Podcast Episode · Tea for Teaching · 10/01/2025 · 46m

A Q&A with Marc Watkins, director of the AI Institute for Teachers.

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

The very real frustration teachers have over rampant AI usage in classrooms is growing. I think it is fair to say higher education lacks any sort of vision or collective point of view about generative AI’s place on college campuses.

I had the privilege of moderating a discussion between Josh Eyler and Robert Cummings about the future of AI in education at the University of Mississippi’s recent AI Winter Institute for Teachers.

Learning requires friction. Here’s how to get students to disclose and evaluate their own usage of tools like ChatGPT.

The mood around AI in education has taken a markedly darker tone of late.

Last week, Jefferey Young from Edsurge published a podcast episode When the Teaching Assistant is an ‘AI’ Twin of the Professor with an interview from me where I pushed back on this emerging trend of educators uploading their own writing to chatbots to create a “digital twin” for students to interact with.

My sincere thanks to those who helped support the creation of The Beyond ChatGPT series by subscribing to my newsletter. Your continued support has helped me carve out the time to research AI’s impact on skill development this summer. I’m committed to keeping the content of this series open to all. Moving forward, I’ll be revisiting each one of these past essays to explore ways educators can ethically use AI with students to help them learn or ways they can include intentional friction in the learning process to counter AI’s marketing promise of a frictionless learning experience.