Writing
Since ChatGPT erupted into our lives, I’ve been playing, thinking, and writing about what it means for education. Not the surface questions but the deeper ones: how does generative AI reshape cognition, communication, and the social structures around learning? These tools are weird, creative, relational, and philosophically unlike anything we’ve had before.
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TPACK in the age of ChatGPT and Generative AI
This article revisits the TPACK framework in light of generative AI, arguing that these tools fundamentally change the relationship between technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge. One of the most widely-cited pieces in this space.
Mishra, P. (2024). Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education.
Key Pieces
On what educational researchers need to know about GenAI and how it changes the landscape of teacher knowledge.
AI Metaphors and What They Mean for Learning — mapping the metaphors people reach for when making sense of GenAI.
Teacher Education in a GenAI World — how generative AI reshapes what it means to prepare teachers.
Understanding Cultural Technologies, From Cave Walls to ChatGPT — the long view on how tools shape minds.
For the full research context behind this writing, see the AI & Learning and Media, Minds & Machines research pages.
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