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Recent posts

  • Is higher education broken? Not exactly. March 3, 2026
  • Tool-using tools – Perceptions and misperceptions of generative AI (slides from my keynote for the Global AI Summit, 2025, at Bennett University, India) November 24, 2025
  • Generative vs Degenerative AI (my ICEEL 2025 keynote slides) November 23, 2025
  • Paper: Cognitive Santa Claus Machines and the Tacit Curriculum September 26, 2025
  • New open journal from AACE: AI-Enhanced Learning (with a paper from me) September 25, 2025
  • Educational technologies and the synecdochic fallacy August 8, 2025
  • Cognitive Santa Claus machines June 16, 2025
  • Democratech: reflections on the human nature of blockchain April 30, 2025
  • Just a metatool? Some thoughts why generative AIs are not tools March 27, 2025
  • We are (in part) our tools and they are (in part) us March 7, 2025

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