Biography
Mark Jacobs teaches in both the Master’s in AI program and the undergraduate philosophy department at Clark University. He is the Director of Clark's Socr-AI-tic Lab for Collaborative Pedagogy (socraiticlab.org), which serves as a hub for research, development, and implementation of AI-integrated pedagogical practices.
Before joining Clark, Mark founded Longview School in Brewster, New York—a democratic, student-centered middle and high school—serving as its director for 22 years. 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’s current research focuses on the use of customized large language models as dialogic learning companions and evaluators.
