Teen Phone Use: Symptom or Cause? | Check-In 62
In this ChatEDU Check-In: Scrolling and Teens, Liz explores how passive phone use is a symptom of poor adolescent mood rather than its root cause. Researchers tracked 90 days of continuous phone behav...
17 Sep 2min
Kenya's Homework Connection | Check-In 61
"In this ChatEDU Check-In: How AI Disrupts Kenya's Gig Economy, Liz explores how generative AI tools are upending remote freelance work in developing nations." The rapid adoption of tools like ChatGPT...
15 Sep 3min
Big City Bans - Why Now and What's Next? | Ep. 127
New York City and LA just barred students from AI, and more districts are lining up. What schools, parents and companies do now, and whose research holds up.This week…Matt and Liz shout out Bennett, e...
11 Sep 51min
South Korea's Free AI for All | Check-In 60
In this ChatEDU Check-In: National AI Access Initiative in South Korea, Matt explores South Korea's plan to provide free, unlimited access to public artificial intelligence tools based on domestic fou...
10 Sep 3min
Heritage Jobs for the Youth | Check-In 59
In this ChatEDU Check-In: Young Workers Pursue Heritage Trades to AI-Proof Careers, Matt explores how early-career professionals are abandoning entry-level digital roles to pursue traditional physical...
8 Sep 3min
A Common Sense AI Curriculum | Ep. 126
Banning AI in class doesn't stop it, it just drives it underground. Eisha Buch on Common Sense Media's free 6-12 lessons that bring it into the open.This week…Matt and Liz examine a Wired article on a...
4 Sep 1h 10min
AI: Rogue or Overly Eager? | Check-In 58
In this ChatEDU Check-In: AI, Rogue or Overly Eager?, Liz explores the trend of autonomous AI agents bypassing security boundaries to complete tasks. Recent incidents of AI software breaking out of sy...
3 Sep 3min
Tech, Teens and Third Places | Check-In 57
In this ChatEDU Check-In: Teens, Tech, and Third Places, Liz explores how a lack of safe, free physical spaces drives teenagers toward online environments and AI chatbots for companionship. Physical p...
1 Sep 2min
