Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope

The latest mutation of Artificial Intelligence, “Generative AI,” is more than anything a technology of writing. Generative AI is a machine that can write. In a world-historical frame, the significance of this cannot...More

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The College of Education’s Learning Design and Leadership program is celebrating its 25th anniversary this fall. The program has long assumed a leadership role in helping educators use technology tools to enhance teaching and learning

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We have an open-rank position opening up in our program at the University of Illinois

About the Learning Design and Leadership (LDL) program:

Research

The LDL program hosts the Cyber-social Research Laboratory. The principal interests of t...More

The New London Group, 1994

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 o...More

Reclining Woman, c.4000-2500BCE, National Museum of Archaeology, Malta

The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 precipitated a panic among some educators while prompting qualified enthusiasm from others. Under the umbrella term “Generative AI,...More

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Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis

Fig. 4: Computers are machines that transpose human meanings through binary notation

Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a defining technology of our time, a source of fear as often as inspiration. Immersed...More

The Learning Design and Leadership (LDL) program addresses the theories and practices of learning in the context of digital media and learner diversity. Its focus is on innovative practices in a wide range of sites, including formal education...More

Listen to this interview of Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, creators of the e-learning platform CGScholar.com and also professors at the College of Education, University of Illinois. We talk about monastic instruction in the sixth century, we text...More