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Learning Curve
What does it mean to teach and learn in the age of generative AI? Join host Jeff Young as he talks with educators, tech leaders and students, aiming to cut through the hype and inform a conversation a...
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I'm starting a podcast!
I'm focusing on AI and education, exploring what it means to teach and learn when chatbots and other generative AI can do work that was once thought to be uniquely human. The podcast is called Learning Curve and the first episode is up. learningcurve.fm
I'm focusing on AI and education, exploring what it means to teach and learn when chatbots and other generative AI can do work that was once thought to be uniquely human. The podcast is called Learning Curve and the first episode is up. learningcurve.fm
AI is causing fear and anxiety for many students. That's what I heard when I set up a table in front of the student center at U of Minnesota and interviewed undergrads for Learning Curve podcast. I teamed up with the student newspaper to help produce this one: learningcurve.fm/episodes/why...
How Do Students Feel About Their AI Use? It's Complicated | Learning Curve
We set up a table at the University of Minnesota and asked students to share how they use AI in their studies — and how they feel about the technology. Fear was the common thread — Fear of being caugh...
learningcurve.fm
November 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
AI is causing fear and anxiety for many students. That's what I heard when I set up a table in front of the student center at U of Minnesota and interviewed undergrads for Learning Curve podcast. I teamed up with the student newspaper to help produce this one: learningcurve.fm/episodes/why...
Can AI Avatars Make Class Time More Human?
The latest episode of Learning Curve podcast explores colleges who see AI as a key tool for expanding "flipped classroom" approaches by making it easy to create teaching videos.
Some students find it creepy, though.
learningcurve.fm/episodes/can...
The latest episode of Learning Curve podcast explores colleges who see AI as a key tool for expanding "flipped classroom" approaches by making it easy to create teaching videos.
Some students find it creepy, though.
learningcurve.fm/episodes/can...
Can AI Avatars Make Class Time More Human? | Learning Curve
Colleges are experimenting with making online teaching videos featuring AI avatar versions of professors. Some students find the simulated likenesses of their instructors a bit creepy, but proponents ...
learningcurve.fm
October 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Can AI Avatars Make Class Time More Human?
The latest episode of Learning Curve podcast explores colleges who see AI as a key tool for expanding "flipped classroom" approaches by making it easy to create teaching videos.
Some students find it creepy, though.
learningcurve.fm/episodes/can...
The latest episode of Learning Curve podcast explores colleges who see AI as a key tool for expanding "flipped classroom" approaches by making it easy to create teaching videos.
Some students find it creepy, though.
learningcurve.fm/episodes/can...
If a critical mass of profs enter their lecture notes into AI tools to save a few minutes making their slides, is that giving away the store as far as their intellectual property? Are companies like Gamma amassing valuable sets of lecture notes?
learningcurvepodcast.substack.com/p/is-my-prof...
learningcurvepodcast.substack.com/p/is-my-prof...
Is My Professor Using AI to Teach?
If a critical mass of instructors enter their lecture notes into AI tools as prompts to save a few minutes making their slides, is that giving away the store as far as their intellectual property?
learningcurvepodcast.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
If a critical mass of profs enter their lecture notes into AI tools to save a few minutes making their slides, is that giving away the store as far as their intellectual property? Are companies like Gamma amassing valuable sets of lecture notes?
learningcurvepodcast.substack.com/p/is-my-prof...
learningcurvepodcast.substack.com/p/is-my-prof...
Is My Professor Using AI to Teach?
learningcurve.fm/episodes/is-...
learningcurve.fm/episodes/is-...
Is My Professor Using AI? | Learning Curve
Ella Stapleton noticed something unusual in lecture notes her professor handed out to students. Coverage of what happened next sparked discussion about misuse of AI in education – not by students tryi...
learningcurve.fm
October 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Is My Professor Using AI to Teach?
learningcurve.fm/episodes/is-...
learningcurve.fm/episodes/is-...
