Tamara Tate, PhD

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Tamara Tate is Associate Director of the Digital Learning Lab.

Tamara leads the Lab's work on generative AI and writing. As the PI of an NSF-funded grant, she studied the use of generative AI in undergraduate writing courses from 2023-6. In our California Learning Lab AI Grand Challenge Grant, we are extending this work to CSUs and California Community Colleges. We are also working with middle school teachers to bring generative AI to ELA and Spanish classes.

Tamara received her B.A. in English and her Ph.D. in Education at U.C. Irvine and her J.D. at U.C. Berkeley. 

Tamara can be reached at [email protected]
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Recent work

Tate, T.P., Ritchie, D.R., & Warschauer, M. (2026). Generative AI as a mediational agent: Rethinking learning in sociocultural theory. https://doi.org/10.35542/osf.io/wcpj5_v1

​Tate, T., Tseng, W., Harnick-Shapiro, B., Ritchie, D., & Warschauer, M. (2026). The impact of AI on the process of learning to write. In B. K. Litts, D. DeLiema, C. Lee, S. Krist, A. Mawasi, L. Martin, & K. Kumpulainen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2026 (pp. 1407–1411). International Society of the Learning Sciences.​

Choi, J., Wu, R., Tate, T., Tseng, W., Harnick-Shapiro, B., Yim, S., & Warschauer, M. (2026). Redistributing cognition in AI-supported writing. In B. K. Litts, D. DeLiema, C. Lee, S. Krist, A. Mawasi, L. Martin, & K. Kumpulainen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2026 (pp. 1507–1511). International Society of the Learning Sciences.

Harnick-Shapiro, B., Tate, T.P., Tran, S., & Warschauer, M. (2026). AI Writing and Digital Literacy Fellows. (poster)

Tate, T.P., Harnick-Shapiro, B., Tseng, W., Dennin, M., & Warschauer, M. (2026, June). Student responses to the integration of generative AI into an upper division engineering writing course (IUSE) [Poster presentation]. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Charlotte NC. (paper)

Episode 24: Melts into Air, Teaching Writing in the Age of AI with Stephanie Tran and Tamara Tate

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