New Learning’s Updates
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The Ends of Tests: Possibilities for Transformative Assessment and Learning with Generative AI
Abstract
In The Ends of Tests, Cope, Kalantzis, and Saini propose a transformative vision for education in the era of Generative AI. Moving beyond the limitations of traditional assessments—especially multiple-choice and time-limited essays—the...More
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Reinforcement Learning: From Behaviorism to Artificial Intelligence (and Back Again)
This video provides a detailed historical overview of learning theories, primarily focusing on behaviorism, and connects them to the three distinct ages of artificial intelligence (AI) and their applications in educ...More
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Generative AI Turns Bloom’s Taxonomy Upside-Down: Implications for Creativity and Learning
Michele Galla, Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis
This chapter examines how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) inverts Bloom's Taxonomy, excelling at higher-order skills such as creation and synthesis yet struggling with foundational tasks li...More
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Days of our (Literacies) Lives - Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope
Thanks to Victor Fei Lim, Angel Lin, and the AERA Literacies Special Interest Group.
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AI in Education Design Princples
As we build out CyberScholar (an all-new version of CGScholar, with embedded AI), we've been pondering design principles for AI in education. Here's our first draft - feeback welcome!
1. Cyber-Social Relations
AI and humans are always in dialectic...More
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Literacy in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
British Association of Applied Linguistics, Literacies Special Interest Group - Symposium, 16 May 2025
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The Cybernetics of Learning
"Artificial Intelligence" = the (terrible!) idea that a machine can replicate human cognition. "Cyber-Social Intelligence" = the idea that humans live in generative feedback relations with machines and, as a consequence of their profound differe...More
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On Cyber-Social Learning: A Critique of Artificial Intelligence in Education
Artificial Intelligence is an idea that not only promises too much; it elides the irreducible differences between human intelligence and the electronic manipulation of binary notation. This chapter does three things. 1) In broad historical and p...More
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The “All We Mean” Podcast Series
Hosted by Daniel Shea, with Mary Kalantzis, Bill Cope and guests.
Episode 1 - What is Meaning?
Episode 2 - Too Much Communication?
Episode 3 - Learning Happens Where There's Meaning
Episode 4 - Can A.I. Mean?
Episode 5 - What Decision Means...More
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Multiliteracies: Life of an Idea
Several decades have now passed since the publication in the Harvard Educational Review of the article by the New London Group, “A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures” (1996). Published on the cusp of a revolution in our mean...More