Learning Curve
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Learning Curve | Jeff Young | Substack
What does it mean to teach and learn in an age of generative AI? This is the newsletter for the Learning Curve podcast by education journalist Jeff Young. Click to read Learning Curve, by Jeff Young, ...
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September 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Learning Curve
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learningcurvepodcast.substack.com?r=61y900&utm...
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
In my own reporting I keep asking folks for examples of cost savings and significant improvements from AI, and I find folks hard-pressed to give concrete examples... this article in HBR digs into this issue more deeply...
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
In my own reporting I keep asking folks for examples of cost savings and significant improvements from AI, and I find folks hard-pressed to give concrete examples... this article in HBR digs into this issue more deeply...
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
hbr.org
September 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
In my own reporting I keep asking folks for examples of cost savings and significant improvements from AI, and I find folks hard-pressed to give concrete examples... this article in HBR digs into this issue more deeply...
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
In my own reporting I keep asking folks for examples of cost savings and significant improvements from AI, and I find folks hard-pressed to give concrete examples... this article in HBR digs into this issue more deeply...
I've started a Substack for Learning Curve podcast. I hope you'll sign up!
open.substack.com/pub/learning...
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Educators Need to Know How Generative AI 'Thinks'
Why one scholar argues that understanding what makes ChatGPT and other new AI tools tick is necessary to best harness the tech in classrooms.
open.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I've started a Substack for Learning Curve podcast. I hope you'll sign up!
open.substack.com/pub/learning...
open.substack.com/pub/learning...
“Like students facing hard exam questions, large language models sometimes guess when uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty," say researchers in a new study showing AI hallucinations are fundamental to the tech
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
“Like students facing hard exam questions, large language models sometimes guess when uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty," say researchers in a new study showing AI hallucinations are fundamental to the tech
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
Will AI Bring More Student Disengagement?
This just dropped - latest episode of Learning Curve podcast. I talked with Rebecca Winthrop, co-author of The Disengaged Teen - and a high school student giving her view on the pros and cons of AI for student motivation.
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wil...
This just dropped - latest episode of Learning Curve podcast. I talked with Rebecca Winthrop, co-author of The Disengaged Teen - and a high school student giving her view on the pros and cons of AI for student motivation.
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wil...
Will AI Bring More Student Disengagement? | Learning Curve
If students are already prone to check out in school, it really doesn’t help to look over and see students secretly having ChatGPT do their work for them. The co-author of the new book on student dise...
learningcurve.fm
September 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Will AI Bring More Student Disengagement?
This just dropped - latest episode of Learning Curve podcast. I talked with Rebecca Winthrop, co-author of The Disengaged Teen - and a high school student giving her view on the pros and cons of AI for student motivation.
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wil...
This just dropped - latest episode of Learning Curve podcast. I talked with Rebecca Winthrop, co-author of The Disengaged Teen - and a high school student giving her view on the pros and cons of AI for student motivation.
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wil...
Ep 2 of Learning Curve just dropped! This one looks at a new model for teaching with AI proposed by Paul LeBlanc, former president of SNHU, plus some reaction from longtime teaching expert Maha Bali. Can AI bots be part of teaching w/o cutting off human connection?
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
What If College Teaching Was Redesigned With AI In Mind? | Learning Curve
A former university president is trying to reimagine college teaching with AI in mind, and this year he released an unusual video that provides a kind of artist’s sketch of what that could look like. ...
learningcurve.fm
September 3, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Ep 2 of Learning Curve just dropped! This one looks at a new model for teaching with AI proposed by Paul LeBlanc, former president of SNHU, plus some reaction from longtime teaching expert Maha Bali. Can AI bots be part of teaching w/o cutting off human connection?
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
Trump wants to add jobs in manufacturing, but colleges are already having difficult recruiting and keeping up w/ companies’ fast-changing needs.
