TeachLab with Justin Reich

TeachLab with Justin Reich

TeachLab is a podcast that investigates the art and craft of teaching. There are 3.5 million K-12 teachers in America, and we want to explore how they can become even better at what they do. Hosted by Justin Reich, MIT Professor and director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab.

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Dec. 16, 2024

Maybe We Should be a Little Worried About AI + Cheating?

A study published a year ago suggests that ChatGPT and other generative AI hasn't led to increased cheating in K-12 schools. But maybe there's more going on than we realize.
Dec. 3, 2024

AI Summarizes Our Paper About AI

Justin Reich and Jesse Dukes discuss their new preprint "Toward a New Theory of Arrival Technologies: The Case of ChatGPT and the Future of Education Technology after Adoption" and let AI do the hard work of summarizing it.
Aug. 22, 2024

Back to School with AI: Are Teachers Getting the Training They Need?

We visit a school district offering two days of training to help teachers adapt to the arrival of AI in the classroom. It's GREAT, but that district is an exception.
July 2, 2024

Bot Fun in the Summer: Teachers Adapting to AI

Our research team shares inspiring examples of teachers adapting to the arrival of generative AI in the classroom.
May 13, 2024

Dispatches From the Integrity Trenches

The Arrival of AI powered tools like ChatGPT (now GPT4) in schools has generated concerns that students would use the tool to bypass cognition, or, “cheat” as we colloquially call it. And, it appears many students are doing …
April 25, 2024

The Arrival of the Homework Machine

By spring of 2023, most students with an internet connection had access to a new tool that could do much of their homework. We hear Justin’s keynote at the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education about the arrival of …

About the Host

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Justin Reich

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Justin Reich is an associate professor of digital media in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing department at MIT and the director of the Teaching Systems Lab. He is the author of Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education, and the host of the TeachLab Podcast. He earned his doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was the Richard L. Menschel HarvardX Research Fellow. He is a past Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society. His writings have been published in Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington Post, The Atlantic, and other scholarly journals and public venues. He started his career as a high school history teacher, and coach of wrestling and outdoor adventure activities.