Episodes

Teaching Through Emotions interviews Jesse Dukes about The Homework Machine.

Teachers face a dilemma. They know we may not know the best way to teach students about how to prepare for AI, but many feel we have to do something.

Schools and teachers are being directed to teach and learn "AI Literacy" but do we know enough to do that responsibly?

Generative AI has added more strain to an already frayed education system.

Young people are increasingly turning to AI “companion” chatbots to meet their emotional needs.

Using AI to support learning requires human knowledge.

One school system in Iowa goes all in on AI.

Our host reckons with AI as he returns to the classroom after a one year break.

Students tell us why they turn to AI to get their schoolwork done.

Teachers share how they’re dealing with cheating in the age of AI.

LLMs are weird. They can perform very well and very poorly, often unpredictably, and that creates unique challenges for education.

Most education technologies are invited into school. Generative AI crashed the party.

Most education technologies are invited in by schools. But generative AI crashed the party.

Coming later this summer, the Homework Machine, a mini-series from Teachlab about how generative AI arrived in schools, whether they wanted it or not.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 just that. Early on in our research project about generative AI’s arrival in schools, it seems that English, ELL, and Social Studies at upper levels are particularly likely to encounter students using AI, without permission, to complete assignments. Justin talks to Jesse Duke...

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 generative AI in schools, from last fall. Then, Justin talks to Jesse Dukes about an ongoing TSL research project to understand teachers’, school leaders’, and students’ experiences of generative AI in schools.

Today we share another great episode from our friends at Upper MiddleBrow. As students, parents, and teachers happily (or wrenchingly) returned to school, Upper MiddleBrow invited TeachLab host Justin Reich to talk about stories with teachers. They identify many examples of bad teachers and bad teaching in fiction, and while film and TV often present sympathetic teacher protagonists, they wonder if the Great American Teacher novel is yet to be written. Resources and Links Check out Upper MiddleB...

Civics 101 is a podcast refresher course on the basics of how the U.S. government works, born from the brain trust at New Hampshire Public Radio and hosted by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice. This is the second part in their series about the state of civic education in the US. In this episode, TeachLab host Justin Reich joins the Civics 101 team to talk about how teachers choose what to teach, so-called "divisive concepts laws," and how we can approach disagreements without falling prey to "d...

Civics 101 is a podcast refresher course on the basics of how the U.S. government works, born from the brain trust at New Hampshire Public Radio and hosted by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice. Today is the first part in their series about the state of civic education in the US. In this episode, the Civics 101 team gauges how we're doing civics-wise and then delve into the perpetually controversial history of history; have we ever agreed upon a narrative for our nation that we can teach students...

In our final episode in our Iterate series, we are joined by one of our favorite collaborators here at the Teaching Systems Lab: artist, creative professional and graphic recorder, Haley McDevitt. Haley is a master of listening, synthesizing, and creating visuals that support big ideas. And, Haley is the illustrator of our host Justin Reich’s new book, Iterate: The Secret to Innovation in Schools . Justin and Haley go behind the scenes to share the creative process for the book’s illustrations....