I traveled to Lorain County Community College to check out their efforts to sell students on manufacturing programs.
hechingerreport.org/colleges-str...
I traveled to Lorain County Community College to check out their efforts to sell students on manufacturing programs.
hechingerreport.org/colleges-str...
hechingerreport.org
August 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Trump wants to add jobs in manufacturing, but colleges are already having difficult recruiting and keeping up w/ companies’ fast-changing needs.
I traveled to Lorain County Community College to check out their efforts to sell students on manufacturing programs.
hechingerreport.org/colleges-str...
I traveled to Lorain County Community College to check out their efforts to sell students on manufacturing programs.
hechingerreport.org/colleges-str...
I'm starting a podcast!
I'm focusing on AI and education, exploring what it means to teach and learn when chatbots and other generative AI can do work that was once thought to be uniquely human. The podcast is called Learning Curve and the first episode is up. learningcurve.fm
I'm focusing on AI and education, exploring what it means to teach and learn when chatbots and other generative AI can do work that was once thought to be uniquely human. The podcast is called Learning Curve and the first episode is up. learningcurve.fm
Learning Curve
What does it mean to teach and learn in the age of generative AI? Join host Jeff Young as he talks with educators, tech leaders and students, aiming to cut through the hype and inform a conversation a...
learningcurve.fm
August 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I'm starting a podcast!
I'm focusing on AI and education, exploring what it means to teach and learn when chatbots and other generative AI can do work that was once thought to be uniquely human. The podcast is called Learning Curve and the first episode is up. learningcurve.fm
I'm focusing on AI and education, exploring what it means to teach and learn when chatbots and other generative AI can do work that was once thought to be uniquely human. The podcast is called Learning Curve and the first episode is up. learningcurve.fm
My latest article for The Chronicle of Higher Ed - a look at AI and cybersecurity. Turns out profs are particularly prone to deepfake attacks because they often have samples of their image and voice on YouTube clips of them giving talks or online lecture videos.
www.chronicle.com/ci/insights/...
www.chronicle.com/ci/insights/...
Protecting Your Campus in the AI Era
From deepfakes that use professors’ voices to chatbots that turn against students with the very information they’ve provided, higher ed is increasingly vulnerable to nefarious, AI-powered cyberattacks...
www.chronicle.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
My latest article for The Chronicle of Higher Ed - a look at AI and cybersecurity. Turns out profs are particularly prone to deepfake attacks because they often have samples of their image and voice on YouTube clips of them giving talks or online lecture videos.
www.chronicle.com/ci/insights/...
www.chronicle.com/ci/insights/...
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The story of how generative AI arrived on college campuses is far more complicated and troubling than purchasing a single app, like ChatGPT. Updates in existing contacts don’t require a clearly defined decision making processes or go through shared governance
marcwatkins.substack.com/p/your-campu...
marcwatkins.substack.com/p/your-campu...
Your Campus Already Has AI—And That's the Problem
If you teach on a college campus, you likely have access to a slew of generative AI tools or features that have been quietly embedded in applications you use each day.
marcwatkins.substack.com
June 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The story of how generative AI arrived on college campuses is far more complicated and troubling than purchasing a single app, like ChatGPT. Updates in existing contacts don’t require a clearly defined decision making processes or go through shared governance
marcwatkins.substack.com/p/your-campu...
marcwatkins.substack.com/p/your-campu...
So is Gen AI already taking away white-collar jobs?
One expert I talked to from Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce says no, but this NYTimes column by @kevinroose.com argues that the job losses area already happening, and that new college grads are feeling it.
What do folks think?
One expert I talked to from Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce says no, but this NYTimes column by @kevinroose.com argues that the job losses area already happening, and that new college grads are feeling it.
What do folks think?
For Some Recent Graduates, the A.I. Job Apocalypse May Already Be Here
www.nytimes.com
June 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
So is Gen AI already taking away white-collar jobs?
