Dr. Jose Bowen on Teaching with AI: When Knowledge Is Free and Thinking Is the Work

In this episode of the Smarter Campus Podcast, Zach sits down with Jose Bowen, author of Teaching with AI and longtime higher-education leader, to explore one of the most important shifts education has ever faced.Dr. Bowen argues that while the internet changed our relationship with knowledge, AI is changing our relationship with thinking itself. As information becomes abundant—but increasingly unreliable—educators are no longer just teaching content. They’re teaching how to think, how to evaluate, and how to work alongside intelligent systems.In this conversation, they discuss:Why AI should be viewed as a thinking partner, not just a toolWhat it means to teach when you’re no longer the “expert in the room”How AI reshapes writing, feedback, and learning processesWhy metacognition and bias awareness are now core educational skillsHow faculty can prepare students for a world where thinking itself is augmentedThis episode is essential listening for faculty, instructional designers, and academic leaders navigating what teaching looks like when AI is embedded into how humans reason, write, and decide.