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Heart Monitors and Moratoriums: Two Conversations About AI in Schools
I was part of two conversations recently that covered two extremes of what we are talking about when we discuss…
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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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Value in an Age of AI (Part 1): Revisiting Kevin Kelly’s Generatives
Note: Eighteen years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an essay titled “Better Than Free.” In this essay he focused on the…
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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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No one is immune: An Update on AI as a Psychological Technology
I blog about a lot of things. Some posts are just updates on talks and publications, a public record of…
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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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Bridging Cultures: Two Weeks as a Fulbright Specialist in Brazil
There is a particular humility in being invited somewhere as “the TPACK guy.” TPACK is the framework that Matt Koehler…
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Catching Up on Summer 2026
It has been a busy summer. On the personal front, my son got married, and the wedding was everything such…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Nostalgia Machine: Why Ed Tech Research Keeps Missing the Point
A colleague recently shared a new study with me that, on the surface, seemed to confirm what many people suspect:…
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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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Blaming the Parents, Not the Platforms: How a World Bank Screen-Time Report Lets the Attention Economy Off the Hook
Note: This is a cross post with the Civics of Technology blog. The World Bank recently released a report titled…
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While We Weren’t Looking: The Real Digital Revolution Beyond School Walls
What is the role of technology in learning? I have devoted a large part of my professional life to this…
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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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The Stranger Who Changed My Life: A tribute to Bill Atkinson
Bill Atkinson was someone I had never met. But he changed my life. I learned of Bill’s passing a couple…
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The jagged frontier of reasoning models: Revisiting eclipses & illusions
Keeping up with GenAI can be difficult. Every few months, another language model arrives trumpeting crisper logic, improved outputs and…
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Who Ordered That? On AI, Education, and the Illusion of Necessity
On April 22, 2025, The Washington Post reported on a draft executive order from the Trump administration that outlines a…
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Technology Transforms Learning: Insights from the 2025 Yidan Prize Conference
I recently participated in the 2025 Yidan Prize Conference hosted by the Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning…
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When Tools Become Culture
In my doctoral seminar last Monday, I started class as I always do – with a “This Day in History”…
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“They’re Not Allowed to Use That S**t”: AI’s Rewiring of Human Connection
I recently participated in a panel discussion organized by the Center for American Progress. Our conversation focused on the emerging…
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Chatting Alone: AI and the (Potential) Decline of Open Digital Spaces
Note: The image above is inspired by the cover of Time Magazine’s 1983 Person of the Year issue – at…
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Digital Shadows: AI Scripts a Different Curriculum
As we continue to grapple with the hype and transformative potential of generative AI in education, I find myself revisiting…