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

AI Companions are becoming a part of teenager's lives.

Teachers and students find ways for AI to support learning.

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.

Teaching contemporary poets to engage students.

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.

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.

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.

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 "division actors."

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? Walking us through the past, present, and future of social studies and civic education are Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, and Adam Laats, Historian and Professor of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership at Binghamton University.