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Why Sal Khan’t: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling
This piece was also cross-posted on the Civics of Technology blog. This piece also has a followup post that you…
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The Paragraph is the Interface: AI Metaphors Meet the Talmud
Danah Henriksen and I recently wrote a paper, currently in press, titled “The Mirror and the Black Box: AI Metaphors…
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Speculative Fiction & Learning Futures: The Sequel
Sometimes you do a project and think it’s done. You archive it, link to it from your blog, and move…
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27 Windows on the Universe (02): The Artifacts in the Machine
This is the second in a series of posts about the human side of science, based on interviews with 27…
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Of Three Minds
I was of three minds,Like a treeIn which there are three blackbirds.—Wallace Stevens, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”…
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SITE 2026: There in Spirit
SITE is my conference. It has been for years now, and not being able to attend this year’s meeting in…
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27 Windows on the Universe (01): The Fan Letter
This is the first in a series of posts about the human side of science, based on interviews with 27…
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AI in Education: Digital Education Dialogues Podcast
In this episode of Digital Education Dialogues, the discussion centers on the intersection of AI, teacher training, and the future…
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The Autocomplete That Didn’t: Three More Reads on Dampuni
I recently wrote a post about my son Soham, aged two, replacing words in the Humpty Dumpty poem with a…
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Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Dampuni: Play, Evolution, and Futures Thinking
This is the first of two posts. You can find the second post here. When my son was about two,…
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Large Language Models and Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Conflicting Paradigms and Possible Solutions
I have a new chapter out, co-authored with Danielle McNamara, Gregory Goodwin, and Diego Zapata-Rivera, in the latest volume of…
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Six Years, 266 Episodes, and One Persistent Question
On March 11, 2020, my friend Yong Zhao sent me an email. “I am interested in a thought experiment about…
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Dissertation in a day
For the past six years, I have been a co-host on Silver Lining for Learning, a weekly webinar series that…
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Danielle McNamara on Magic Tutors, Learning Engineering & AI’s Role in Education
Over the years, our column series in TechTrends has explored the intersections of creativity, education, and emerging technologies. Recent articles…
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Introducing Hyperlinked.us
Around a year ago (January 27, 2025) I got an email out of the blue from Raaghav Pandya, introducing himself…
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What Are Your AI Blind Spots? New AIR | GPT Episode
What if I’m wrong? What are my blind spots? Those two questions frame our latest AIR | GPT episode, driven…
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The Overconfident Intern in the Classroom: Reflections on AI, TPACK, and Education
I recently joined Justin Hardman on the Education Vanguard podcast for a conversation that ranged from the evolution of TPACK…
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Using AI to address The Alignment Problem in doctoral dissertations
Note: This post was updated on April 20, 2026 with the addition of a third prompt and then on June…
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From HTML to GenAI: Re-visiting Three Early-Web Projects
I’ve been on a bit of a vibe-coding spree lately, building interactive simulations, educational tools, cultural experiments, all through conversation…
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Creativity & AI: On the Perkins Platform Podcast
I recently joined Dr. Brian K. Perkins on the Perkins Platform Podcast for a conversation that gets at a question…
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Social-Emotional Learning & AI at LERN2026
Social-Emotional Learning & AI at LERN2026 Our team presented two papers at the 2nd Annual Learning Engineering Research Network (LERN)…
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Honest Non-Signals: Why AI Fools Us Without Lying
I have a test I give AI systems: a modified Ebbinghaus illusion where one circle is deliberately larger than the…
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Agentic AI: New Tools, New Questions (New AIR | GPT Episode)
At our most recent AIR|GPT podcast meetup (our regular monthly “airport” gathering), Caroline Kurban jump-started the discussion with a startling…
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EdPrepLab World Café: Transforming Teacher Education for a Changing World
In early December 2025, I had the honor of joining an extraordinary panel for EdPrepLab’s fifth World Café, a global…
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What a Guide to AI in Schools Reveals (and What It Can’t)
We had Justin Reich and Jesse Dukes as guests on the Silver Lining for Learning webinar/podcast to discuss their new…
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AI, Education, & the Unregulated Global Experiment: Keynote at Education International’s First Global AI Conference
I recently had the privilege of speaking at Education International’s inaugural Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Shaping our Future: Education…
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How do people think AI works? (Some surprising findings)
Those of us who work in and around artificial intelligence often exist in something of a bubble. We talk about…
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An AI Premortem: A New Direction for Students in an AI World
When social media first entered our world, educators—myself included—focused narrowly on strategies for incorporating these tools into classroom contexts. We…
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The Curiosity Paradox: How Sycophantic GenAI May Undermine Learning
Over the years, our column series in TechTrends has explored the intersections of creativity, education, and emerging technologies. Over the…
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The Nostalgia Machine: Why Ed Tech Research Keeps Missing the Point
A colleague recently shared a new study with me that, on the surface, seemed to confirm what many people suspect:…