New Learning’s Updates

  • The Ends of Tests: Possibilities for Transformative Assessment and Learning with Generative AI

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    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

  • Reinforcement Learning: From Behaviorism to Artificial Intelligence (and Back Again)

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    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

  • 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

  • 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

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