Mind Shift: Learning 2049

In this season finale, co-hosts Robert Wells and Adam White look back at their journey over the last several months. Reflecting on the fast-moving landscape of generative AI in academia. They discuss how their own perspectives have shifted, the realities of classroom AI integration, and the broader, more urgent sociopolitical and existential risks that have surfaced along the way. #AIinEducation #...

What happens when a university commits to being "AI-first"? In this conversation, Associate Professor Sarah Midford (interim Pro Vice Chancellor of Learning and Teaching at La Trobe University) joins us to discuss how generative AI is shifting higher education from product-oriented grading to process-based assessment, the realities of teaching AI literacy, and what universities might loo...

What happens when advanced AI is used to train humans in high-stakes environments? In this conversation, Dr. Jeanine DeFalco (Founder and CEO of Mixta AI) joins us to discuss the ethics, cognitive psychology, and design of adaptive instructional systems. This conversation goes beyond typical AI hype to interrogate the hard questions: What happens when educational systems prioritize simple completi...

What happens to higher education when the "proxy" for thinking—the academic essay—is broken by Generative AI? In this episode of Mind Shift, Adam White and Robert Wells are joined by Cassie Thu Ngan Ngo to discuss the urgent need to move beyond banning AI and toward "AI Literacy."Cassie discusses some of the findings of her research into AI in higher education, "Integratin...

What happens when AI meets the deeply human work of qualitative research? In this conversation, Dr. David Marshall (Auburn University) and Dr. David Naff (Virginia Commonwealth University) discuss their study on the ethics of artificial intelligence in educational research, "The Ethics of Using Artificial Intelligence in Qualitative Research" (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38881315/).T...

In this conversation, with Bassem Nasir, we explore the challenges that face educators in light of the money and power of big tech. We touch on the underlying purposes for education and whether AI might move us towards or away from these goals. Bassem Nasir is an education specialist at UNICEF. He has extensive leadership experience in education, youth development, entrepreneurship, sustainability...

In the debut episode of this six-part series, Robert Wells and Adam White dive into AI, the "transformative technology" currently disrupting academia. From the staggering rise in student usage to the "flatfooted" response of institutional leadership, Robert and Adam explore whether AI is a tool for scaffolding better learning or a shortcut to cognitive decline. They move beyond the simple "cheatin...