TeachLab with Justin Reich

Dec 15 2024 89 ep. 41 mins 54

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

Dec 15 2024 33 mins

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.

AI Summarizes Our Paper About AI

Dec 02 2024 26 mins

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.

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

Aug 21 2024 45 mins

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.

Bot Fun in the Summertime: Teachers Adapting to AI

Jul 01 2024 48 mins

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

Dispatches From the Integrity Trenches

May 13 2024 36 mins

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.

The Arrival of the Homework Machine

Apr 24 2024 60 mins

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’

Upper MiddleBrow - Tales of Teachers

Nov 03 2023 73 mins

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 protagonist

Civics 101: Civics Education 2 - When the Curriculum is Against the Law

Oct 27 2023 29 mins

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 choos

Civics 101: Civics Education 1 - What Do We Teach?

Oct 20 2023 29 mins

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 perpet

Iterate: Haley McDevitt

Oct 13 2023 24 mins

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 Inno