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Drawing with Circles: Vibe coding the Fourier Transformation

Drawing with Circles: Vibe coding the Fourier Transformation

In my presentations I sometimes talk about my four years in engineering school as being something of a disaster. The way I present this fact is through this image, and the math/science types get the pun - Four Year / Fourier Transformation! A slide I typically use in...

Making Waves (& Flocking Birds): Creating Science Simulations with AI

Making Waves (& Flocking Birds): Creating Science Simulations with AI

I've been experimenting with AI-assisted coding for a while now—in fact my first attempt was back in early 2023. Since then I have engaged in multiple explorations using AI to transform concepts and intuitions directly into functional code. This approach bypasses...

Small pieces, meaningful connections: Why I love the open web

Small pieces, meaningful connections: Why I love the open web

One of blogging's greatest pleasures, often unspoken, are the truly serendipitous connections one makes. Not networking in the conventional sense, but unexpected encounters with people who find something on my website that connects with them and they reach out. These...

Reflecting on a Semester of Discovery, Creativity and GenAI

Reflecting on a Semester of Discovery, Creativity and GenAI

This past spring semester I taught (with Nicole Oster and Lindsey McCaleb) a masters/doctoral seminar on Human Creativity x AI in Education. I had wanted to write this post after our last class meeting over a month and a half ago—but travel and life kept getting in...

The Stranger Who Changed My Life: A tribute to Bill Atkinson

The Stranger Who Changed My Life: A tribute to Bill Atkinson

Bill Atkinson was someone I had never met. But he changed my life. I learned of Bill's passing a couple of days ago. It was not that I had thought about Bill a lot but the news of his death brought back memories and a recognition of the critical role he had played in...

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

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

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...

Human Creativity to the Power of AI: The Event

Human Creativity to the Power of AI: The Event

When Nicole Oster, Lindsey McCaleb and I were discussing the design of DCI691: Human Creativity × AI in Education before this semester started, we envisioned a space where we (students and faculty alike) could collectively explore the fascinating boundaries between...

Designing for Creative Learning: New book chapter

Designing for Creative Learning: New book chapter

I'm excited to share my recent work with colleagues Richard West, Jason McDonald, and Melissa Warr exploring how instructional designers can intentionally foster creativity through Gl?veanu's 5A Framework. It was published in the prestigious Oxford Handbook of...

The Mirror and the Machine: Navigating the Metaphors of Gen AI

The Mirror and the Machine: Navigating the Metaphors of Gen AI

A couple of weeks ago I was invited by Eamon Costello to present a talk at the Education after the algorithm: Co-designing critical and creative futures conference being held in Dublin. And no, I didn’t get to go to Dublin for my talk—had to do it from here in...

The Promise & Paradox of Creative AI: A Presentation

The Promise & Paradox of Creative AI: A Presentation

I'm excited to announce my upcoming presentation at the Second International Seminar on 'Design Education in the Post-AI World' taking place tomorrow (Saturday) at the Centre for Design Studies in Indore, India. This seminar holds special significance for me as it's...

Dewey or Don’t We Care? Addressing the Novice’s Dilemma in Learning with GenAI

Dewey or Don’t We Care? Addressing the Novice’s Dilemma in Learning with GenAI

In my previous blog post on the Microsoft Research study about GenAI and expertise I ended with a troubling realization that GenAI may not be the best options for learners. As I wrote "This analysis raises particularly thorny issues about AI use in education. If...

When Ghalib meets AI: One student’s experiment

When Ghalib meets AI: One student’s experiment

In my previous post about rediscovering Ghalib through metal and rap, I mentioned sharing his work in my creativity class. What I didn't share was the remarkable ripple effect this had. Every week, students take turns writing reflections on our class discussions and...

The Avengers, Creativity & the EdTech Midgame

The Avengers, Creativity & the EdTech Midgame

If last week we had Bollywood, could Hollywood be far behind? Here is the fourth blog post from students in my class on Human Creativity x AI in Education, documenting what we do each week. The only edit I made to their post was including the image and description of...

Code, Kathak, and Confusion: A Story of Learning with GenAI

Code, Kathak, and Confusion: A Story of Learning with GenAI

One of the students in my Human Creativity x AI in Education class is an accomplished Kathak dancer and last week we got into a discussion of how she could bring this personal interest into projects we were exploring in the class. How could GenAI help? So yesterday,...

Oops! Double Trouble with Double Dactyls OR Learning from AI’s Creative Mistakes

Oops! Double Trouble with Double Dactyls OR Learning from AI’s Creative Mistakes

As headlines swirl about AI chatbots misrepresenting Anne Frank (Schools Using AI Emulation of Anne Frank That Urges Kids Not to Blame Anyone for Holocaust) and Apple canceling its AI news summaries due to accuracy concerns (Apple pulls error-prone AI-generated news...

Welcoming 2025: A Final Reflection (& Calling an End to a 16-year Tradition)

Welcoming 2025: A Final Reflection (& Calling an End to a 16-year Tradition)

Since 2008, our family has been creating short videos to celebrate the start of a new year. Each video is crafted from household items and usually includes some form of typographical optical illusion. Today, we share our sixteenth, and final video—a deceptively simple...

To thine own mind be true: Understanding cultural technologies, from cave walls to ChatGPT

To thine own mind be true: Understanding cultural technologies, from cave walls to ChatGPT

For almost 12 years now we have been writing a column series for the journal TechTrends, exploring the intersection of technology, creativity, and learning. Recently, my colleagues and I have been diving deep into generative AI through conversations with scholars like...

New Course | Human Creativity x AI in Education: A Transdisciplinary Exploration by Design

New Course | Human Creativity x AI in Education: A Transdisciplinary Exploration by Design

DCI 691 (Spring 2025)Human Creativity x AI in Education: A Transdisciplinary Exploration by DesignInstructor Dr. Punya Mishra (punya[AT]asu.edu)Mondays 9 – 11:45 Tempe Short description This graduate-level course examines the dynamic interplay between human creativity...