https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays Hi, I'm Geoff Challen. I love to teach, and I love to build. I teach students to build—with code and AI. And I build things that help them learn. These are my essays, on teaching, computing and AI, read aloud. Each reading is a synthetic voice, a clone of my own, and each essay is also on geoffreychallen.com to read. en-us © 2026 Geoffrey Challen Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://www.geoffreychallen.com/podcast-cover.jpghttps://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays Geoffrey Challen Hi, I'm Geoff Challen. I love to teach, and I love to build. I teach students to build—with code and AI. And I build things that help them learn. These are my essays, on teaching, computing and AI, read aloud. Each reading is a synthetic voice, a clone of my own, and each essay is also on geoffreychallen.com to read. Geoffrey Challenchallen@illinois.edu false episodic yes 63ec4e4c-d8c5-59ef-98e3-d05f3e987b72 podcast Higher education is too fixated on research to respond to the educational challenge posed by AI. Read by a synthetic voice, a clone of Geoffrey Challen's own. The essay: https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-11-05-time-to-try-teaching https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-11-05-time-to-try-teaching https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-11-05-time-to-try-teaching Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT 7:15 Geoffrey Challen false full Eight things a university would be doing if it were serious about using AI to support teaching and learning. Read by a synthetic voice, a clone of Geoffrey Challen's own. The essay: https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-10-22-the-university-of-the-future https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-10-22-the-university-of-the-future https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-10-22-the-university-of-the-future Thu, 22 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT 19:01 Geoffrey Challen false full If you want to glimpse the unevenly distributed future, talk to people who are living on that frontier. Expect that to be uncomfortable. Read by a synthetic voice, a clone of Geoffrey Challen's own. The essay: https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-10-17-how-to-time-travel https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-10-17-how-to-time-travel https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-10-17-how-to-time-travel Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT 4:37 Geoffrey Challen false full SIGCSE reviewing is straining under record submissions. The conference already has the pieces of something better: fewer, better reviewers, each doing more, and working together. Read by a synthetic voice, a clone of Geoffrey Challen's own. The essay: https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-09-22-less-peer-more-review https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-09-22-less-peer-more-review https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-09-22-less-peer-more-review Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT 11:07 Geoffrey Challen false full Welcoming students to Illinois, at a moment when nobody knows what computing will look like when they graduate. Read by a synthetic voice, a clone of Geoffrey Challen's own. The essay: https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-08-23-welcoming-thoughts https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-08-23-welcoming-thoughts https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-08-23-welcoming-thoughts Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT 2:28 Geoffrey Challen false full Educational tech without most of the educational tech companies: An emerging divide in the technology industry and what it means for computing educators. Read by a synthetic voice, a clone of Geoffrey Challen's own. The essay: https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-08-09-tech-v-tech https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-08-09-tech-v-tech https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-08-09-tech-v-tech Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT 10:00 Geoffrey Challen false full Agentic development is not magic, just another skill. It must be learned. It can be taught. Read by a synthetic voice, a clone of Geoffrey Challen's own. The essay: https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-04-28-another-skill https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-04-28-another-skill https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-04-28-another-skill Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT 6:28 Geoffrey Challen false full Don't use AI to do assignments not designed to be done with AI. Read by a synthetic voice, a clone of Geoffrey Challen's own. The essay: https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-04-25-with-or-without-ai https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-04-25-with-or-without-ai https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-04-25-with-or-without-ai Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT 3:40 Geoffrey Challen false full Maybe I never actually loved to code. Read by a synthetic voice, a clone of Geoffrey Challen's own. The essay: https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-04-10-healing-agents https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-04-10-healing-agents https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-04-10-healing-agents Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT 4:17 Geoffrey Challen false full The premium—economic or social—that accrues to people who control access to knowledge or cognitive capacity. Read by a synthetic voice, a clone of Geoffrey Challen's own. The essay: https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-04-02-epistemic-rents https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-04-02-epistemic-rents https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-04-02-epistemic-rents Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT 2:12 Geoffrey Challen false full Practicing what you profess. Read by a synthetic voice, a clone of Geoffrey Challen's own. The essay: https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-03-05-teaching-and-doing https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-03-05-teaching-and-doing https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-03-05-teaching-and-doing Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT 3:41 Geoffrey Challen false full AlphaGo didn't just beat humans—it changed how we understand Go. AI coding agents will do the same to software development, if we let them. Read by a synthetic voice, a clone of Geoffrey Challen's own. The essay: https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-03-01-move-37-coding https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-03-01-move-37-coding https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2026-03-01-move-37-coding Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT 4:38 Geoffrey Challen false full