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During that time, he designed and taught inquiry-based, project-driven curricula across English, history, and mathematics. He also brought immersive technologies into the classroom after securing grant funding for virtual reality headsets. Mark\u2019s current research focuses on the use of customized large language models as dialogic learning companions and evaluators.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\"><strong>Conference Presentations:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>June 2025<\/span><span> <\/span><span>Italian Society for Social Studies of Science and Technology, Milan, Italy<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Panel Presentation: Redefining Relationships: Human Vulnerability and AI-driven Technologies <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/stsitalia.org\/conference.pdf\"><span>LINK<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>April 2022 \u00a0 <\/span><span> <\/span><span>Alternative Education Resource Organization, Online Conference<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Keynote Speaker:\u00a0 \u201cReady Or Not Player One:\u00a0 Will Virtual Reality Improve or Destroy K-12 Education\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>March 2018<\/span><span> <\/span><span>European Democratic Education Conference Paris, France<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Keynote Speaker:\u00a0 \u201cCurriculum and Democratic Education:\u00a0 Inconsistent or Compatible?\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/2018\/03\/\"><span>LINK<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\"><strong>Publications:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Slated for Publication in 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Book Chapter in <\/span><span>AI, Empathy and the Human Connection,<\/span><span> Punisher:\u00a0 Springer Nature<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Chapter Title:\u00a0 \u201cDesigning LLMs for Deeper Human-AI Relationships: A Social Penetration Theory Approach\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Special Moms\u2019 Network, November 2016<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>\u201cLongview School:\u00a0 Real Inclusion for the 21st Century\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Community Works Journal, April 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>\u201cAn A for Effort?\u00a0 Grading Grades in the 21st Century\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Turning Points: 35 Visionaries in Education Tell Their Own Stories, 2010<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Chapter 14:\u00a0 \u201cInside-Out Learning\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Trusting Children, 2006<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Chapter 1:\u00a0 \u201cWhat If Children Wanted to Learn\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Chapter 14:\u00a0 \u201cThe Truth about Lying\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 15:\u00a0 \u201cChoices\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":40833,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"cu_faculty_f180_userid":"C70106247","cu_faculty_first_name":"Mark","cu_faculty_last_name":"Jacobs","cu_faculty_employment_status":"Part Time","cu_faculty_rank":"Instructor","cu_faculty_position":"Part-time Instructor<br \/>Part-time Instructor<br \/>Visiting Scholar","cu_faculty_phone":"","cu_faculty_email":"MJacobs@clarku.edu","cu_faculty_location":"","cu_faculty_about":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><\/span>Mark Jacobs teaches in both the Master\u2019s in AI program and the undergraduate philosophy department.\u00a0 He is the Director of the Clark University Socr-AI-tic Lab for Collaborative Pedagogy (socraiticlab.org), which <span>serves as a hub for research, development, and\u00a0<\/span><span>implementation\u00a0<\/span><span>of AI-integrated pedagogical practices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Before joining Clark, Mark founded Longview School in Brewster, New York\u2014a democratic, student-centered middle and high school\u2014serving as its director for 22 years. 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Mark\u2019s current research focuses on the use of customized large language models as dialogic learning companions and evaluators.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><strong>Conference Presentations:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>June 2025<\/span><span> <\/span><span>Italian Society for Social Studies of Science and Technology, Milan, Italy<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Panel Presentation: Redefining Relationships: Human Vulnerability and AI-driven Technologies <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/stsitalia.org\/conference.pdf\"><span>LINK<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>April 2022 \u00a0 <\/span><span> <\/span><span>Alternative Education Resource Organization, Online Conference<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Keynote Speaker:\u00a0 \u201cReady Or Not Player One:\u00a0 Will Virtual Reality Improve or Destroy K-12 Education\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>March 2018<\/span><span> <\/span><span>European Democratic Education Conference Paris, France<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Keynote Speaker:\u00a0 \u201cCurriculum and Democratic Education:\u00a0 Inconsistent or Compatible?\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/2018\/03\/\"><span>LINK<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><strong>Publications:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Slated for Publication in 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Book Chapter in <\/span><span>AI, Empathy and the Human Connection,<\/span><span> Punisher:\u00a0 Springer Nature<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Chapter Title:\u00a0 \u201cDesigning LLMs for Deeper Human-AI Relationships: A Social Penetration Theory Approach\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Special Moms\u2019 Network, November 2016<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>\u201cLongview School:\u00a0 Real Inclusion for the 21st Century\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Community Works Journal, April 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>\u201cAn A for Effort?\u00a0 Grading Grades in the 21st Century\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Turning Points: 35 Visionaries in Education Tell Their Own Stories, 2010<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Chapter 14:\u00a0 \u201cInside-Out Learning\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Trusting Children, 2006<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Chapter 1:\u00a0 \u201cWhat If Children Wanted to Learn\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Chapter 14:\u00a0 \u201cThe Truth about Lying\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 15:\u00a0 \u201cChoices\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>","cu_faculty_degrees":"<span>M.F.A. in Digital Media Design,<\/span> Clark University, 2025\n<span>M.A.T. in English,<\/span> Manhattanville College, 1994","cu_faculty_cv":"","cu_faculty_links":"[]","cu_faculty_scholarly_interests":"AI and Pedagogy","cu_faculty_scholarly_works":"","cu_faculty_awards_and_grants":"","cu_faculty_title":"Part-time Instructor, SPS<br \/>Part-time Instructor, Philosophy<br \/>Visiting Scholar, Philosophy","cu_faculty_department":"SPS","cu_faculty_affiliated_departments":"SPS","footnotes":""},"cu_faculty_group":[],"cu_faculty_department":[34],"cu_faculty_position":[],"class_list":["post-2073","cu_faculty","type-cu_faculty","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_faculty_department-sps"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mark Jacobs | Faculty<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/mark-jacobs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mark Jacobs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mark Jacobs teaches in both the Master\u2019s in AI program and the undergraduate philosophy department.\u00a0 He is the Director of the Clark University Socr-AI-tic Lab for Collaborative Pedagogy (socraiticlab.org), which serves as a hub for research, development, and\u00a0implementation\u00a0of AI-integrated pedagogical practices. 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