Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning
This stuff is super important and it is good that it is being researched seriously. The money shot is right here in the abstract>We find that students in the active classroom learn more, but they feel like they learn less.>We show that this negative correlation is caused in part by the increased cognitive effort required during active learning.In other word, "real" learning is hard, it takes work, it's not fun. The problem is that "the algorithms" (whatever recommendation ML algorithm YouTube has) works so damned well we are sucked into this endless shallow junkfood dopamine loop of videos that give us just the right amount of dopamine to click on the next one.If you're struggling, you're learning.