aiEDU Studios
by aiEDU: The AI Education Project
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About this podcast
aiEDU Studios is a podcast from the team at The AI Education Project.
Each week, a new guest joins us for a deep-dive discussion about the ever-changing world of AI, technology, K-12 education, and other topics that will impact the next generation of the American workforce and social fabric.
Learn more about aiEDU at https://www.aiEDU.org
Episodes
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- Adam Feiler-Ware on Why History Class Is the Place to Teach AI · 54 min · Episode 54Most plans for teaching AI start with the tools. At DREAM Charter Schools, Adam Feiler-Ware's team started in history class, with an AI-generated claim printed next to a verified…
- Jim Secreto on How U.S. Voters are Making Sense of AI and Education · 1 h 57 min · Episode 53AI is becoming one of the biggest political issues of our time. But are our political institutions, schools, and communities actually prepared for what's coming? Jim Secreto…
- Dr. Grant Nelson on When Building with AI Feels Like a Fever Dream · 2 h 27 min · Episode 52Using AI can feel like a fever dream: you get the result you wanted with no idea how you got there. Dr. Grant Nelson, an ER doctor who regularly writes code with AI, has a fix…
- Justin Steele on Raising Kids Who Build, Not Kids Who Outsource to AI · 1 h 6 min · Episode 51What separates a kid who builds with AI from a kid who outsources their thinking to it? For Justin Steele, a father of four daughters, it starts with one house rule: you write…
- Chong-Hao Fu on Putting Teachers Back at the Center of AI · 1 h 11 min · Season 1 Episode 50What's a better investment: a data center full of chips that expire in two years, or the people whose learning compounds across a lifetime? Chong-Hao Fu thinks the field has the…
- Carole Basile on Why Schools Have to Be Redesigned, Not Just Re-tooled · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 49Everyone wants a checklist for AI in schools. Carole Basile thinks that's the wrong instinct — because the real problem isn't the technology, it's the 19th-century structure…
- Shortcuts, Skeptics, and What Schools Keep Getting Backwards · 1 h 12 min · Season 1 Episode 48Andy Rotherham has spent 25 years advising the education sector — co-founding Bellwether, serving in the Clinton administration and on the Virginia Board of Education, and…
- The Case for Mentorship in an AI World — Sarah Morgenthau & Michael Barrett · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 47Sarah Morgenthau runs the "I Have A Dream" Foundation; Michael Barrett has helped govern it from the Board while serving as a trustee at the University of Pennsylvania. Between…
- The Jagged Edge: Why Working With AI Is the New Human Skill · 1 h 3 min · Season 1 Episode 46Wim Sweldens has watched technology remake itself for forty years — Bell Labs, mobile networks, and now Kiswe, the interactive live-streaming company he co-founded. The last time…
- Change Management as a Learning Problem (with Jennifer Husbands) · 1 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 45Two decades of working on school improvement — at High Tech High, at Chicago Public Schools, at the Gates Foundation, and now through her own consulting practice — have left…
- How can we reinvent public education for the AI era? With Robin Lake · 1 h 2 min · Season 1 Episode 44Robin Lake has been studying public education from the systems level for more than thirty years. Her diagnosis is sharper than most: we built a school system for an average…
- We're Funding the Wrong Side of AI in Education — with Bree & Babak · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 43In 2017, before ChatGPT existed, a 180,000-student district in Georgia decided to build the first AI-ready high school in the country. Babak Mostaghimi was one of the people who…
- What Is STEM Education Actually For? — with Dr. Patrice Johnson of Project Scientist · 36 min · Season 1 Episode 42"It's not that girls aren't good at STEM. It's the confidence around 'can I do STEM?'" That's Dr. Patrice Johnson, and her quiet challenge to the dominant frame of STEM education…
- Matt Sigelman: AI Raises the Bar – It Doesn't Lower It · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 41Matt Sigelman has spent two decades building the most granular picture anyone has of how the labor market actually works – first at Lightcast, now at the Burning Glass Institute…
- Michelle Culver: Why school has to be designed around relationships · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 40What if the most important thing school can teach kids in the AI era isn't how to use the technology — but how to stay in relationship with each other? That's the question…
- Kaya Henderson: Stop underestimating kids · 56 min · Season 1 Episode 39What if the biggest problem in education isn't technology — it's that we've reduced school to reading scores and graduation rates and stripped away everything that actually makes…
- Tony Wan: AI is raising the bar – is education ready? · 56 min · Season 1 Episode 38What does the rise of AI mean for schools, startups, and the skills students actually need? Tony Wan – Head of Platform at Reach Capital and former co-founder of EdSurge – has…
- Erin Mote: AI literacy is as foundational as reading · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 37What if AI literacy belonged alongside reading and math as a foundational skill – not tucked inside a computer science elective? That's the case Erin Mote, CEO of InnovateEDU…
- Copley High School: Students tell us how AI is helping and hurting · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 36Do the benefits of generative AI in education outweigh the harms? We sat down with Copley High School debate team members Anna and Charlotte, two sharp juniors who placed 5th at…
- Pat Yongpradit: Coding isn't dead, it's evolving · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 35What if AI didn’t kill coding but made learning it more meaningful? We sat down with Pat Yongpradit (former Chief Academic Officer at Code.org) to unpack why computer science…
