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Jesse Dukes on Teaching Through Emotions
One of the best parts of doing research on education is talking with students. Not only do we learn a great deal about what is happenign in schools, it's often inspiring. Betsy Burris agrees. She is…
AI Literacy Part II "What We Talk About When We Talk About AI Literacy"
Teachers are aware that AI is present in schools and learning environments, whether we like it or not. And many feel pressure, internally and externally, to learn and teach some form of "AI…
AI Literacy Part 1 "Where Angels Fear to Tread" with Sam Wineburg
Over the last two years, teachers and schools have felt immense pressure to incorporate AI literacy into their curricula. In the fall of 2024, California became the first state to pass a law…
Click Here: Silencing a Kindergarten
We’re pleased to share powerful reporting from our friends at the show Click Here, from Recorded Future News and PRX. They tell true stories about the people making and breaking our digital world.…
The Homework Machine Ep 7: Break the Teacher
The timing of the arrival of AI has been bad for many schools and teachers. In the Fall of 2022, schools were just emerging from the extraordinary challenges brought by the pandemic. Teacher morale…
Close All Tabs: Teens Under the Influence (Of Chatbots)
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The Homework Machine Ep 6 "Inviting AI to the Party"
We keep saying that most ed tech is invited into schools, but generative AI crashed the party. But the truth in, some teachers have invited AI into schools. Some think it’s been great, and others see…
The Homework Machine Ep 5 "Winterset"
Education technology companies have been falling over themselves to provide AI powered tools for schools, and to convince schools to buy their product. The array of AI powered products is dizzying,…
The Homework Machine Interlude: Justin Goes Back to School
We’re halfway through “The Homework Machine” series, and as our production team works to finish the final episodes, we check in with Teaching Systems Lab director Justin Reich, who is returning to…
Mindshift: Why Poetry Is Making a Comeback in Schools
We’re about halfway through The Homework Machine min-series, and we have more episodes coming. We're taking a break this week, which gives us the opportunity to share an episode of one of our…
The Homework Machine Ep 4 "Busted!"
Students tell us that they know learning in schools is important. But sometimes, turning to ChatGPT to get their work done feels like the best option. AI might help with what they perceive as busy…
The Homework Machine Ep 3 "The Duplicitous Nature of Humanity"
Teachers have all sorts of opinions about AI. Some are optimistic, some are pessimistic. But the most common topic that came up in our interviews was cheating.While students have always taken…
The Homework Machine Ep 2 "The Jagged Frontier"
ChatGPT is the most well known of the Large Language Models (LLMs) but what is an LLM? We go deep into how this remarkable new technology is built, and why their performance is inconsistent — or…
The Homework Machine Ep 1 "Buckle Up, Here it Comes!"
In late November of 2022, ChatGPT was released to the public as a free research preview. Students quickly realized ChatGPT was pretty good at doing their homework for them. Schools scrambled to…
Coming Soon: The Homework Machine
Generative AI is not like other education technologies, which schools often invite into the classroom. This one crashed the party. And then, it started re-arranging the furniture. We wanted to learn…
Maybe We Should be a Little Worried About AI + Cheating?
School leaders, education researchers, and others often point to a study conducted by Stanford researchers that suggested the arrival of generative AI in K-12 school has not meaningfully increased…
AI Summarizes Our Paper About AI
Justin Reich and researcher and producer Jesse Dukes argue that AI in requires a new theoretical framework. Generative AI, unlike many teaching technologies, is an "arrival" technology, meaning it…
Back to School with AI: Are Teachers Getting the Training They Need?
Jesse Dukes reports from a two day training one school district offered its teachers, all to help them adapt to the arrival of generative AI in schools. That training proved helpful to teachers, but…
Bot Fun in the Summertime: Teachers Adapting to AI
We've just wrapped up a school year, so our team researching the arrival of generative AI in classrooms shares some fun and inspiring moments of teachers adapting to the new reality. We hear from…
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…
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