The AI in education conversation has been captured by one idea - how do we stop students cheating? It's the wrong question

Dr Punya Mishra is a learning scientist at Arizona State University and co-creator of TPACK — the most-cited framework for technology integration in teaching. What sets Punya apart is that he's not just a commentator — he's building learning experiences at an innovative university with an agile culture that rewards risk. And in his practice he's asking much better questions:

• How can educators treat AI as a creative partner rather than a threat to manage?
• How to turn what he calls a “smart, drunk, sycophantic intern” into an experience that challenges students rather than feeds them slop
• And what parts of learning should stay deliberately hard – where do students need to struggle?

To find out more about Punya's work, visit his website at https://punyamishra.com/

00:00 Intro

01:21 What's most exciting about the use of generative AI in education and what makes you most nervous?

07:27 AI-driven learning design in action: the Unit Circle Demo

13:04 How can AI become a useful thinking partner for students?

20:19 The Novice's Dilemma

26:42 The need for cognitive struggle

31:37 Punya's advice on how to start designing learning experiences with AI

37:55 How Arizona State encourages innovation

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Jen Pahlka is the author of Recoding America and a pioneer in making government work for people in the digital age.

She founded Code for America in 2010 and in 2013, took a leave of absence to serve as Deputy CTO in the Obama White House and help found the United States Digital Service.

In 2020, she co-founded United States Digital Response, which helps government meet the needs of the public with volunteer tech support.

Her TED Talk, “Coding a Better Government,” has been viewed over 1M times and Wired magazine named her as one of the 25 people who has most shaped the past 25 years.

Recoding America gets right to the heart of what current and future leaders need to be thinking about to make public services better for everyone.

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Mark is a Deputy Director at the UK Government’s Ministry of Justice, where he leads Probation Digital.

Mark studied law and became a barrister, drawn to the humanity exposed in criminal cases. However, he found it difficult to make a living in this field and moved into commercial law, where he “lost my passion”. He found a new calling in government and joined the MoJ in 2010. Since then, he’s been given the brief of operationalising GDS as its first Head of Agile, launched DfE’s flagship Apprenticeships Service and now leads the delivery of the digital Probation portfolio at MoJ.

Our co-founder met Mark at the Government Digital Service in 2013 and he's been privileged to work with him and learn from him at several government departments since then.

They had a slogan at the Government Digital Service - Trust, Users, Delivery - and in this episode they talk about how these three concepts are at the heart of Mark’s approach to developing government services and and how bringing policy, delivery and operations together can be a game-changer.

0:00 Intro

0:50 Mark’s backstory

3:37 Climbing on the AlphaGov bandwagon

6:17 How trust can be given, rather than earned

8:05 Why empowerment is essential for agile ways-of-working

10:40 Why government struggles to focus on end users

12:39 Leading the digital Apprenticeships service

14:35 Being in the hot seat on a priority government delivery

18:30 How digital helps deliver MoJ’s probation strategy

23:25 Digital is the business

24:00 What’s next for Probation Digital

26:20 Inspirational leaders

28:45 Lesson learned for new leaders in digital roles

Follow Mark Stanley on Twitter at @moonkin

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