The AI Grief Cycle, with Christopher Ostro

Today on episode number 601 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, the AI Grief Cycle with Christopher Ostro. Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. Welcome to this episode of Teaching in Higher Ed. I'm Bonnie Stahoviak and this is the space where we explore the art and science of being more effective. At facilitating learning, we also share ways to improve our productivity approaches so we can have more peace in our lives and be even more present for our students.

What if the biggest challenge with artificial intelligence and higher education right now isn't the technology? But the grief. In the past few years, the way we write, assess, and even define academic work have shifted, and many of us are still catching our breath after the changes brought on by the pandemic. Traditional assignments don't function the same way, at least not the same way we thought they did. Students are navigating new pressures, and we're being asked to become experts in a landscape that keeps moving around us.

So what are we mourning? What have we actually lost? Today I talk with Christopher Ostro from the University of Colorado about the AI grief cycle, how denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance are showing up in our teaching, in our policies, and even in our sense of identity, and we'll explore what it looks like to move through that grief together instead of staying stuck. Christopher Ostro, welcome back to Teaching in Higher Ed. Yeah, happy to be here.

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