What We've Learned About AI
With hosts Betsy & Jeremy
So what will it take for people to be "fluent" in the future? 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. It's how we purposefully building human agency as we experiment with this new tool. Betsy and Jeremy also talk about the questions they *didn't* explore this season -- and how to examine them in the autumn when we pick up with Season 2. Got thoughts? Drop a note on LinkedIn.
Betsy Corcoran & Jeremey Roschelle
Betsy Corcoran is a writer, thought-leader and serial entrepreneur who brings education’s best ideas to life. She advises C-level leaders at companies and foundations seeking to make a difference in how we learn. In May 2025, she joined the nonprofit AI infrastructure organization, Playlab.ai, as director of strategic initiatives. She also chairs the board of Design Tech High School, a public charter school in Redwood City, Calif.
Previously Betsy cofounded and served for almost a decade as CEO of EdSurge, an award-winning news and information hub for educators, entrepreneurs, philanthropists and policy makers with a commitment to using technology to support learning. In 2019, she negotiated its successful acquisition by ISTE.
A journalist at heart, Betsy served as Silicon Valley Bureau Chief for Forbes Media and received national recognition for her reporting and writing at organizations that include The Washington Post and Scientific American magazine. She is an internationally recognized speaker, conference moderator and LinkedIn “Influencer.”
On the nonprofit side, she cofounded Project Ollie, which helps students and teachers in Ukraine and serves on the board of New Harmony Line, founded by noted MIT Media Lab professor, Tod Machover.
Betsy has been a Fellow with the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellows Program and the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In her spare time, Betsy swims in open water and with a Masters team in California.
Dr. Jeremy Roschelle serves as Executive Director of Learning Sciences Research at Digital Promise, where he conducts research on the future of learning with technology. Dr. Roschelle is a Fellow of the International Society of the Learning Sciences, and is internationally known for his work on computer-supported collaborative learning, learning mathematics with technology, and on scaling up research-based technologies. Over his 30+ year career, he has authored about 200 publications, which have earned him more than 25,000 citations. He also holds 10 patents.
Dr. Roschelle presently leads major AI in education R&D projects, such as U-GAIN Reading.
He also leads research hubs that organize the work of top scholars throughout the field. For example, SEERNet serves IES’s portfolio of projects that use digital learning platforms as research infrastructure.
Additionally Dr. Roschelle serves as a subject matter expert on Artificial Intelligence in both the public and private sector and on the Advisory Committee for Education at the National Science Foundation. He actively communicates to broad audiences about how findings and insights from research can shape the future of technology use in education.
In his spare time, he enjoys photography, jazz, backpacking and hiking.
Thank you to all our listeners!
This concludes season 1 of Future Fluent. We hope you enjoyed tuning in each week, and stay posted for more exciting news soon!
