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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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One Day in Ijuí: On migration, memory and music
On the first day of a class I sometimes ask my students to trace their own lives backwards, from this…
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27 Windows on the Universe (07): The Ecosystem
This is the seventh in a series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists. T…
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27 Windows on the Universe (06): The Drive
This is the sixth 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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27 Windows on the Universe (03): The Spark
This is the third in a series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists. The…
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Speculative Fiction & Learning Futures: The Sequel
Sometimes you do a project and think it’s done. You archive it, link to it from your blog, and move…
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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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The Parrot’s Tale, Updated
I’m in Bangalore this week for Quest Alliance’s Quest to Learn 2025 conference. Looking back through my blog, I found…
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Flawed Jade
I had three conversations this week. One with a colleague, one with a furniture repairer, and one with a physicist…
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Whose Voice? Whose Accent? Navigating Authenticity & Impact in AI-Generated Content
I’ve had the pleasure of co-hosting the AIR|GPT podcast, where I’ve gotten to know Errol St. Clair Smith as one…
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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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Kant, Borges, & AI go to Bollywood: Connections Nobody Asked For
Intro: I am not entirely sure of the point of this post: a somewhat random associative rumination that brings together…
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Shattered: Myth, Metaphor & Gen AI
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about Tennyson’s “Lady of Shalott” and its resonance with our AI…
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The Conscious Suspension of Belief: Getting Smart about Human-AI Interaction
A classic tale of early cinema recounts the 1896 Paris screening of the Lumière brothers’ “L’arrivée d’un train en gare…
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Cybernetics or AI? What’s in a Name?
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet—William Shakespeare…
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Who speaks for the university? Social fiction as a lens for reimagining higher education futures
Note: Image above created using Adobe Firefly, Photoshop and composed in Keynote. A few years ago, I had the pleasure…
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Vikram OR Vetaal, A Halloween Story (co-authored with AI)
A few weeks back, Sean Leahy – friend, tech aficionado, futurist, and the co-host of the Learning Futures Podcast –…
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Tell me a story: Delightful design in an airport
“Design doesn’t need to be delightful for it to work, but that’s like saying food doesn’t need to be tasty…
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15 years of blogging
January 1, 2008. 15 years ago, almost to the day – I posted my first note to this website (screenshot…
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Speculative fiction and the future of learning
One of the most fun projects I have been part of was working with authors of speculative fiction around the…
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Things we hold on to (in a shifting world)
Title image created using Dall E 2, with input by Punya Mishra My colleague Jill Koyama shared an essay published…
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Truth of fact and feeling: Unpacking McLuhan (2/3)
This is the second of three blog posts about how media influence our thinking. The first post, uses the invention…
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The futures of higher ed with Phoebe Wagner
The Center for Science and the Imagination at ASU runs a series of short stories and virtual gatherings that explore…
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The fictions we create (& how they create us)
The fictions we create (& how they create us) This is a story about a multi-year quest and its resolution…
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My favorite(?) failure
I was recently asked to write a chapter for a book that my colleague Ron Beghetto was editing with Laura…
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Help me, find a story by Ursula Le Guin
I am looking for a short story by Ursula Le Guin that I read many years ago growing up in India. The…
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Us in Flux: A conversation with Sarah Pinsker
The Center for Science and the Imagination at ASU has a new series called Us in Flux. Every two weeks…
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3 super-short stories
Students in my EDT180 class spent some time yesterday writing short stories. Super short stories, trying to tell a complete…
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Meta poems too
Layout is the first to go Lines of poetry are sacred to both the author and the reader. To alter…