesson.

Mar 24, 2026·11 min read

Vivek M Agarwal

Why Pedagogy Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever — Lessons from Generative AI and Education

There is no AI-proof classroom. There is only an AI-thoughtful one. The choice was never ban-vs-allow. It has always been substitute-vs-augment.

Mar 21, 2026·11 min read

Vivek M Agarwal

Why Pedagogy Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever — Lessons from AI and Human Agency in Education

Every AI design choice in your classroom is also an agency choice. Agency atrophies silently — there is no warning light. Adarkwah and colleagues give us the language to name what is being lost.

Mar 18, 2026·10 min read

Vivek M Agarwal

Why Pedagogy Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever — Lessons from Co-Intelligence

The student who treats AI like a calculator becomes a calculator. The student who treats AI like a co-thinker becomes a better thinker. Mollick's four rules are the new pedagogy.

Mar 15, 2026·10 min read

Vivek M Agarwal

Why Pedagogy Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever — Lessons from e-Learning and the Science of Instruction

AI is a Las Vegas machine by default. Clark and Mayer's multimedia principles are the editor's red pen AI desperately needs. Twenty-five years of empirical research, and almost none of it is applied in AI-generated lessons.

Mar 12, 2026·9 min read

Vivek M Agarwal

Why Pedagogy Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever — Lessons from Map It

AI made content production trivial. The gap between content and behavior change is now the most expensive thing in education. Cathy Moore's action mapping is the antidote.

Mar 9, 2026·9 min read

Vivek M Agarwal

Why Pedagogy Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever — Lessons from Design for How People Learn

Your AI doesn't know your kids. That gap is your moat. Julie Dirksen named the failure modes 12 years ago — with cartoons. The diagnosis is pedagogy.

Mar 6, 2026·9 min read

Vivek M Agarwal

Why Pedagogy Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever — Lessons from Make It Stick

AI is the world's most efficient illusion-of-fluency machine. Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel told us how to fight it — in 2014. The fundamentals are the moat.

Mar 3, 2026·6 min read

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