🎥 Just shared on YouTube 👉 AI in the classroom has no research-based best practices yet — and MIT's Justin Reich explains why, after interviewing 120 teachers and students for The Homework Machine.
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MIT associate professor Justin Reich (director of the Teaching Systems Lab) joins Vicki Davis to share what he learned talking to real teachers and students about AI in K-12 — and the practical, humble approach teachers can use right now.
In this episode:
🎧 Why teacher and student voices beat thought-leader hot takes
🔬 Why "AI best practices" don't exist yet — and the 25-year research timeline behind it
🧪 How to run a small "local science" AI experiment in your own classroom
🧠 Why your domain knowledge is what makes AI useful (the chess example is great)
✍️ Four ways teachers handle AI cheating — beg-and-plead, nag, detectors, and "Bogtrotter"
✂️ The power of subtraction: what schools should stop doing
⏱️ Chapters:
00:00 Sponsor & Welcome
00:25 Justin Reich and The Homework Machine
01:15 Why Trust Teachers and Students Over Experts
02:15 AI Hits Different Schools Differently
03:52 Why Schools Need Shared Expectations
05:56 Why There Are No AI Best Practices Yet
08:28 The Worst-Speech Contest and the AI Question
09:32 Your Expertise Is What Makes AI Useful
11:58 What Domain Knowledge Really Means
16:16 The Homework Machine: Cheating and Four Teacher Responses
20:35 The Power of Less: What to Subtract
22:18 Closing & EF STEM Tours
About Justin Reich: Associate professor of digital media at MIT and director of the Teaching Systems Lab. Host of the TeachLab Podcast and its limited series The Homework Machine. Author of Iterate and Failure to Disrupt.
This show is sponsored by EF Explore America and their STEM Tours — show your students how STEM shows up in the real world: efexploreamerica.com/STEM?ut…
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