The Close All Tabs team is taking the week off, but we wanted to share something else we think you’ll be into: a new mini series from MIT’s TeachLab Podcast. It’s called The Homework Machine, and it dives deep into how teachers and students are navigating the arrival of generative AI in schools.

Episode one is titled “Buckle Up, Here It Comes.”

In late November of 2022, ChatGPT was released to the public as a free research preview. Pretty quickly, students figured out ChatGPT was really good at doing their homework for them. Schools scrambled to figure out what to do: Ban it? Embrace it? Teachers and students found themselves adapting to a new reality.

Hosts Jesse Dukes and Justin Reich share stories of teachers and students reacting to the arrival of an exciting, alarming, and strange new technology.

Further reading/listening:

TeachLab Presents: The Homework Machine – TeachLab from MIT

Teachers Strike Back Against AI Cheating – Close All Tabs

Read the transcript here

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From MIT’s TeachLab: The Homework Machine