TeachLab with Justin Reich

Episode

• Jesse Dukes on Teaching Through Emotions 25.02.2026 55mnt

  Teaching Through Emotions interviews Jesse Dukes about The Homework Machine.
• AI Literacy Part II "What We Talk About When We Talk About AI Literacy" 06.02.2026 55mnt

  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.
• AI Literacy Part 1 "Where Angels Fear to Tread" with Sam Wineburg 29.01.2026 32mnt

  Schools and teachers are being directed to teach and learn "AI Literacy" but do we know enough to do that responsibly?
• Click Here: Silencing a Kindergarten 26.11.2025 35mnt

  In a small classroom in western China, children once learned to sing and count in the language of their ancestors — Uyghur. Then the doors were locked, and founder Abduweli Ayup went from teacher to enemy of the state.
• The Homework Machine Ep 7: Break the Teacher 02.10.2025 38mnt

  Generative AI has added more strain to an already frayed education system.
• Close All Tabs: Teens Under the Influence (Of Chatbots) 26.09.2025 35mnt

  AI Companions are becoming a part of teenager's lives.
• The Homework Machine Ep 6 "Inviting AI to the Party" 18.09.2025 41mnt

  Teachers and students find ways for AI to support learning.
• The Homework Machine Ep 5 "Winterset" 09.09.2025 43mnt

  One school system in Iowa goes all in on AI.
• The Homework Machine Interlude: Justin Goes Back to School 04.09.2025 26mnt

  Our host reckons with AI as he returns to the classroom after a one year break.
• Mindshift: Why Poetry Is Making a Comeback in Schools 27.08.2025 26mnt

  Teaching contemporary poets to engage students.
• The Homework Machine Ep 4 "Busted!" 18.08.2025 36mnt

  Students tell us why they turn to AI to get their schoolwork done.
• The Homework Machine Ep 3 "The Duplicitous Nature of Humanity" 12.08.2025 32mnt

  Teachers share how they’re dealing with cheating in the age of AI.
• The Homework Machine Ep 2 "The Jagged Frontier" 05.08.2025 32mnt

  LLMs are weird. They can perform very well and very poorly, often unpredictably, and that creates unique challenges for education.
• The Homework Machine Ep 1 "Buckle Up, Here it Comes!" 29.07.2025 32mnt

  Most education technologies are invited into school. Generative AI crashed the party.
• Coming Soon: The Homework Machine 25.07.2025 3mnt

  Most education technologies are invited in by schools. But generative AI crashed the party.
• Maybe We Should be a Little Worried About AI + Cheating? 16.12.2024 33mnt

  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 03.12.2024 26mnt

  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? 22.08.2024 45mnt

  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 02.07.2024 48mnt

  Our research team shares inspiring examples of teachers adapting to the arrival of generative AI in the classroom.
• Dispatches From the Integrity Trenches 13.05.2024 36mnt

  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.