Mind Shift: Learning 2049
Exploring the impact of AI on education and academia. Detailed conversations with top experts.
Episodes
What happens when a university commits to being "AI-first"? In this conversation, Associate Professor Sarah Midford (interim Pro Vice Chancellor of Learning and Teaching at La Trobe University) joins us to discuss how generative AI is shifting higher education from product-oriented grading to process-based assessment, the realities of teaching AI literacy, and what universities might look like in 2049.This conversation interrogates...
What happens when advanced AI is used to train humans in high-stakes environments? In this conversation, Dr. Jeanine DeFalco (Founder and CEO of Mixta AI) joins us to discuss the ethics, cognitive psychology, and design of adaptive instructional systems.
This conversation goes beyond typical AI hype to interrogate the hard questions:
What happens when educational systems prioritize simple completion metrics over genuine, deep...
What happens to higher education when the "proxy" for thinking—the academic essay—is broken by Generative AI? In this episode of Mind Shift, Adam White and Robert Wells are joined by Cassie Thu Ngan Ngo to discuss the urgent need to move beyond banning AI and toward "AI Literacy."Cassie discusses some of the findings of her research into AI in higher education, "Integrating AI literacy into EAP: A pathway to academic su...
What happens when AI meets the deeply human work of qualitative research? In this conversation, Dr. David Marshall (Auburn University) and Dr. David Naff (Virginia Commonwealth University) discuss their study on the ethics of artificial intelligence in educational research, "The Ethics of Using Artificial Intelligence in Qualitative Research" (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38881315/).This conversation goes beyond typical AI hype ...
In this conversation, with Bassem Nasir, we explore the challenges that face educators in light of the money and power of big tech. We touch on the underlying purposes for education and whether AI might move us towards or away from these goals.Bassem Nasir is an education specialist at UNICEF. He has extensive leadership experience in education, youth development, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and corporate responsibility havin...
In the debut episode of this six-part series, Robert Wells and Adam White dive into AI, the "transformative technology" currently disrupting academia. From the staggering rise in student usage to the "flatfooted" response of institutional leadership, Robert and Adam explore whether AI is a tool for scaffolding better learning or a shortcut to cognitive decline.
They move beyond the simple "cheating" narrative to discuss the philosop...
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