{"id":99030,"date":"2026-08-10T15:18:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T19:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=99030"},"modified":"2026-08-10T15:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T19:20:22","slug":"how-to-design-around-cognitive-offloading-hardman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/08\/10\/how-to-design-around-cognitive-offloading-hardman\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Design Around Cognitive Offloading [Hardman]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drphilippahardman.substack.com\/p\/how-to-design-around-cognitive-offloading?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>How to Design Around Cognitive Offloading<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from drphilippahardman.substack.com by Dr Philippa Hardman<br \/>\n<em>Three new studies shed light on when offloading to AI harms learning, when it helps \u2014 and how to design for the difference<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A cluster of new studies \u2014 most published in the last few weeks in the\u00a0International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education\u00a0\u2014 lets us answer two questions with more precision than ever before:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>When does cognitive offloading actually happen?<\/li>\n<li>When does using AI improve cognition?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The answers in turn help us to start to design learning which intentionally uses AI to drive &#8211; rather than diminish &#8211; learning.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drphilippahardman.substack.com\/p\/how-to-design-around-cognitive-offloading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!VcE_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7116f3ad-f893-450a-bfdb-ce207ee308b7_1486x1022.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Design Around Cognitive Offloading &#8212; from drphilippahardman.substack.com by Dr Philippa Hardman Three new studies shed light on when offloading to AI harms learning, when it helps \u2014 and how to design for the difference A cluster of new studies \u2014 most published in the last few weeks in the\u00a0International Journal of Educational Technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,210,71,119,102,838,223,196,269,217,89,50,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate-universities","category-emerging-technologies","category-faculty-staff","category-instructional-design","category-learning","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-theories","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-professional-development","category-research","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","category-training-corporate-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99032,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99030\/revisions\/99032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}