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Fourteen years, 77 columns: Looking back at our TechTrends series
Since 2012, Danah Henriksen and I, along with the Deep-Play Research Group, have been writing a regular column for TechTrends.…
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Designing in uncertainty: The Course I Love to Teach
I have been teaching a version of Education by Design for longer than I can remember. I designed it when…
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Galaxy on the Edge (of the Page): Kohei Sugiura’s design cosmos
I first heard the name Kohei Sugiura in a classroom at IDC, from my professor Kirti Trivedi (or KT which…
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Raising Independent Thinkers in the Age of AI: Webinar
A week or so ago I was invited to an #AskTheExperts webinar on Raising Independent Thinkers in the Age of…
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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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27 Windows on the Universe (09): Metaphors as Windows
I thought I was done with this series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists.…
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27 Windows on the Universe (05): The Internal Landscape
This is the fifth in a series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists. Earlier…
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27 Windows on the Universe (04): The Craft of Work
This is the fourth in a series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists. The…
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From blog post to AERA paper: Kant, Borges & AI go to Bollywood
Last summer, digging around in an old Dropbox folder, I stumbled across a Kant quote I had used in a…
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The Paragraph is the Interface: AI Metaphors Meet the Talmud
Danah Henriksen and I recently wrote a paper, currently in press, titled “The Mirror and the Black Box: AI Metaphors…
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The Autocomplete That Didn’t: Three More Reads on Dampuni
I recently wrote a post about my son Soham, aged two, replacing words in the Humpty Dumpty poem with a…
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Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Dampuni: Play, Evolution, and Futures Thinking
This is the first of two posts. You can find the second post here. When my son was about two,…
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Introducing Hyperlinked.us
Around a year ago (January 27, 2025) I got an email out of the blue from Raaghav Pandya, introducing himself…
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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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Bilingual Tomfoolery: Phonetic Visual Puns & Puzzles
Four copper pots. A fountain pen on a bus. A bull with a crow. A peacock in a bucket. What…
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Between Imperative and Panic: Navigating AI’s Educational Moment with Leon Furze
Over the years, our column series in TechTrends has explored the intersections of creativity, education, and emerging technologies. Over the…
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In defense of tinkering
Summary: In which I explore why tinkering—messy, creative, often undervalued and overlooked—is not only a valid way to approach teaching,…
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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,…
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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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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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Exploring the TypeVerse: When Typography Meets AI Poetry
Back in January I wrote about my typographical designs where letters do double duty and how I was collaborating with…
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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…