You can learn with AI
From Change, Technically by Dr. Ashley Juavinett and Dr. Cat Hicks
February 16, 2026 · 37 min · Season 2 · Episode 4
About this episode
Ashley and Cat discuss the potential for learning in the AI era through collaborative teaching and metacognitive skills.
Can people learn in the AI era? Ashley and Cat think so. We talk about Ashley's experiences teaching programming and co-designing WITH students (not against them) to create shared classroom norms around AI, and about the metacognitive skills that Cat is sharing with the software teams and developers she works with to bring a "dynamic textbook" approach to using AI to build understanding, not degrade it. Cat's Learning Opportunities Claude Skill, with a scientific reference list to the e...
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Hosts: Dr. Ashley Juavinett, Dr. Cat Hicks
Topics covered
- AI in education
- programming
- metacognitive skills
- classroom norms
- dynamic textbook approach
Keywords
- AI
- education
- programming
- metacognition
- classroom norms
- dynamic textbook
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