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Heart Monitors and Moratoriums: Two Conversations About AI in Schools
I was part of two conversations recently that covered two extremes of what we are talking about when we discuss…
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The Peacock & The Chatbot: Hollow Signals & the Trouble with AI Tutors
Why don’t students use AI-based tutor-bots? Holt calls this the 5% problem: only about five percent of Khan Academy students…
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100 Authentic Followers To Die For [new hyperlinked.us essay]
Hyperlinked is a collaborative book that Raaghav Pandya and I are writing at hyperlinked.us. Each chapter starts with something from…
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Fourteen years, 77 columns: Looking back at our TechTrends series
Since 2012, Danah Henriksen and I, along with the Deep-Play Research Group, have been writing a regular column for TechTrends.…
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The Meaning of Silence: Hollow Signals and AI Therapy
Danah Henriksen and I recently finished the latest column in our TechTrends series, a piece on what we call “hollow…
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Value in an Age of AI (Part 1): Revisiting Kevin Kelly’s Generatives
Note: Eighteen years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an essay titled “Better Than Free.” In this essay he focused on the…
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Designing in uncertainty: The Course I Love to Teach
I have been teaching a version of Education by Design for longer than I can remember. I designed it when…
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Transitions
A few things have come together over the past few months that feel less like separate announcements and more like…
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Galaxy on the Edge (of the Page): Kohei Sugiura’s design cosmos
I first heard the name Kohei Sugiura in a classroom at IDC, from my professor Kirti Trivedi (or KT which…
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One Day in Ijuí: On migration, memory and music
On the first day of a class I sometimes ask my students to trace their own lives backwards, from this…
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No one is immune: An Update on AI as a Psychological Technology
I blog about a lot of things. Some posts are just updates on talks and publications, a public record of…
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Raising Independent Thinkers in the Age of AI: Webinar
A week or so ago I was invited to an #AskTheExperts webinar on Raising Independent Thinkers in the Age of…
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Bridging Cultures: Two Weeks as a Fulbright Specialist in Brazil
There is a particular humility in being invited somewhere as “the TPACK guy.” TPACK is the framework that Matt Koehler…
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Catching Up on Summer 2026
It has been a busy summer. On the personal front, my son got married, and the wedding was everything such…
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The Crisis We Earned: An Indictment of Ed Tech Research
Some months ago Natalie Milman, Jason Trumble, and Andrea Harkins-Brown, the editorial team at the Journal of Technology and Teacher…
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The AI Double Agent in the Classroom
This article was cross-posted on BAM Radio’s EdWords blog with the title The Question Every Educator Needs to Ask As…
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New Course—Education by Design: Learning With & About AI
Education by Design: Learning With & About AIDCI 691: Fall 2026 | Tuesdays 1:30 – 4:15, Tempe CampusInstructor: Punya Mishra…
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Of Pride & Prejudice (and a Smart Drunk Intern)
How many students feel pride in the work they are made to do for school? My guess is very few.…
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27 Windows on the Universe (09): Metaphors as Windows
I thought I was done with this series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists.…
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27 Windows on the Universe (08): The Last Window
This is the last post in a series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists.…
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Paths Crossing at the Digital Maidan: Keynotes, Forewords, and Futures
This post is long overdue. I was in Bangalore, back in December 2025, for the Quest 2 Learn Summit organized…
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The Mirror and the Black Box: AI Metaphors and What They Mean for Learning
The latest installment of the Rethinking Technology & Creativity column in TechTrends is published. This one, co-authored with Danah Henriksen,…
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The Classroom and Beyond: Teacher Education in a GenAI World
Danah Henriksen and I have a chapter in the Third International Handbook of Educational Change (2026), edited by A. Lin…
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27 Windows on the Universe (07): The Ecosystem
This is the seventh in a series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists. T…
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27 Windows on the Universe (06): The Drive
This is the sixth in a series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists. Earlier…
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Look What You Made Me Do: The Dawkins Saga, Part II
A week or so ago I wrote a letter to Richard Dawkins — part tribute, part diagnosis — about his…
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A Transatlantic Keynote (No Travel Required)
Earlier this year, the University of Glasgow held its first International Symposium on AI in Education, organized by the School…
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Three Questions on Questions: On Asking, Knowing and Noticing
Note: This post is a followup to a piece I had written earlier. You can find that post Why Sal…
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From Spectator to Specimen: When Parasocial Media Becomes Parasocial AI
Facebook!!! How it has changed over the years. I remember the time when it was a space to connect with…
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This View of Life: A Letter to Richard Dawkins
Note: Richard Dawkins made the news recently with an essay describing his two-day conversation with Claude, the AI chatbot from…