How can language teachers keep up with AI when the technology itself keeps changing? And how can teacher educators prepare future teachers for a landscape that may look very different just a few years from now?

Drawing on Phil’s forthcoming chapter on Sustained Integrated Professional Development, Mat and Phil explore whether learning about AI needs to become an ongoing part of teacher educators’ professional practice.

Do teacher educators need to be AI experts before they can prepare future teachers? What can educators learn by experimenting with AI themselves? In this episode, our hosts make the case for approaching AI not as something educators can learn once and master, but as an evolving area of professional learning—one that teachers and teacher educators can navigate together, from experiencing AI as a language learner and coll ...