Mark Warschauer
@markwarschauer.com
Dad of 3, Distinguished Professor of Education @UCIrvine w/ affiliations in Informatics, Language Science & Psych Science, Director of Digital Learning Lab, researcher on AI in education http://markwarschauer.com/
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Mark Warschauer
@markwarschauer.com
· Nov 20
UCI DLL
The Digital Learning Lab (DLL) was founded by Mark Warschauer to use cutting-edge approaches for better understanding students’ learning processes, from pre-school to graduate school, as well...
www.digitallearninglab.org
I'm fairly new here so I'd like to briefly introduce my lab and research.
I'm a professor of ed at UC Irvine where I direct the Digital Learning Lab. We have three main projects: Converse to Learn, Elementary Computing for All, and Generative AI in Education.
www.digitallearninglab.org
I'm a professor of ed at UC Irvine where I direct the Digital Learning Lab. We have three main projects: Converse to Learn, Elementary Computing for All, and Generative AI in Education.
www.digitallearninglab.org
We have launched a new AI in K-12 Education certificate program at UC Irvine. Please pass on the word to any one who may be interested!
teacheracademy.uci.edu/ai-in-educat...
teacheracademy.uci.edu/ai-in-educat...
AI in Education | UCI Teacher Academy
teacheracademy.uci.edu
July 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
We have launched a new AI in K-12 Education certificate program at UC Irvine. Please pass on the word to any one who may be interested!
teacheracademy.uci.edu/ai-in-educat...
teacheracademy.uci.edu/ai-in-educat...
Check out our new Cambridge Element, Generative AI and Language Teaching--jam-packed with practical advice for educators around the world.
Free online until July 10, 2025!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Free online until July 10, 2025!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Language Teaching
Cambridge Core - Teacher training and professional development - Generative Artificial Intelligence and Language Teaching
www.cambridge.org
June 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Check out our new Cambridge Element, Generative AI and Language Teaching--jam-packed with practical advice for educators around the world.
Free online until July 10, 2025!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Free online until July 10, 2025!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
In the face of federal cuts, California could backstop support for educational research--but tariffs are causing a huge budget crisis in California. Please sign a petition to support the main group giving out educational research grants for higher education
www.change.org/p/protect-in...
www.change.org/p/protect-in...
Sign the Petition
Protect Innovation in Higher Ed: Save the California Education Learning Lab
www.change.org
May 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
In the face of federal cuts, California could backstop support for educational research--but tariffs are causing a huge budget crisis in California. Please sign a petition to support the main group giving out educational research grants for higher education
www.change.org/p/protect-in...
www.change.org/p/protect-in...
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Our open access paper describing the first year of our DBIR work incorporating generative AI into an upper division writing course is out! doi.org/10.1007/s107... For more resources from our NSF-funded project, see our website GenAIed.org! @markwarschauer.com
May 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Our open access paper describing the first year of our DBIR work incorporating generative AI into an upper division writing course is out! doi.org/10.1007/s107... For more resources from our NSF-funded project, see our website GenAIed.org! @markwarschauer.com
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🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees:
Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and…
1. Download your NSF award letters.
2. Print PDF your annual reports.
3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports.
NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov
Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and…
1. Download your NSF award letters.
2. Print PDF your annual reports.
3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports.
NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov
April 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees:
Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and…
1. Download your NSF award letters.
2. Print PDF your annual reports.
3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports.
NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov
Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and…
1. Download your NSF award letters.
2. Print PDF your annual reports.
3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports.
NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov
5.8 earthquake in San Diego--we felt it here in Irvine.
Is everybody OK?
Is everybody OK?
April 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
5.8 earthquake in San Diego--we felt it here in Irvine.
Is everybody OK?
Is everybody OK?
Nice article by @jillbarshay.bsky.social about research by @renzheyu.bsky.social of Teachers College!
@hechingerreport.org continues its outstanding educational journalism!
@hechingerreport.org continues its outstanding educational journalism!
