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

British Association of Applied Linguistics, Literacies Special Interest Group - Symposium, 16 May 2025

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"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

Michele Galla, Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis

Imagine an intelligence defined by paradox: unable to recall the basic facts about Shakespeare's life, but brilliantly capable of instantly composing a flawless Shakespearean sonnet about a ham sandwi...More

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

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

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

In this article for the Harvard Educational Review, Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope revisit the foundational ideas of the New London Group thirty years after the article's publication in this journal. They explore how the multiliteracies framework...More

Press Release, University of Illinois: A new book examines the ideas that shaped teaching practices and student learning across the past century and the innovative University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign scholars behind them.“Arguments for Lear...More

Key Themes & Discussion Points (AI generated!) 0:00 – 1:08 | Introduction & Dual Approach Overview

Overview of generative AI in education from practical and theoretical perspectives

1:08 – 2:32 | Histor...More