Publications and Reports

Thought Leaders on Learning and AI

CyberScholar Research and Development

Castro, Vania, Ana Karina de Oliveira Nascimento, Raigul Zheldibayeva, Duane Searsmith, Akash Saini, Bill Cope, and Mary Kalantzis. 2025. "Generative AI in K-12 Education: The CyberScholar Initiative." arXiv 2502.19422. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.19422.

Cope, Bill, Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, and Duane Searsmith. 2025. Human-Machine Knowledge Experience (KX) AI Support and Evaluation System with Contribution Tracking. US Patent Office filed 5 May.

Saini, Akash K., Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis, and Gabriela C. Zapata. 2024. "The Future of Feedback: Integrating Peer and Generative AI Reviews to Support Student Work." EdArXiv. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.35542/osf.io/x3dct.

Tzirides, Anastasia O. (Olnancy), Gabriela Zapata, Nikoleta Polyxeni Kastania, Akash K. Saini, Vania Carvalho de Castro, Sakinah Abdul Rahman Ismael, Yu-ling You, Tamara Afonso dos Santos, Duane Searsmith, Casey O’Brien, Bill Cope, and Mary Kalantzis. 2024. "Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced AI Literacy in Higher Education." Computers and Education Open CAEO 100184: 1-13. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2024.100184.

Tzirides, Anastasia O., Akash Saini, Gabriela Zapata, Duane Searsmith, Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis, Vania Carvalho de Castro, Theodora Kourkoulou, John Jones, Rodrigo Abrantes da Silva, Jen Whiting, and Nikoleta Polyxeni Kastania. 2024. "Generative AI in Education: Reflections from Application with Student Work." In Trust and Inclusion in AI-Mediated Education: Where Human Learning Meets Learning Machines, edited by Theodora Kourkoulou, Anastasia O. Tzirides, Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, 287-302. Cham CH: Springer.

Tzirides, Anastasia O., Gabriela Zapata, Patrick Bolger, Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis, and Duane Searsmith. 2025. "Assessing AI-Generated Feedback Quality: Instructor Perspectives on Fine-Tuned GenAI for Higher Education Student Writing." International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Helsinki.

Tzirides, Anastasia Olga (Olnancy), Bill Cope, and Mary Kalantzis. 2025. "Contextual AI Meets Generative AI: Addressing the Literacy Crisis." In AI Literacy: Foundations, Practices, and Innovations in Education, edited by Zoi A. Traga Philippakos, Eleni Katsarou and Konstantinos Sipitanos. London: Routledge.

Tzirides, Anastasia Olga (Olnancy), Michele Galla, Bill Cope, and Mary Kalantzis. 2025. "Thinking Through AI: Advancing Cognitive and Collaborative Research for AI in Education." EdArXiv. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.35542/osf.io/s8hqe.

Zapata, Gabriela C., Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis, and Duane Searsmith. 2025. "Calibrated Generative AI as Meta-Reviewer: A Systemic Functional Linguistics Discourse Analysis of Reviews of Peer Reviews." arXiv 2509.15035. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.15035.

Zapata, Gabriela C., Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis, Anastasia Olga Tzirides, Akash Saini, Duane Searsmith, Jennifer Whiting, Paulina Kastania, Vania Castro, Theodora Kourkoulou, John W. Jones, and Rodrigo Abrantes da Silva. 2025. "AI and Peer Reviews in Higher Education: Students’ Multimodal Views on Benefits, Differences, and Limitations." Technology, Pedagogy and Education: 1–19. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/1475939X.2025.2480807.

Zapata, Gabriela C., Akash K. Saini, Anastasia O. Tzirides, Bill Cope, and Mary Kalantzis. 2024. "The Role of AI Feedback in University Students’ Learning Experiences: An Exploration Grounded in Activity Theory." Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal 18 (2): 1-30. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.18848/1835-9795/CGP/v18i02/1-30.

Zapata, Gabriela C., Anastasia Olga (Olnancy) Tzirides, Bill Cope, Yu-ling You, Mary Kalantzis, and Duane Searsmith. 2025. "A Systemic Functional Linguistics Discourse Analysis of Learner-Centered, Generative AI Feedback in Higher Education." EdArXiv. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.35542/osf.io/nuhq2_v1.

Zheldibayeva, Raigul Serikovna, Ana Karina de Oliveira Nascimento, Vania Castro, Mary Kalantzis, and Bill Cope. 2025. "The Impact of AI-driven Tools on Student Writing Development: A Case Study." Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies 15 (1): 1-15. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.30935/ojcmt/xxxx.

On Digital Media and Learning

Cope, Bill, and Mary Kalantzis. 2024. "On Cyber-Social Learning: A Critique of Artificial Intelligence in Education." In Trust and Inclusion in AI-Mediated Education: Where Human Learning Meets Learning Machines, edited by Theodora Kourkoulou, Anastasia O. Tzirides, Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, 3-34. Cham CH: Springer.

---. 2025. "Generative Transpositions: The (Anti-)Grammar of Text-Semantic, CyberSocial Intelligence." Multimodality and Society Forthcoming.

Cope, Bill, Mary Kalantzis, and Gabriela C. Zapata. 2025. "Language Learning After Generative AI." In Generative AI Technologies, Multiliteracies, and Language Education, edited by Gabriela C. Zapata, 14-39. London: Routledge.

Galla, Michele, Bill Cope, and Mary Kalantzis. 2025. "Generative AI Turns Bloom’s Taxonomy Upside-Down: Implications for Creativity and Learning." In Oxford Handbook of Human Creativity x Generative AI in Education, edited by Ronald A. Beghetto. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kalantzis, Mary, and Bill Cope. 2025a. "Literacy in the Time of Artificial Intelligence." Reading Research Quarterly 60 (1/e591): 1-34. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.591.

---. 2025b. "Multiliteracies Since Social Media and Artificial Intelligence." Harvard Educational Review 95 (1): 135–51. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.17763/1943-5045-95.1.135.

Kalantzis-Cope, Phillip. 2017. The Work and Play of the Mind in the Information Age: Whose Property? Cham CH: Palgrave/Springer.

Zapata, Gabriela C., Bill Cope, and Mary Kalantzis. 2026. Literacies in the Age of AI: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Era. Oxford UK: Wiley.