International students may be among the biggest early beneficiaries of ChatGPT
International students may be among the biggest early beneficiaries of ChatGPT - The Hechinger Report
The public release of ChatGPT in November 2022 changed the world. A chatbot could instantly write paragraphs and papers, a task once thought to be uniquely human. Though it may take many years to understand...
hechingerreport.org
April 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Nice article by @jillbarshay.bsky.social about research by @renzheyu.bsky.social of Teachers College!
@hechingerreport.org continues its outstanding educational journalism!
@hechingerreport.org continues its outstanding educational journalism!
New digital monograph: Generative AI in Computer Science Education. Available free online from April 7-21, 2025
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Generative AI in Computer Science Education
Cambridge Core - Education policy, strategy and reform - Generative AI in Computer Science Education
www.cambridge.org
April 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
New digital monograph: Generative AI in Computer Science Education. Available free online from April 7-21, 2025
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Let’s go Dodgers and Roki Sasaki!
March 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Let’s go Dodgers and Roki Sasaki!
Our new paper:
Promoting parent-child shared reading with a bilingual conversational agent
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Promoting parent-child shared reading with a bilingual conversational agent
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Promoting parent-child shared reading with a bilingual conversational agent
Recognizing the challenges bilingual children face in school readiness and the potential of bilingual dialogic shared reading in improving language an…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Our new paper:
Promoting parent-child shared reading with a bilingual conversational agent
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Promoting parent-child shared reading with a bilingual conversational agent
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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In lighter news, I *highly* recommend this training institute if you're interested in learning analytics and #STEMed!
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Apply by April 4 for the 2025 cohort of the #NSF funded NSF-funded Learning Analytics in STEM Education Research (LASER) Institute.
The LASER Institute will kick off with a week-long summer training workshop July 14-18.
Details/apply: www.fi.ncsu.edu/projects/las...
The LASER Institute will kick off with a week-long summer training workshop July 14-18.
Details/apply: www.fi.ncsu.edu/projects/las...
March 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
In lighter news, I *highly* recommend this training institute if you're interested in learning analytics and #STEMed!
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Sunday evening fun :-)
February 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Sunday evening fun :-)
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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
February 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
A good overview
Latest publication! You can access a (non-downloadable) PDF at rdcu.be/eaAcn
Xiao, J., Bozkurt, A., Nichols, M. et al. Venturing into the Unknown: Critical Insights into Grey Areas and Pioneering Future Directions in Educational Generative AI Research. TechTrends (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s115...
Xiao, J., Bozkurt, A., Nichols, M. et al. Venturing into the Unknown: Critical Insights into Grey Areas and Pioneering Future Directions in Educational Generative AI Research. TechTrends (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s115...
Venturing into the Unknown: Critical Insights into Grey Areas and Pioneering Future Directions in Educational Generative AI Research
rdcu.be
February 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A good overview
Beautiful short film resonant with the points made in the book my wife and I wrote, Japan: The Paradox of Harmony
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/opinion/japan-education-childhood.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xE4.CHuB.P_lqFwMcFMLJ&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/opinion/japan-education-childhood.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xE4.CHuB.P_lqFwMcFMLJ&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
February 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Beautiful short film resonant with the points made in the book my wife and I wrote, Japan: The Paradox of Harmony
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/opinion/japan-education-childhood.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xE4.CHuB.P_lqFwMcFMLJ&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/opinion/japan-education-childhood.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xE4.CHuB.P_lqFwMcFMLJ&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Another update! Here are What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Reports & IES Conditions of Education reports. Thanks to those who uploaded these to OSF! (not me, I'm just spreading the wealth)
osf.io/sxf42/
osf.io/sxf42/
What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Reports
Storage of What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Reports from 2015 through February 2025 (downloaded 2/10/2025)
Hosted on the Open Science Framework
osf.io
February 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Another update! Here are What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Reports & IES Conditions of Education reports. Thanks to those who uploaded these to OSF! (not me, I'm just spreading the wealth)
osf.io/sxf42/
osf.io/sxf42/
I've been thinking a lot about AI and the future of writing and I was looking back on one of my papers from 2007.
