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Topic outline

  • A collection of podcast, links, and articles in which we consider generative AI and its role in education. 

    • Topic 25

    • TLIC Podcasts Focusing on AI

      Episodes from our podcast focusing on AI. Some a brief, others are longer. Feel free to share those of interest to your students.

      • The 2025 MIT Article Page

        In June 2025, a pre-print article was released by a group of scholars working at MIT (and other universities). The article investigated the effects of LLM (ChatPGT) and search engines on adults' abilities to write essays. The article has been the focus of much chatter social media and other sites of interest to educators. In this episode, Catherine Gees, Gary Ackerman, and Jeff Galbraith describe and analyze the article.

      • John Dewey and AI Page

        The script of this podcast was generated from a blog post about John Dewey and reflections on his philosophies in an age of AI.



      • Strong and Weak AI Page

        Posing a fundamental question about human intelligence and artificial intelligence.

      • Retrieval-Augmented Generation: What Is It? Page

        In this episode, which was generated by AI, is based on a blog post about Retrieval-Augmented Generation which is one way we generate text (and other media) in AI systems.

      • The MIT Article on AI PDF Annotation