Actual Intelligence with Steve Pearlman

Actual Intelligence with Steve Pearlman

Steve Pearlman, Ph.D.

Episodes 66
Avg. Duration 35m
Activity Moderate
Since Oct 2017
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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One of the world's premiere critical thinking experts, you can view Dr. Steve Pearlman's viral Editor’s Pick TEDx talk here: https://youtu.be/Bry8J78Awq0?si=08vBAR1710mgQt0i

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Recent Episodes

ChatGPT "Improves" Critical Thinking in Kids...But Not Really

Dec 09, 2025 1m

📍 📍 📍 think. This study found some evidence for enhancing critical thinking through the use of ChatGBT. The researchers followed 25 students as they wrote essays with the assistance of ChatGPT.…

Free Your Brain from ChatGPT "Thinking"

Oct 27, 2025 10m

If you you’re someone who values being able think independently, then you should be troubled by the fact that your brain’s operates all too much like ChatGPT. I’m going to explain how that undermines…

Is Higher Ed to Collapse from A.I.?

Sep 09, 2025 43m

Steve Pearlman: Today on actual intelligence, we have a very important and timely discussion with Dr. Robert Neber of a SU, whose recent opinion piece in inside higher education is titled AI and…

Get Recognized for Thinking Outside the Box

Sep 04, 2025 6m

How does your brain tackle a new problem? Believe it or not, it tackles new problems by using old frameworks it created for similar problems you faced before. But if your brain is wired to use old…

Did the APA just end critical thinking in colleges?

Sep 02, 2025 8m

Thanks for reading Actual Intelligence with Dr. Steve Pearlman! Subscribe FREE to receive new posts and support my work.APA to Students: Don't Bother to Think for Yourselves Anymore. Let AI Do It.If…

Kids Want Off Their Phones. Here's How!

Aug 25, 2025 4m

Thanks for reading Actual Intelligence with Dr. Steve Pearlman! This post is public so feel free to share it.Thanks for reading Actual Intelligence with Dr. Steve Pearlman! Subscribe for free to…

Is ChatGPT Dumbing Down your Kid? New MIT Study Says, “Yes.”

Aug 21, 2025 10m

Is ChatGPT dumbing down your kid? It is and here’s what you can do.A new MIT study reveals the powerful consequences of artificial intelligence on actual intelligence, and guess what? Simply (and…

Is ChatGPT Dumbing Down your Kid? A New MIT Study Says, “Yes.”

Aug 21, 2025 11m

We finally have emerging research on Artificial Intelligence's consequences for actual intelligence.  If you're an educator or parent--or if you're anyone who just thinks that thinking is…

QUICK TIP: Unlocking Divergent Thinking--The Physical Connection

Aug 13, 2025 9m

Stuck in a mental rut?  Need a way to break out of your current thought patterns?  Want to unlock and unleash your creative, divergent, disruptive thinking skills?  Who doesn't? Listen to learn how!…

Headagogy Update!

Feb 09, 2024 1m

More Headagogy coming soon!  Also, check out The Critical Thinking Institute pdocast, with me!!! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to…

Thinking Critically in College with Louis Newman

Nov 28, 2023 33m

Steve interviews Louis E. Newman, author of Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success.  What's the relationship between thinking and studentship?  How can we -- and…

ChatGPT - A Loaded Blessing In Disguise?

Mar 21, 2023 39m

Is ChatGPT friend or foe?  Should the whole world, as Australia has done, relegate essay writing to inside classrooms?  Is "the academic essay dead"?  Or is ChatGPT, as some have contended, a tool…

Rubric Nation: Are We Rubricizing Our Humanity (Part 2)

Dec 14, 2022 36m

Continuing their discussion of the pedagogical, institutional, and societal implications of rubrics and rubricizing, Joe, Michelle, and Steve get into rubrics and questions of ...privilege and the…

Rubric Nation: Are we Rubricizing our Humanity?

Dec 07, 2022 44m

Steve and the authors of Rubric Nation -- Michelle Tenam-Zemach and Joseph E. Flynn, Jr. -- get into it about all things rubrics and rubricization, as well as whatever it is that we are doing, good…

Frances Valintine: Progressive Teaching; Institutional Shifting

Nov 29, 2022 53m

Steve welcomes futurist Frances Valintine: Founder of MindLab--the Best Start-up in Asia Pacific as judged by Steve Wozniak and Sir Richard Branson in 2014.  Frances is a member of the New Zealand…

Academic Rigor-mortis: A possible cure?

Nov 15, 2022 47m

Listen for an in-depth discussion of the rigamarole around academic rigor, including what might be a very surprising--though nonetheless perfectly sensible--root of its challenges.  Student vs.…

NYU's Firing of Dr. Maitland Jones (pt. 2)

Nov 01, 2022 27m

Part 2 on Jones's firing, including a cranky look at curious statements by NYU, and an uncomfortable look at time traveling through the academy. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss…

NYU's Firing of Dr. Maitland Jones (pt. 1)

Oct 25, 2022 24m

Steve takes an in-depth look at NYU's expedited decision to fire distinguished Organic Chemistry professor, Dr. Maitland Jones, after receiving a petition from students complaining about his course. …

Ungrading through Peer Assessment - A Case Study (Part 2)

Jun 07, 2022 30m

Steve welcomes the University of Wyoming's own TK Stoudt and his students, Amy Bezzant, Maddy Davis, and James Roberts.  Hear about the triumph (and trials!) of peer assessment from an educator who's…

Ungrading through Peer Assessment - A Case Study (Part 1)

May 31, 2022 28m

Steve welcomes the University of Wyoming's own TK Stoudt and his students, Amy Bezzant, Maddy Davis, and James Roberts.  Hear about the triumph (and trials!) of peer assessment from an educator who's…

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