"The Paradoxical Future of Digital Learning"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"The Paradoxical Future of Digital Learning"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The paradoxical future of digital learning - Learning Inquiry
What constitutes learning in the 21st century will be contested terrain as our society strives toward post-industrial forms of knowledge acquisition and production without having yet overcome the educ...
link.springer.com
February 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I've been thinking a lot about AI and the future of writing and I was looking back on one of my papers from 2007.
"The Paradoxical Future of Digital Learning"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"The Paradoxical Future of Digital Learning"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Interesting read on the future of writing www.cmu.edu/dietrich/eng...
www.cmu.edu
February 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Interesting read on the future of writing www.cmu.edu/dietrich/eng...
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I have just been sent a shareable link so this article can be accessed for free:
www.wsj.com/health/welln...
www.wsj.com/health/welln...
February 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I have just been sent a shareable link so this article can be accessed for free:
www.wsj.com/health/welln...
www.wsj.com/health/welln...
1/4 Sunday morning rant.
The 100-point grading scale so widely used in the US is irrational and ridiculously unfair. Why in the world should a student who gets one A (100) and one F (0) get an overall grade of F (50)?
The 100-point grading scale so widely used in the US is irrational and ridiculously unfair. Why in the world should a student who gets one A (100) and one F (0) get an overall grade of F (50)?
January 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
1/4 Sunday morning rant.
The 100-point grading scale so widely used in the US is irrational and ridiculously unfair. Why in the world should a student who gets one A (100) and one F (0) get an overall grade of F (50)?
The 100-point grading scale so widely used in the US is irrational and ridiculously unfair. Why in the world should a student who gets one A (100) and one F (0) get an overall grade of F (50)?
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Interesting and perhaps controversial methods in this paper:
"The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans
www.nature.com
January 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Interesting and perhaps controversial methods in this paper:
"The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Some of my brilliant colleagues developed a new tool for contextualizing effect sizes for social & behavioral outcomes!
ebcontextualizer.shinyapps.io/EmpBench/ described in this article www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
ebcontextualizer.shinyapps.io/EmpBench/ described in this article www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Effect size contextualizer
ebcontextualizer.shinyapps.io
January 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Some of my brilliant colleagues developed a new tool for contextualizing effect sizes for social & behavioral outcomes!
ebcontextualizer.shinyapps.io/EmpBench/ described in this article www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
ebcontextualizer.shinyapps.io/EmpBench/ described in this article www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thread on educators using NotebookLM in their classes, either by simply allowing/encouraging its use or by uploading course materials there for students
https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooklm/s/GibMArR1E6
https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooklm/s/GibMArR1E6
January 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Thread on educators using NotebookLM in their classes, either by simply allowing/encouraging its use or by uploading course materials there for students
https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooklm/s/GibMArR1E6
https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooklm/s/GibMArR1E6
Great read.
The Truth About 2 Hour Learning & Unbound Academy, the School “Replacing Teachers with AI”
They haven’t replaced teachers with AI. They've replaced poor kids with rich kids.
https://danmeyer.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-2-hour-learning-and?utm_campaign=post&showWelcomeOnShare=true
The Truth About 2 Hour Learning & Unbound Academy, the School “Replacing Teachers with AI”
They haven’t replaced teachers with AI. They've replaced poor kids with rich kids.
https://danmeyer.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-2-hour-learning-and?utm_campaign=post&showWelcomeOnShare=true
January 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Great read.
The Truth About 2 Hour Learning & Unbound Academy, the School “Replacing Teachers with AI”
They haven’t replaced teachers with AI. They've replaced poor kids with rich kids.
https://danmeyer.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-2-hour-learning-and?utm_campaign=post&showWelcomeOnShare=true
The Truth About 2 Hour Learning & Unbound Academy, the School “Replacing Teachers with AI”
They haven’t replaced teachers with AI. They've replaced poor kids with rich kids.
https://danmeyer.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-2-hour-learning-and?utm_campaign=post&showWelcomeOnShare=true