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Beyond AI Slop: Pride, Joy & Creativity in a World Created by AI

Dec 1, 2025

Is generative AI killing creativity or helping us find new ways to be creative? In our latest AIR|GPT episode, we take on Charlie Warzel's article: A tool that crushes creativity. He argues that generative AI is destroying creative work and polluting the digital world...

Guardrails, Guidelines, & Good Intentions + Teaching Creativity in the age of GenAI

Jun 9, 2025

I continue to co-host AIR | GPT, a podcast that brings together Caroline Fell Kurban, Liz Kolb, Ruben Puentedura, Helen Crompton, and myself for monthly conversations about AI and education. Our discussions are orchestrated by Emmy Award-winning executive producer...

Leigh Wolf @IgniteLansing

Oct 2, 2009

Leigh Wolf, my partner in crime as far as the MAET program goes, recently presented at Ignite Lansing. She talked about her two passions, teaching and food (not sure which order to place these). Specifically she talked about food photography and the connections she...

Academic novels

Mar 17, 2008

I have been reading Moo by Jane Smiley, off and on for a while now. It is a satire of academia set in a fictional Mid-western university called Moo U. It has been suggested that Moo U is a stand in for Iowa State, an university I know well since Smita went to school...

SITE 2024: A recap

Mar 30, 2024

The Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education (SITE) conference has been an integral part of my professional journey for over two decades. My first presentation at SITE was back in 2001 with Matt Koehler and through the years, SITE has played a pivotal...

Update III

Oct 6, 2008

David Jiles Ph.D.'s book is no longer available on the Lulu.com website. Another example of delete and hope the world will forget that I didn't do my homework. See here and here for more on this issue.

Silver Lining for Learning wins 2022 AECT Award

Sep 23, 2022

I learned, this morning, that the Silver Lining for Learning team (the webinar series I co-host with Chris Dede, Curt Bonk, and Yong Zhao) won the 2022 AECT Distinguished Development Award. For a completely unfunded, passion project that started at the beginning of...

Happy 2009, a stop motion movie

Dec 24, 2008

Soham, Shreya and I spent this afternoon making a couple of stop-motion animation new year's card. Check it out... http://www.youtube.com/embed/7kw_icNKI44 https://vimeo.com/41488009 Have a great 2009!

Barriers to Innovation & Inclusion

Feb 10, 2009

Leigh Wolf just sent me this video created by the Johnson Space Center on Barriers to Innovation & Inclusion. A Google search led to this description: Last summer, Johnson Space Center senior management coordinated a center-wide, cross-generational effort to explore...