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The Peacock & The Chatbot: Hollow Signals & the Trouble with AI Tutors
Why don’t students use AI-based tutor-bots? Holt calls this the 5% problem: only about five percent of Khan Academy students…
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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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The Crisis We Earned: An Indictment of Ed Tech Research
Some months ago Natalie Milman, Jason Trumble, and Andrea Harkins-Brown, the editorial team at the Journal of Technology and Teacher…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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)…
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The Curiosity Paradox: How Sycophantic GenAI May Undermine Learning
Over the years, our column series in TechTrends has explored the intersections of creativity, education, and emerging technologies. Over the…
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TPACK Handbook 3rd Edition (Plus: Covers that didn’t make it)
Twenty years. That’s how long it’s been since Matt Koehler and I published the 2006 article that gave the TPACK…
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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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The Real AI Challenge: Building Systems That Adapt, Not Just Adopt
“The environment is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all…
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Beyond Tools and Training: Building Sustainable Learning Environments that Evolve with AI
Our TechTrends series on technology, learning and creativity, has focused recently on generative AI’s impact on education through expert interviews,…
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Subversion as Literacy: Foreword in “Critical AI in K-12 Classrooms”
A little less than a year ago, my friends and colleagues, Marie Heath and Stephanie Smith Budhai reached out to…
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From the Archives: My First Paper on Design
Earlier today I had a Zoom call with a doctoral student interested in having me on her comprehensive examination committee.…
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Beyond Classroom Walls: The New Psycho-Social Ecology of GenAI
In our new paper published in AI-Enhanced Learning, my colleagues Nicole Oster, Lindsey McCaleb, and I argue that while educators…
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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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The Page is a Stage: AI Debates as Academic Theater
Sometimes the best academic work emerges from moments of pure play. That’s certainly true for our recent paper “The Staging…
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Brains Without Minds, Eyes Without Hands: Revisiting Visual Literacy in a GenAI World
Everyone seems to be clamoring for AI literacy these days—how to prompt effectively, how to spot AI-generated content, how to…
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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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Six Principles for Educational Technology Implementation: A Global Perspective
A few months ago, the Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation at Arizona State University hosted the…
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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…
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Teacher Education in the Age of GenAI: Special issue of the Journal of Teacher Education
Note: This post was cross-posted on the AACTE/ EdPrep Matters website on April 30, 2025. I am excited to announce…
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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…
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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…
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GenAI and the Education Doctorate: New Article
I am pleased to share this special issue of Impacting Education focusing on “The Role of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)…
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Special issue on TPACK in Context, with a new & improved model
Since we first introduced the TPACK model in 2006, the role of context has been a subject of ongoing discussion…