episodes dedicated to
Creativity and Generative AI
Our podcast collections bring together episodes focused on specific creativity and education topics, like our Generative AI collection, which explores insights, strategies, and forward-thinking approaches to understanding how this transformative technology will impact creativity and shape the future of education.
Collection Highlights
Understanding Transformational Creativity: Dr. Robert Sternberg on Education, Leadership, and AI
How Generative AI is Changing Divergent Thinking in the Classroom with Todd Lubart
Ideas to Explore and Evaluate Chat GPT with Dr. James Diamond
Building Robots to Support Childhood Creativity with Dr. Patrícia Alves-Oliveira
Computational Creativity and Human AI Co-Creativity with Dr. Janet Rafner
About This Collection
Generative AI is an emerging field that stands to reshape the landscape of creativity and education. Since we first began exploring its influence in 2021, prior to the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022, this technology has rapidly advanced, sparking new conversations and considerations across the education sector. Our Generative AI collection delves into this transformative field, addressing a range of topics from the unique challenges AI presents in fostering authentic creativity, to the opportunities it offers for enhancing learning experiences. Through interviews with leading researchers and forward-thinking educators, we explore the evolving role of generative AI, examining both its potential and its complexities as it intersects with teaching, learning, and creative development.
Selected Episodes
The Value of Small Wins and the Progress Principle (Double Expresso)
Season 10, Episode 13 The Value of Small Wins and the Progress Principle (Part Two) “Well, kids are going to make mistakes, and what you need is the equivalent of what we saw in some of these teams. And that is celebrating failure value, celebrating what you can learn...
AI Literacy in Education and the Digital Divide
Season 10, Episode 5 AI Literacy in Education and the Digital Divide “We already have college essays requiring gen AI use and we already have applications for jobs saying AI literacy, ChatGPT, prompt engineering. And so saying that kids can't use this and it is...
Education, Leadership, AI, and Transformational Creativity (Double Expresso)
Season 9, Episode 14 Understanding Transformational Creativity: Education, Leadership, and AI“ Transformational creativity is where you teach kids not only to be creative, but to be creative in a world that. To make the world better, to make the world a better place...
Ideas to Explore and Evaluate Chat GPT
In this episode of the Fueling Creativity in Education Podcast, Dr. Matthew Worwood and Dr. Cyndi Burnett dive into the fascinating world of technology tools in education with special guest Dr. Jim Diamond.
Building Robots to Support Childhood Creativity (Double Expresso)
In Part 2 of this double espresso interview, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood continue speaking with Dr. Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, a Postdoctoral Researcher who focuses on designing human-robot interaction. Patrícia is interested in leveraging the qualities of social robots to empower human health and education, foster creativity in children, and improve mental health among adolescents.
Discussing Beauty Over Functionality and Malevolent Creativity
In this episode of Fueling Creativity, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood speak with world-renowned author and Professor of Engineering Innovation, Dr. David Cropley, about the psychology and ethics of creativity and innovation in the context of technology, engineering, and design. Listen in to learn how educators can prepare students to be better equipped to work with machine learning and AI in creative and problem-solving environments.
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and the Future of Creativity
In this episode of Fueling Creativity, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood speak with Bryan Alexander, an award–winning, internationally recognized futurist, researcher, writer, speaker, consultant, and teacher.
AI and Creativity: Opportunities and Challenges in Education (Double Expresso)
In this double expresso of the Fueling Creativity in Education podcast, Dr. Matthew Worwood and Dr. Cyndi Burnett welcome back to the show Dr. James Kaufman, a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut and one of the leading researchers in the field of creativity.
Best Practices for Experimenting with Generative AI in the classroom
In this episode of the Fueling Creativity in Education Podcast, Fuat Ramazanov joins us to discuss the intricate balance between human creativity and artificial intelligence (AI) in the modern classroom.
Generative AI, Creative Potential, and Multiple Intelligences (Special Feature)
In this episode of the Fueling Creativity in Education podcast, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood speak with Dr. Howard Gardner, renowned psychologist and creator of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences.
How Generative AI is changing divergent thinking (Double Expresso)
In part two of this double expresso of the Fueling Creativity in Education podcast, Dr. Todd Lubart discusses the evolving landscape of creative potential and education. With insights drawn from his extensive research in creativity, Dr. Lubart delves into the changing nature of divergent thinking in the digital age.
Computational Creativity and Human-AI Co-creativity
In this episode of the Fueling Creativity in Education Podcast, Dr. Janet Rafner, a distinguished expert in human-AI interaction and creativity, joins hosts Drs. Matthew Worwood and Cyndi Burnett to delve into the world of computational creativity and human-AI co-creativity.