Posts related to: Creativity
AI, Human Rights, and Education: A Virtual Panel Discussion

AI, Human Rights, and Education: A Virtual Panel Discussion

I recently participated in a virtual panel organized by the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of British Columbia (FPSE), examining the intersection of AI: Human rights, and Education. The event brought together five panelists from different institutions and...

From Symbols to Statistics: The Parallel Histories of Machine and Human Learning

From Symbols to Statistics: The Parallel Histories of Machine and Human Learning

Over the past 12 years, we have been writing a regular column in TechTrends, broadly focused on "Rethinking Creativity and Technology in Education." More recently, we've focused our attention on the role of GenAI in teaching, learning and creativity. In our previous...

Can AI Be a Therapist? A Friend? What Are We Even Doing?

Can AI Be a Therapist? A Friend? What Are We Even Doing?

I was recently invited to a webinar organized by the AZ AI Alliance, titled: Thorny Topics: AI and Student Mental Health Along with Dr. Kristen Mattson (University of Illinois), Mica Mulloy (Brophy College Prep) and host Luke Allpress, we jumped into some of the most...

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...

Technology Transforms Learning: Insights from the 2025 Yidan Prize Conference

Technology Transforms Learning: Insights from the 2025 Yidan Prize Conference

I recently participated in the 2025 Yidan Prize Conference hosted by the Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation at Arizona State University. In large part this conference was a celebration of my colleague Micky Chi, recepient of the 2023 Yidan...

ASU-Cintana Innovation Talk for Faculty: Education in an Age of GenAI

ASU-Cintana Innovation Talk for Faculty: Education in an Age of GenAI

I was recently invited to speak on the topic of "Education in an Age of Generative AI" at a special webinar series organized by the ASU-Cintana Alliance. In this talk, I explored both the potential and considerations surrounding Generative AI in education, emphasizing...

SITE 2025: Lost and Found

SITE 2025: Lost and Found

I spent the last week in Orlando at the SITE 2025 conference. During this conference, I set a new personal record for losing everything from my belongings to an election, from water bottles to conference panelists and more - all leading to unexpected tensions and...

Silver Lining for Learning at UNESCO: Celebrating 5 Years of Innovation

Silver Lining for Learning at UNESCO: Celebrating 5 Years of Innovation

I was honored to deliver the closing keynote at UNESCO's International Day for Digital Learning 2025 this past week. The event, focusing on "Digital learning realities in low-resource contexts," brought together educators, policymakers, and innovators from around the...

Control vs. Agency: Exploring the History of AI in Education

Control vs. Agency: Exploring the History of AI in Education

Over the past 12 years we have been writing a regular column in TechTrends, broadly around "Rethinking Creativity and Technology in Education." More recently, we have been exploring the complex relationship between emerging technologies and educational practices, with...

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 Tale of Two Tech Teams: How Small Interactions Expose Our Values

The Tale of Two Tech Teams: How Small Interactions Expose Our Values

A while back, I wrote about an email that made my heart stop—an auto-generated message declaring that an employee had been "terminated." That impersonal, poorly designed communication spoke volumes about the organization's attitude towards its people. And the fact...

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...

Incorrect Scientific Simulations as an educational tool: Vibe coding the wrong way

Incorrect Scientific Simulations as an educational tool: Vibe coding the wrong way

What happens when you drop a ball while running? Will it fall in front of you, at your feet or behind you? Most people are convinced it will fall behind them. Makes perfect sense, right? Where will the ball fall? Then there's the famous textbook problem of a monkey...

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...

Knowledge, Community & Care: Reimagining STEAM Education for Health Equity

Knowledge, Community & Care: Reimagining STEAM Education for Health Equity

One of the deepest pleasures of an academic life is when something you helped create, an idea, a framework, gets a life of its own. Others run across it, who knows how that happens... and they find meaning in it and use it to guide their work. It is both unexpected...

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,...