Prompted: Liberal Arts in the Age of AI

This podcast draw listeners into an ongoing conversation inside one university as it faces the promises and pressures of artificial intelligence. Each episode brings voices from across Calvin University—students and seasoned faculty, media researchers and business thinkers, theologians, technologists, and campus leaders—who are all asking how AI is reshaping learning, creativity, and Christian intellectual life. Rather than offering final answers, the podcast opens a shared space for questions: What should guide our imaginations now? How do we teach, study, and lead well in this time?

Prompted: Liberal Arts in the Age of AI is a education podcast hosted by Calvin University, with 5 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Calvin University hosts Prompted: Liberal Arts in the Age of AI, a education show with 5 episodes published.

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  Early-Careerists Are Overwhelmed

  Feb 28, 202627 minS0

  <p>Episode 5 of Prompted: Liberal Arts in the Age of AI shifts the mic to those who will inherit the world most shaped by artificial intelligence: emerging scholars and young professionals. The conversation features Adam Plowman, Dacey Redman, Taheer Alibhai, Alex Johnson, and Chloe Yonkus—graduate students and rising professionals from Calvin University's Masters of Media and Strategic Communication. You'll appreciate the tone of realism, skepticism, and sometimes unease that distinguishes this episode from other conversations in this same series.</p><p>These Gen Z and young millennial voices reflect on what it means to come of age in an era...

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  What Kind of World Do We Want to Live in?

  Feb 28, 202639 minS0

  <p>Episode 4 of Prompted: Liberal Arts in the Age of AI brings together a rich variety of perspectives: ESL instructor Sara Vander Bie, graphic design professor Christopher Fox, chaplain Mary Hulst, and dean Kyle Small. Each one works daily with students who cross cultural, linguistic, or generational boundaries—and each one is wrestling with what AI means for the life we wish for and the world we seek.</p><p>Together, they explore how AI tools both connect and complicate relationships among learners who bring different life experiences, worldviews, and communication practices into the classroom. What changes when a first‑genera...

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  Can Learning Go Slow When Tech Goes Fast?

  Feb 28, 202637 minS0

  <p>In a world where everything is speeding up—information, expectations, distractions—how do we learn well? In Episode 3 of Prompted: Liberal Arts in the Age of AI, a theologian, a communication scholar, and a computer scientist--Sam Ha, Katie Day Good, and Fernando Santos--explore the tensions between unavoidable acceleration and indispensable friction.</p><p>Together they unpack why meaningful education can’t just keep pace with technological speed, and why moments of pause, difficulty, and resistance are often the very conditions that allow students to grow. From classroom practice to digital culture to the shaping of long-term habits of mind, this ep...

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  Do Students Need to Recall Anything?

  Feb 28, 202636 minS0

  <p>Prompted: Liberal Arts in the Age of AI returns for Episode 2 with a conversation about the sometimes unsettling invitations of Generative AI for liberal arts educators. Drawing on the insights of a technologist, a media specialist, a supply-chain professor, and an adult-learning administrator--Ken Arnold, Katie Day Good, Philip Johnson, and Abbie Lipsker—this episode explores fresh ideas for tech-free "Walden Zones" on campus, right next to tech-saturate innovation spaces. </p><p>The conversationalists don't agree on everything, especially when it comes to the role of memory in learning. They do agree on the need for virtue formation and explore dif...

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  Early Findings from Our Experiments with AI

  Feb 28, 202638 minS1

  <p>Episode 1 brings together voices from across Calvin University to explore how AI is reshaping creativity, learning, and institutional life.</p><p>What role should friction and difficulty play in learning? Art historian Craig Hanson, Calvin vice president Sarah Visser, triple‑major undergraduate Pauline Lu, and documentary filmmaker Sam Smartt join host Craig Mattson for a lively, inquisitive conversation about what it means to teach, learn, imagine, and produce in an age of intelligent tools. The discussants reflect on curiosity, craft, discernment, and the shifting texture of human creativity.</p><p>The episode is edited by Riley Johnston, produced by Craig Matts...

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