Betsy Corcoran 4/21/26 Betsy Corcoran 4/21/26

The Secret to Designing Powerful Learning Experiences

What’s been the most powerful learning experience that you've had? Dr. Margaret Honey has helped build remarkable learning experiences–starting with the television show, The Voyage of the Mimi, through her work at the New York Hall of Sciences and most recently with the Scratch Foundation. Through it all, she’s held fast to several principles, starting with: Never fake it. And center activity around children’s curiosity not around rubrics or assessments. In this episode, Margaret shares with Jeremy and Betsy the triumphs, challenges and hard-won lessons learned of building memorable experiential learning environments–along with what changes in an AI-saturated world. (And, we also learn why actor Ben Affleck knows so much about humpback whales!)

Betsy Corcoran 4/12/26 Betsy Corcoran 4/12/26

When Good Intentions Aren’t Good Enough

With Elvira Salazar

History is chock full of new technologies developed with good intentions. But if we’ve learned anything over the past few decades, it’s that doing research and designing products has layers of complexity. It isn’t enough to just build tech for others – we have to build it in close partnership and community with those who will use it. In this episode of Future Fluent, Betsy and Jeremy talk with Dr. Elvira Salazar, a life-long educator, passionate devotee of STEM education and NASA, and now the Director of Online Learning & Technology for Latinos for Education. They’ll talk about what the AI community gets right – and gets wrong – in the rush to build the next great thing.

Betsy Corcoran 3/16/26 Betsy Corcoran 3/16/26

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.

Betsy Corcoran 2/24/26 Betsy Corcoran 2/24/26

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.

Betsy Corcoran 2/9/26 Betsy Corcoran 2/9/26

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.

Betsy Corcoran 1/27/26 Betsy Corcoran 1/27/26

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.

Betsy Corcoran 1/12/26 Betsy Corcoran 1/12/26

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.

Betsy Corcoran 12/10/25 Betsy Corcoran 12/10/25

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.

Betsy Corcoran 6/6/25 Betsy Corcoran 6/6/25

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.

Betsy Corcoran 5/29/25 Betsy Corcoran 5/29/25

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.

Betsy Corcoran 5/22/25 Betsy Corcoran 5/22/25

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.

Betsy Corcoran 4/24/25 Betsy Corcoran 4/24/25

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

Betsy Corcoran 4/17/25 Betsy Corcoran 4/17/25

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"?

Betsy Corcoran 4/10/25 Betsy Corcoran 4/10/25

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?

Betsy Corcoran 4/3/25 Betsy Corcoran 4/3/25

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?

Betsy Corcoran 3/27/25 Betsy Corcoran 3/27/25

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….

Peter Anders 3/13/25 Peter Anders 3/13/25

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.