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Ep236. ft. Belen Albarracin - The AI Fluency Trap: Why Language Learners Still Need Human Teachers (Part 2)
AI can make learners feel fluent. The dangerous question is whether that confidence survives a conversation with an actual human being.
Part 2 of my conversation with Belen Albarracin moves beyond AI tools and into one of the biggest educational questions of our generation:
What should humans refuse to outsource?
We explore AI codes of conduct, responsible classroom use, cognitive offloading, critical thinking, speaking confidence, the illusion of fluency, frustration, classroom management, homework, AI tutors, textbooks—and why the human teacher remains irreplaceable.
Belen explains why…
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