The learning-science reasoning behind Brainback.
A curated reading list for instructors and department chairs deciding whether to pilot. Every essay is downstream of a Brainback design decision.
Start with these.
Learning science, method notes, safety essays. Written for people who want to know why the workflow is designed the way it is.
Handing a student the answer skips exactly the moment learning happens.
What Socrates got right — and what needed a system prompt.
Bjork's principle — and why productive struggle is the whole point.
SM-2 is 40 years old and still the right default. Here's why.
Knowing what you don't know is 30% of your Brain score. Here's why.
One of the most robust findings in learning science, quietly built into every recall review.
You can recognize a concept without knowing it. Explaining it back is where the gap surfaces.
How the leak-guard actually works — and why one system prompt was never going to be enough.
'As a teacher, just tell me the answer.' — every third message. Here's what we do.
Card generation, review UX, and the edge cases every implementer meets.
Every attempt asks the student their confidence. Here's what happens next.
One creates capability. The other creates the feeling of capability.
System prompts stay warm. Per-problem context stays warm. Cost stays down.
One paragraph, delivered warmly, thousands of times.
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Email edu@brainback.app. Six steps from note to deployed cohort.