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GenAI
The generative AI era — ChatGPT and after, 2022 onward.
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The AI Double Agent in the Classroom
This article was cross-posted on BAM Radio’s EdWords blog with the title The Question Every Educator Needs to Ask As…
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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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Of Pride & Prejudice (and a Smart Drunk Intern)
How many students feel pride in the work they are made to do for school? My guess is very few.…
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27 Windows on the Universe (08): The Last Window
This is the last post in a series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists.…
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The Mirror and the Black Box: AI Metaphors and What They Mean for Learning
The latest installment of the Rethinking Technology & Creativity column in TechTrends is published. This one, co-authored with Danah Henriksen,…
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The Classroom and Beyond: Teacher Education in a GenAI World
Danah Henriksen and I have a chapter in the Third International Handbook of Educational Change (2026), edited by A. Lin…
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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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A Transatlantic Keynote (No Travel Required)
Earlier this year, the University of Glasgow held its first International Symposium on AI in Education, organized by the School…
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Three Questions on Questions: On Asking, Knowing and Noticing
Note: This post is a followup to a piece I had written earlier. You can find that post Why Sal…
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From Spectator to Specimen: When Parasocial Media Becomes Parasocial AI
Facebook!!! How it has changed over the years. I remember the time when it was a space to connect with…
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This View of Life: A Letter to Richard Dawkins
Note: Richard Dawkins made the news recently with an essay describing his two-day conversation with Claude, the AI chatbot from…
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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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Why Sal Khan’t: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling
This piece was also cross-posted on the Civics of Technology blog. This piece also has a followup post that you…
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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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27 Windows on the Universe (02): The Artifacts in the Machine
This is the second in a series of posts about the human side of science, based on interviews with 27…
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Of Three Minds
I was of three minds,Like a treeIn which there are three blackbirds.—Wallace Stevens, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”…
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SITE 2026: There in Spirit
SITE is my conference. It has been for years now, and not being able to attend this year’s meeting in…
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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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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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Large Language Models and Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Conflicting Paradigms and Possible Solutions
I have a new chapter out, co-authored with Danielle McNamara, Gregory Goodwin, and Diego Zapata-Rivera, in the latest volume of…
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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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Dissertation in a day
For the past six years, I have been a co-host on Silver Lining for Learning, a weekly webinar series that…
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Danielle McNamara on Magic Tutors, Learning Engineering & AI’s Role in Education
Over the years, our column series in TechTrends has explored the intersections of creativity, education, and emerging technologies. Recent articles…
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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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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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From HTML to GenAI: Re-visiting Three Early-Web Projects
I’ve been on a bit of a vibe-coding spree lately, building interactive simulations, educational tools, cultural experiments, all through conversation…
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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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Social-Emotional Learning & AI at LERN2026
Social-Emotional Learning & AI at LERN2026 Our team presented two papers at the 2nd Annual Learning Engineering Research Network (LERN)…