How Educators Can Get More Value from Learning Science R&D
With Melina Uncapher
Why are the “myths” about how we learn sometimes more powerful than what research has delivered? In this episode of Future Fluent, Jeremy and Betsy interview Dr. Melina Uncapher, a neuroscience researcher and learning science practitioner who has spent her professional life trying to help educators and researchers work together. They plunge into one of the great myths of learning–that we have different “styles” of learning–and then ask the question: Can AI make it possible to weave learning science into the classroom? Betsy puts a challenge to Melina.
How Teachers Navigate an “Arrival Technology"
With guest Justin Reich
AI arrived in classrooms at the same time it arrived in businesses and homes. And while it may speed up tasks at work, teachers, students and parents are still in the early and often painful stages of figuring out how or even if it will make learning “more efficient.” In this episode of Future Fluent, Jeremy and Betsy talk with Dr. Justin Reich, an MIT professor and researcher, and cohost of The Homework Machine podcast. Reich’s been studying Chat GPT's role in school since November 2020. Reich and his team listen closely to teachers through their research. He worries that AI is already slowing down learning. “I think we’re going to find that there are millions and millions fewer minutes of homework being done at all secondary grade levels this year,” he warns.
The AI Trust Chasm: What Can We Do To Bridge The Gap?
With guest Erin Mote
Do you trust AI? And if you don’t, what should you do? That’s the heart of this wide-ranging conversation between leading education policy advocate, Erin Mote, and Future Fluent’s Jeremy Roschelle and Betsy Corcoran. Interacting with AI, Erin says, is "like conversing with a brilliant person you cannot trust." But Erin doesn’t stop there. Advocate, educator, Mom: Erin brings a rich perspective to the question of how are we going to learn to live with AI. Join us.
Charting a research-based future for AI in education in the Netherlands
With guest Inge Molenaar
Dr. Inge Molenaar sits at the epicenter of learning, research and AI. And the Netherlands has been a leader in Europe and throughout the world in the effective use of emerging technologies, Dr. Molenaar has an exceptional vantage for observing–and influencing–the emergent use of AI in learning.
Sidestepping AI’s ‘Nasty, Unintended Consequences’
With guest Pat Yongpradit
Pat Yongpradit has been the face of Code.org for a dozen years and is a prominent, worldwide AI literacy leader. Just this month, he’s also taken on a big new leadership role at Microsoft. We we know why he's in demand: He's bracingly clear eyed about the challenges educators face in 2026 and beyond.
What Happens When the World is Built on Stacks of Wizards
With guest Ethan Mollick
Season two of Future Fluent kicks off with a provocative interview with Ethan Mollick, a professor, writer and deep observer of the fast evolving relationship between artificial intelligence, learning and the future of work.
What We've Learned About AI
With hosts Betsy & Jeremy
In this wrap-up of season one, Betsy and Jeremy compare notes on what we've heard from the guests. One strong throughline: it's not the technology that matters -- it's what people do with the technology.
What It's Like When Every Student Does Computer Science
With guest Sallie Holloway
In this episode of Future Fluent, Jeremy Roschelle and Betsy Corcoran probe into what's next in Gwinnett--namely how they are building human-centered AI practices.
Reading the Context: Becoming Fluent in AI through Play
With guest John Seely Brown
Learning, much like being part of a jazz group or surviving in the wilderness, involves constantly questioning and reexamining everything around us.
How to Give Feedback on 500 Million Sentences
With guest Peter Gault
We know how to teach people to improve their writing--but it takes a lot of work
The Hardest Part of Using AI for Good
With guest Jason Green
How can educators feel "safe" to try new practices? And how powerful is a sign that says: "Innovation in Action"?
Can AI measure what students really know?
With guest Kristen DiCerbo
Many companies are building tutors. To build a good tutor requires figuring out students already know and what they are learning. Is AI up to this task?
How Playing with AI Can Build Human Agency
With guest Yusuf Ahmad
How can learning to use AI be more like, well, what happens at a skate park?
Zen and the Art of Mastering AI Trends
With guest Claire Zau
Whoooooosh. Okay, so that isn't really the sound of the news about AI….
Why Learning's Fourth 'R' Is the Most Powerful
With guest Isabelle Hau
In this episode of Future Fluent, Betsy Corcoran and Jeremy Roschelle speak with author Isabelle Hau who shares her findings on why relationship-focused learning should be at the core of curriculum and education.
Creating--and Killing--Open Educational Resources
With guest David Wiley
What does it mean for a technology to be “generous”?
What AI Can--and Can't--Do in Math
With guest Dan Meyer
What role do we want AI to have in teaching and learning math?
Where Education Innovation Happens
With guest Kristina Ishmael
What exactly does “innovation” in education mean? Does it begin in Silicon Valley, or somewhere else?
Using AI in the Classroom Without Losing Your Humanity
With guest Mike Yates
How do you use cutting edge technologies without losing your grip on humanity?
How AI Bots Are Changing the Way We Write
With guest Mike Sharples
Great writers plunge themselves and their lived experience into their writing.