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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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Banning what won’t go away: A new AIR|GPT episode
Tech bans, and calls for more of them, are in the air. The Los Angeles Unified School District just banned…
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John Dewey, Mrs. Sehgal & R.K. Joshi: Two Brainwaves videos on AI and Teaching
I recently was a guest on Bob Greenberg’s Brainwaves Video Anthology, a remarkable project that since 2014 has grown into…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Against Simplification: On the value of small rebellions
Scott Carlson’s recent article (On the Dangers of ‘Simplification’) in The Chronicle of Higher Education explores James C. Scott’s influential…
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Grok This! When AI goes off the rails (Ep. #9 AIR | GPT)
Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be. I remember when “x” was just the “unknown” – the variable that we…
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The Rorschach Test of AI Research: New Episode of AIR | GPT
Two recent studies about AI and education have been receiving enormous attention—MIT’s “Your Brain on ChatGPT” and the World Bank’s…
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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…
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Modem Futura Podcast: AI, Education, and the Human Heart of Learning
I recently had the pleasure of joining Sean Leahy and Andrew Maynard on their podcast Modem Futura for what turned…
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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…
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A New Definition of Literacy
Note: For some context on the title image (above) please see an addendum at the end of this post. This…
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AI schools, para-social relationships and more: New episodes of AIR|GPT
I am a co-host of a relatively new podcast called AIR | GPT with Caroline Fell Kurban, Liz Kolb, Ruben…
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Copy, Paste, Personality: AI and the Messy Science of Being Human
According to MIT Technology Review (AI can now create a replica of your personality) a new paper from Stanford and…
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Of Stochastic Parrots and Drunk Interns: My Chat with Win Coalition
I recently sat down with Ryan Gray and Robin Bryce of Yavapai College for Win Coalition’s What’s Next Speaker Series.…
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Announcing AIR|GPT: A New Podcast
I’m excited to share that I’m part of a new monthly podcast focused on generative AI in education (AIR|GPT) alongside…
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“They’re Not Allowed to Use That S**t”: AI’s Rewiring of Human Connection
I recently participated in a panel discussion organized by the Center for American Progress. Our conversation focused on the emerging…
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Center for American Progress Webinar: AI in Education
I had the pleasure, this morning, of participating in a panel discussion organized by the Center for American Progress, titled…
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Tech Integration Models and GenAI: Podcast Episode (Part II)
Last week, I shared information about my participation in the Superspeaks | Microsoft EDU podcast on the BAM Radio Network.…
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Tech integration models and GenAI: Podcast episode (Part I)
I was recently invited to be a guest on the Superspeaks | Microsoft EDU podcast on the BAM Radio Network.…
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Teachers and genAI: Insights from an OECD Webinar
I recently had the privilege of participating in a webinar hosted by the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development)…