

Using AI in the Classroom Without Losing Your Humanity
Feb 13, 2025
35:39
How do you use cutting edge technologies without losing your grip on humanity? Mike Yates, an educator for over a decade, is managing that balance. He's fearless about using technology in innovative ways, like hosting AI-inflected poetry slams in his classroom, but remains focused on building the human relationships that are core to great teaching. In this episode of Future Fluent, Jeremy Roschelle and Betsy Corcoran explore Mike's provocative idea: How something he calls "digital dexterity" could shape the future of AI-infused teaching.
Oh, the places you can explore! Check thse out:
- Schoolish (Spotify) (or Schoolish on Apple podcasts.)
- Schoolish newsletter
- Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin (Here’s the description of her MacArthur Foundation award)
- AI & the Future of Us: An Oprah WInfrey Special (with Bill Gates and Sam Altman)
- HipHopEd
- Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education by Sam Seidel
- Playlab
- “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” by Claude Shannon
- “Her” (2013)
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