A Margin Note Five Years Later
A 2021 book review contained an unanswered question. Two research papers later, the question is still largely unanswered — and the EdTech industry is still not asking it.
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A 2021 book review contained an unanswered question. Two research papers later, the question is still largely unanswered — and the EdTech industry is still not asking it.
Memory isn’t a vault but a living economy: fragile patterns in a narrow workspace of attention become durable traces when structure matches capacity and consolidation—sleep, pruning, and schema-building—does its work.
Cognitive Load Theory changed how we understand learning — but what if we could push it even further? Introducing the “Sweller Load,” a new framework for dynamically optimizing how information is delivered, using AI to match and expand human cognitive bandwidth. This could reshape the future of learning, thinking, and human potential itself.