Creativity and Edu Innovation: AI & Digitization for Problem Solving in Your Classroom

I’ve been building widgets lately. Not the shiny, complicated ones that only a seasoned developer could love—but classroom-ready tools that help my students see ideas more clearly and interact with their learning. I call this work “vibe coding,” but the name isn’t mine. It comes from a broader movement—one that’s quietly reshaping how non-developers like us can design educational technology with AI assistance. In a recent article on Medium, Niall McNulty defines vibe coding as the practice of describing what you want in natural language while AI handles the bulk of the programming work. The term, originally sparked by AI pioneer Andrej Karpathy, is elegant: let users in this case teachers, focus on the what and the why, and let AI carry more of the how. Why Vibe Coding Matters for Us As teachers and instructional designers, we’ve long had ideas for tools that could help our learners—interactive maps, click-and-drag sorters, animated quizzes, or self-grading checklists—but we’ve often b...