One expert I talked to from Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce says no, but this NYTimes column by @kevinroose.com argues that the job losses area already happening, and that new college grads are feeling it.
What do folks think?
One expert I talked to from Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce says no, but this NYTimes column by @kevinroose.com argues that the job losses area already happening, and that new college grads are feeling it.
What do folks think?
UAE’s AI University Aims to Become Stanford of the Gulf
"The UAE is on a mission to become a global player in AI. The country appointed the world’s first AI minister back in 2017, and mandated this month that all primary schools add AI-based topics like algorithmic bias and prompt engineering..."
"The UAE is on a mission to become a global player in AI. The country appointed the world’s first AI minister back in 2017, and mandated this month that all primary schools add AI-based topics like algorithmic bias and prompt engineering..."
UAE’s AI University Aims to Become Stanford of the Gulf
Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI is focused on building an engineering pipeline, incubating homegrown startups, and hypercharging the region’s AI development
www.bloomberg.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
UAE’s AI University Aims to Become Stanford of the Gulf
"The UAE is on a mission to become a global player in AI. The country appointed the world’s first AI minister back in 2017, and mandated this month that all primary schools add AI-based topics like algorithmic bias and prompt engineering..."
"The UAE is on a mission to become a global player in AI. The country appointed the world’s first AI minister back in 2017, and mandated this month that all primary schools add AI-based topics like algorithmic bias and prompt engineering..."
Here's a must read from Leah Fabel:
Medicaid cuts could push more kids into unpaid family caregiving roles
"Young caregivers report more depression, anxiety, and stress than their peers. Their physical health tends to be worse, too." and their educational outcomes are greatly impacted.
Medicaid cuts could push more kids into unpaid family caregiving roles
"Young caregivers report more depression, anxiety, and stress than their peers. Their physical health tends to be worse, too." and their educational outcomes are greatly impacted.
Medicaid cuts could push more kids into unpaid family caregiving roles
As state officials anticipate Medicaid funding cuts that could strip resources for those with disabilities and chronic health conditions, an army of unpaid caregivers waits in the wings: children.
www.cbsnews.com
May 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Here's a must read from Leah Fabel:
Medicaid cuts could push more kids into unpaid family caregiving roles
"Young caregivers report more depression, anxiety, and stress than their peers. Their physical health tends to be worse, too." and their educational outcomes are greatly impacted.
Medicaid cuts could push more kids into unpaid family caregiving roles
"Young caregivers report more depression, anxiety, and stress than their peers. Their physical health tends to be worse, too." and their educational outcomes are greatly impacted.
It seems like everyone has seen the video of Turkish PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk getting arrested on the street because of an op-ed she co-wrote for the campus newspaper criticizing the university's response to Israel's war in Gaza. After six weeks of detention, she is now free after a judge's order
Tufts student detained by US immigration authorities must be released, judge rules
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to release a Tufts University student from Turkey who has been held for over six weeks in a Louisiana immigration detention facility after she co-wrote an opinion piece criticizing her school's response to Israel's war in Gaza.
www.reuters.com
May 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
It seems like everyone has seen the video of Turkish PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk getting arrested on the street because of an op-ed she co-wrote for the campus newspaper criticizing the university's response to Israel's war in Gaza. After six weeks of detention, she is now free after a judge's order
It's the day students decide which campus they're committing to, and colleges expect the number of international students to be down significantly because of recent Trump administration visa cancellations. And that will be a big financial blow to higher ed. hechingerreport.org/internationa...
International students are rethinking coming to the U.S. That’s a problem for colleges
Foreign-born students pay double or triple the tuition of domestic students — and are key to universities’ bottom line.
hechingerreport.org
May 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
It's the day students decide which campus they're committing to, and colleges expect the number of international students to be down significantly because of recent Trump administration visa cancellations. And that will be a big financial blow to higher ed. hechingerreport.org/internationa...
The EdSurge Podcast is back with our first episode of the new year.
