The Teaching for Learning Center is excited to launch Season Two of the AI Critical Literacy podcast, inspired by The Opposite of Cheating.
Join Missouri School of Journalism professor Jared Schroeder and university thought-leaders as they explore how generative AI is reshaping teaching and learning.
From ethical considerations to practical classroom strategies, each episode offers fresh insights to help educators and students critically engage with AI.
Return to Season 1 Here
Season Two
Episode 1: It’s Only Cheating When You Get Caught:
Guest: Ben Trachtenberg, Office of Academic Integrity Director
Harkening back to his limited and largely unsuccessful days playing Texas football, host Jared Schroeder begins Season 2 by thinking about why students cheat and the future of academic integrity in the AI era. The episode features Missouri School of Law professor Ben Trachtenberg, who directs the university’s office of academic integrity. They discuss the first chapter of The Opposite of Cheating and explore factors that drive students to cheat, suggesting faculty clarify assignments and show students they care about their learning.
Episode 2: The Leaky Pipe:
Guest: Kirk Wilkins, Mizzou Online Instructional Designer
In this episode, Kirk Wilkins, an instructional designer from Mizzou Online, joins the podcast to talk about how to “fix leaks” through clear communication with students and rethinking assessments that have been undermined by AI. Recommended strategies include authentic, multimodal assignments (UDL) and scaffolding to lower stakes and mitigate the temptation to cheat.
Episode 3: Fool Me Once:
Guest: Christy Goldsmith, MU Campus Writing Program Associate Director
Christy Goldsmith stops by to help us identify ways to adjust and rethink assessments to avoid students using AI to skirt the learning process. The episode focuses on Chapter 4 of this season’s book, The Opposite of Cheating. Solutions emphasize designing authentic, localized assignments, scenario-based assessments to increase engagement, making rubrics more flexible, and providing targeted feedback to prioritize intrinsic motivation
Episode 4: Alien Environments:
Guest: Kui Xie, Dean of Missouri College of Education & Human Development
Guest: Cindy Dudenhoffer, Associate Director of School of Information Science & Learning Technologies
Kui Xie and Cindy Dudenhoffer join the podcast to talk about AI and the classroom environment. The episode is guided by Chapter 5 of this season’s book, The Opposite of Cheating, and it challenges us to consider longstanding concerns about teaching and learning environments from new perspectives in the AI era.
Episode 5: Cheat Bait/Lost Horizons:
Guest: Jonathan Cisco, Director of Educational Assessment, University of Missouri
Jonathan Cisco, Director of Educational Assessment at the University of Missouri, challenges us to think beyond assessments and consider questions about learning objectives and the broader goals of our courses—particularly how these have been influenced by AI. In other words, we must ensure we don’t lose sight of our course-objective horizons.
This episode is organized around Chapter 6 of The Opposite of Cheating, which emphasizes that certain assignments have essentially become “cheat bait” for students. The chapter offers several strategies for rethinking how we approach assessments in the AI era.
Episode 6: Doing it Wrong:
Guest: Victoria Mondelli, Founding Director, MU Teaching for Learning Center
Tori Mondelli, Director of the University of Missouri Teaching for Learning Center, returns to the podcast to help us wrap up our season-long focus on assessment and the learning environment in the AI era. The episode covers a broad range of concerns, including how to avoid being overwhelmed by the challenges AI creates for assessment, the reasons students misuse AI, and what instructors can do to encourage academic integrity in their classrooms.