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New Course—Education by Design: Learning With & About AI
Education by Design: Learning With & About AIDCI 691: Fall 2026 | Tuesdays 1:30 – 4:15, Tempe CampusInstructor: Punya Mishra…
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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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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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New Course—Education by Design: Synthesizing Learning Experiences with AI
Education by Design: Synthesizing Learning Experiences with AIDCI 691: Fall 2025 | Thursdays 9 – 11:45, Tempe CampusInstructor: Punya Mishra…
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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…
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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…
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Human Creativity^AI: Team Energy Blog post
Below is Team Energy’s blog post for my Human Creativity x AI for Education class. In the urge to top…
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Play—I: Blog post by Team AI
Below is Team AI’s blog post for my Human Creativity x AI for Education class. As always, I have not…
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Creative Minds: The AI Edition
Note: Team Catalyst for their weekly blog post for my creativity chose to submit a podcast transcript. I then went…
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Abstracting the Abstract: A Cricket Match of Ideas
From films to cricket—what could be more (in)appropriate for a class blog post on creativity and AI. Here is the…
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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…
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Creativity class goes to Bollywood
The third blog post from students in my class on Human Creativity x AI in Education. Links to previous posts…
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Creativity x GenAI: Week 3
The second blog post from students in my class on Human Creativity x AI in Education. (You can see the…
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Human Creativity & AI in Education: Week 1
This semester I am teaching a course titled Human Creativity x AI in Education. We have 19 students in the…
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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 –…
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creAItive teaching: Announcing a new course
I have been working for a while (with some amazing colleagues) on course on creative teaching with AI. This was…
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Me & We in AI
What does generative AI mean to me? And to us? These key questions were part of a special exhibit curated…
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Designing for Creative Learning Environments: New chapter
In 2017, Carmen Richardson and I co-authored a paper (Richardson & Mishra, 2017) introducing SCALE: Support of Creativity in Learning…
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Scaling up the SCALE Instrument
Back in 2017, Carmen Richardson and I wrote an article (Richardson & Mishra, 2017) in which we proposed an instrument…
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Making it in academia! Hmmm…?
The question of impact of one’s work is something that all researchers and scholars care about, particularly in applied fields…
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Creativity online & in maker spaces
As a part of our ongoing series on creativity, technology and learning for the journal TechTrends we recently spoke with…
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Embracing failure (in a first year technology course)
In his book The child and the curriculum; and The school and society John Dewey identified four key impulses for…
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Designing the futures of STEM education
“What knowledge is of most worth?” is a question asked over a 100 years ago by the English philosopher, Herbert…
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Principled Innovation meets Design: 1 new model and 2 videos
Our college has embraced the idea of Principled Innovation as being a core value that informs everything we do. (More…
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Human-Centered values in a disruptive world
I have seen the power of the market… But when it becomes the only language, when it becomes the only…
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The Five Spaces for Design in Education
Note: This post was co-authored with Melissa Warr. I love to talk about design and education. I like to hang…
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With Gratitude
This past Monday was a special. That evening I was at Manitas School in Kyrene school district for the ribbon-cutting…
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School design in MLFTC News
One of the most exciting projects we have been involved with in the Office of Scholarship and Innovation (OofSI) has…
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The School Design Game v 1.0
The journey of design is complicated, filled with conundrums —some expected, others not so much. There are many possible strategies …
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Educators as Designers
How might we? Three words, and a question mark. At one level it is a simple question—leaving open what it…