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As a scholar-practitioner, Matthew Worwood uses this space to explore the intersection of generative AI, creativity, professional learning, and design. His writing questions assumptions, reflects on emerging trends, shares values, and connects research with real-world practice to better understand how educators can prepare for the future of teaching and learning.

 

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The Future of Creativity in AI-Augmented Classrooms

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into educational settings, we must reimagine what creativity means for both teachers and students. This article explores how educators can leverage AI tools while maintaining the human elements that make creative teaching transformative.

  • October 15, 2025
  • 8 min read

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Breaking Down Barriers to Creative Teaching

Many educators want to teach more creatively but face systemic barriers—from standardized testing pressures to limited resources. Drawing from research and real-world examples, this piece examines the obstacles to creative pedagogy and practical strategies to overcome them.

  • October 8, 2025
  • 6 min read

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Thinking Inside the Box: Teachers as Designers

Teachers are designers. We even have a related field of study called instructional design. Design is about solving problems and solving problems within the constraints of a box. That's why teachers must think inside the box.
  • February 20, 2024
  • 8 min read

Evaluating our approach to teaching Divergent Thinking

  • February 7, 2024

AI Literacy, Co-Creativity, and Generative AI

AI Literacy can help students know when they are most likely to experience errors, bias, and the potential for misinformation, which might help emphasize the value of human judgment. And understanding how generative AI uses prompts to make predictions can assist future creatives in ideation.
  • January 31, 2024

Is Design Thinking Dead?

As a mindset, design thinking remains highly relevant across various fields and contexts; design thinking is a collection of principles promoting data use to validate ideas and inform how we solve real-world problems.​
  • January 25, 2024

Will Generative AI be the Great Equalizer in Education?

Some educators speak about generative AI being a future equalizer in education and the fight to close the achievement gap.
  • January 16, 2024

Rethinking Online Teaching Assessments

Are Discussion Forums and Journal Assignments as Teaching Assessments the First Major Examples of Generative AI's disruptive force? I am experiencing this question as I teach my winter intersession class that - ironically - is about online behaviors and values.
  • January 8, 2024

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