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Press coverage, interviews, and public conversations on educational technology, the maker movement, and AI in education.
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IFE Conference 2025: The Promise and Real Potential of AI in Education
Coverage of Tec de Monterrey’s IFE Conference 2025, where Blikstein and Michael Fung weighed the real potential — and the hype — of AI in education.
Technology in Education: “The Teacher Is Still What Matters Most”
Interview arguing that, even amid rapid edtech advances, the teacher remains the decisive factor in how students learn.
This TC Student Designed an Award-Winning AI Teaching Tool
Feature on Curiously, the award-winning no-code platform built in Blikstein’s lab to help teachers create trustworthy, customized AI learning companions.
Technology Is Effective Only When Integrated into the Curriculum
On digital inclusion: technology becomes effective only when woven into the curriculum, not bolted on as an extra.
Talking About Technology in Schools Means Talking About Education and Political Choices
Argues that debating technology in schools is inseparable from questions about education itself — and about political choices.
Sesi Com@Ciência: Putting the Technology of Innovation and Creativity to Work for Education
Coverage of the Sesi Com@Ciência session on putting the technologies of innovation and creativity to work for education.
Can Piaget Explain Jair Bolsonaro?
Op-ed using developmental psychology to make sense of political reasoning and misinformation in Brazil.
Hybrid Learning, Technology, and Teacher Training
In an interview with O Globo, argues Brazil must first universalize internet access and train teachers before it can regulate hybrid learning.
Technologies for an Education with Equity: New Horizons for Brazil
Launch of the report proposing a long-term educational-technology strategy for Brazil after the pandemic’s edtech blackout.
Will the Coronavirus Infect Education, Too?
Op-ed on protecting equitable learning as schools rushed online during the pandemic.
The Pedagogy of the Oppressed or the Pedagogy of WhatsApp?
Op-ed contrasting Freire’s emancipatory pedagogy with the manipulation of citizens through messaging apps.
Classroom, Disrupted
Feature on how Blikstein and Stanford colleagues are rethinking classroom technology and the maker movement.
On the Efficacy of Maker Ed: It’s About Process, Not Products
Argues the success of maker education should be measured by process, not products, as schools shift from whether to how to scale it.
Remembering Seymour Papert, a Thinker Who Thought About Thinking
A remembrance of Seymour Papert in which Blikstein reflects on children programming the computer, not the reverse.
4 Maker Myths, Debunked
From SXSWedu, Blikstein debunks four persistent myths about the maker movement in schools.
Ideas for Improving Science Education
Contribution to a New York Times forum proposing how hands-on making and modeling can strengthen science learning.
“Our Model of Education Is Dying”
An early interview in which Blikstein warns that the traditional model of education is dying — and must be reinvented.
Audio & Podcasts
Educação digital: até onde a tecnologia ajuda?
O Assunto · G1 / Globo · 2023
Other Interviews, OpEds, and News
AI, Ethics, and the Future of Work: Highlights of the IFE Conference 2026
Coverage of the IFE Conference 2026, where Blikstein argued that without solid pedagogical design technology can widen educational gaps.
Education’s New Frontier: FabLearn Fellows Pursue Innovation
How the FabLearn Fellows are designing maker-centered innovations for post-COVID classrooms.
Technology with a Pedagogical Purpose in Public Schools
Interview on adopting classroom technology with a clear pedagogical purpose rather than for novelty’s sake.
University Research Is Vital to How Society Functions
Argues that university research is vital to the functioning of society — never more so than during a crisis.
Debating Artificial Intelligence
With The Washington Post, examines how AI writing tools could flatten linguistic diversity and quietly shape how we write and think.