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, writing, and digital learning. Her research focuses on how AI and other digital tools can support writing instruction, digital literacy, and student learning across secondary and postsecondary education. As PI of multiple grants on AI-based writing, including NSF-funded work, she has led efforts to develop generative AI writing tools, curricula, and faculty resources that integrate AI into teaching and learning without offloading essential skill development. A frequent speaker on AI in education, Dr. Tate teaches AI in Education courses for master’s students and higher education instructors, helping educators critically and responsibly integrate AI into teaching and learning. She is also part of intersegmental efforts across California’s public higher education systems to advance responsible AI use in academic writing and digital literacy. Dr. Tate brings an interdisciplinary background in education, English, and law, with a PhD and BA from UC Irvine and a JD from UC 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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