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Remembering John Langdon
John Langdon (website | wikipedia) passed away a few days ago, on January 1, 2026. He was one of the…
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The Parrot’s Tale, Updated
I’m in Bangalore this week for Quest Alliance’s Quest to Learn 2025 conference. Looking back through my blog, I found…
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The Plays I Never Saw: A Tribute to Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard, the renowned playwright, has died. The funny thing is that I never saw any of his plays performed.…
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Beyond AI Slop: Pride, Joy & Creativity in a World Created by AI
Is generative AI killing creativity or helping us find new ways to be creative? In our latest AIR|GPT episode, we…
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The Freedom to Design: Repurposing Technology for Creative Teaching
I recently had the pleasure of joining Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood on the Fueling Creativity in Education…
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TPACK Handbook 3rd Edition (Plus: Covers that didn’t make it)
Twenty years. That’s how long it’s been since Matt Koehler and I published the 2006 article that gave the TPACK…
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Jim D. Schools Punya on AI Research Tools
I’ll be honest—I’ve been working with AI for a while now, but when it comes to the new tools for…
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GenAI & Trans-disciplinary Creativity: New Book Chapter
What does the advent of AI mean for human creativity? That is the focus of a new book, Generative Artificial…
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Making Thinking Visible: Some Examples of No-Code (Vibe) Coding
I was thrilled recently when my friend Josh Brake mentioned me in his Substack post about “The Forward Deployed Educator.”…
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Beyond Learning Styles II: Your Students’ Minds ? Work Nothing Like Yours (and They Don’t Know it Either)
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about cognitive diversity (and learning styles), essentially arguing that in the…
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Blaming the Parents, Not the Platforms: How a World Bank Screen-Time Report Lets the Attention Economy Off the Hook
Note: This is a cross post with the Civics of Technology blog. The World Bank recently released a report titled…
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The Real AI Challenge: Building Systems That Adapt, Not Just Adopt
“The environment is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all…
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The Yes-Bot Problem: Why Agreeable AI Makes Learning Harder
I just came across a study that should make anyone thinking about AI in education sit up and take notice.…
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Einstein’s Beams and Feynman’s Colors: What We Lost When We Debunked Learning Styles
“When I see equations, I see the letters in colors — I don’t know why. As I’m talking, I see…
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From Classroom to Reality: Celebrating Media Mentor AI
This past spring semester, I taught (with Nicole Oster and Lindsey McCaleb) a masters/doctoral seminar on Human Creativity × AI…
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Beyond Skills: A conversation on Futures & Learning
A few months ago I sat down with my friend Bhawna Parmar as a guest on the Quest for Better…
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The Promise and Paradox of Creative AI: Talk at U25 Conference
I was recently invited to speak at the Universel Conference 2025: Empowering Humane Technology. You can find the abstract, and…
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Beyond Tools and Training: Building Sustainable Learning Environments that Evolve with AI
Our TechTrends series on technology, learning and creativity, has focused recently on generative AI’s impact on education through expert interviews,…
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Pedagogical Debt: What We Owe Our Students in an AI World (New AIR | GPT Episode)
At our most recent AIR|GPT podcast meetup (our regular monthly “airport” gathering), Ruben Puentedura introduced us to the concept of…
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We Are All Living in Searle’s Chinese Room
I found out a couple of days ago that the philosopher John Searle passed away on September 17, just a…
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Subversion as Literacy: Foreword in “Critical AI in K-12 Classrooms”
A little less than a year ago, my friends and colleagues, Marie Heath and Stephanie Smith Budhai reached out to…
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From the Archives: My First Paper on Design
Earlier today I had a Zoom call with a doctoral student interested in having me on her comprehensive examination committee.…
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Remembering David Berliner (1938 – 2025)
Note: I wrote the following a day or so after I heard of David Berliner’s passing. I have links to…
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Beyond Classroom Walls: The New Psycho-Social Ecology of GenAI
In our new paper published in AI-Enhanced Learning, my colleagues Nicole Oster, Lindsey McCaleb, and I argue that while educators…
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LLMs are WEIRD Stochastic Parrots
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote about how AI systems trained on WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic)…
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Flawed Jade
I had three conversations this week. One with a colleague, one with a furniture repairer, and one with a physicist…
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While We Weren’t Looking: The Real Digital Revolution Beyond School Walls
What is the role of technology in learning? I have devoted a large part of my professional life to this…
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Whose Voice? Whose Accent? Navigating Authenticity & Impact in AI-Generated Content
I’ve had the pleasure of co-hosting the AIR|GPT podcast, where I’ve gotten to know Errol St. Clair Smith as one…
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Three Years of Gen AI: Back to School Edition of AIR|GPT
It’s been 1000 days since ChatGPT launched. Not that anybody was clamoring for a hallucinating ChatBot but here we are.…
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The perfectly wrong person for the job: My essay on the future of the orchestra
Note to readers: This is the story of how I came to write an essay called “Why Gödel and Escher…