The question is what to do about student cheating with AI, focusing on a new book by a longtime expert on academic integrity. I was surprised by some of the advice here:
www.edsurge.com/news/2025-01...
The question is what to do about student cheating with AI, focusing on a new book by a longtime expert on academic integrity. I was surprised by some of the advice here:
www.edsurge.com/news/2025-01...
AI Has Changed Student Cheating. But Strategies to Stop It Remain Consistent. - EdSurge News
In a new book, a long-time expert on academic integrity argues that understating why students cheat is key to making adjustments in teaching to prevent ...
www.edsurge.com
January 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The EdSurge Podcast is back with our first episode of the new year.
The question is what to do about student cheating with AI, focusing on a new book by a longtime expert on academic integrity. I was surprised by some of the advice here:
www.edsurge.com/news/2025-01...
The question is what to do about student cheating with AI, focusing on a new book by a longtime expert on academic integrity. I was surprised by some of the advice here:
www.edsurge.com/news/2025-01...
The latest EdSurge Podcast is kind of hard to explain, but in a good way. Our search for a new podcast theme song led to this unexpected conversation about the importance of creativity in teaching and in life. And it's about free music online. www.edsurge.com/news/2024-12...
What We Learned About Teaching and Creativity by Commissioning a New Podcast Theme Song - EdSurge News
For a special music episode of the EdSurge Podcast, we talked with the artist who composed our theme song about the importance of infusing creativity ...
www.edsurge.com
December 4, 2024 at 9:14 PM
The latest EdSurge Podcast is kind of hard to explain, but in a good way. Our search for a new podcast theme song led to this unexpected conversation about the importance of creativity in teaching and in life. And it's about free music online. www.edsurge.com/news/2024-12...
I kind of thought that one thing AI wouldn't be doing was actually interviewing human subjects in social science research. Well... some profs are trying it:
www.edsurge.com/news/2024-11...
www.edsurge.com/news/2024-11...
Researchers Try Using AI Chatbots to Conduct Interviews for Social Science Studies - EdSurge News
A new effort uses AI chatbots to conduct interviews with human subjects, which proponents say will revolutionize measuring public opinion in a variety ...
www.edsurge.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:02 PM
I kind of thought that one thing AI wouldn't be doing was actually interviewing human subjects in social science research. Well... some profs are trying it:
www.edsurge.com/news/2024-11...
www.edsurge.com/news/2024-11...
Latest episode of the EdSurge Podcast just dropped: Want to Find Highly-Engaged Students at 4-year Colleges? Look at Transfer Students.
It boosted my mood to hear this student talk about campus as an academic Disneyland and how he couldn't wait to learn.
www.edsurge.com/news/2024-11...
It boosted my mood to hear this student talk about campus as an academic Disneyland and how he couldn't wait to learn.
www.edsurge.com/news/2024-11...
Want to Find Highly-Engaged Students at 4-year Colleges? Look at Transfer Students. - EdSurge News
Students who transfer from community colleges to four-year universities are often more motivated and engaged in the classroom than students who arrive ...
www.edsurge.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:48 AM
Latest episode of the EdSurge Podcast just dropped: Want to Find Highly-Engaged Students at 4-year Colleges? Look at Transfer Students.
It boosted my mood to hear this student talk about campus as an academic Disneyland and how he couldn't wait to learn.
www.edsurge.com/news/2024-11...
It boosted my mood to hear this student talk about campus as an academic Disneyland and how he couldn't wait to learn.
www.edsurge.com/news/2024-11...
I recently started a Bluesky account, and I'm putting together a starter pack of people and publications that cover AI in education who have accounts on the platform. If you'd like to be on it, just let me know in the comments here or at jeff@edsurge.com
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November 20, 2024 at 1:19 AM
I recently started a Bluesky account, and I'm putting together a starter pack of people and publications that cover AI in education who have accounts on the platform. If you'd like to be on it, just let me know in the comments here or at jeff@edsurge.com
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