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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

  1. 2d ago

    Adam Feiler-Ware on Why History Class Is the Place to Teach AI

    Most 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 historical source and students checking one against the other. Adam Feiler-Ware is Deputy Chief of Learning at DREAM Charter Schools, a birth-to-career network in East Harlem and the South Bronx, where he oversees academics, special education, enrichment, and the network's AI strategy. In a history unit DREAM co-designed with aiEDU, sixth and seventh graders' scores on prompting, evaluating, and verifying AI output rose by 30 points or more. Before DREAM, he spent 11 years at Uncommon Schools as a teacher, school leader, and network curriculum director, and that curriculum builder's lens runs through everything here.  He sat down with Alex in New York to talk about building AI lessons and tools that strengthen the human side of school. Learn more at https://wearedream.org. aiEDU: The AI Education Project aiEDU.orglinkedin.com/company/aiedu/

  2. Oct 29

    Jim Secreto on How U.S. Voters are Making Sense of AI and Education

    AI 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 Managing Director of Narrative Strategies, a former senior official in the Biden White House, and previously worked at the Department of Commerce. He is also a member of aiEDU's advisory board. He has spent much of his career working at the intersection of politics, technology, and public policy.  He sat down with Alex to talk about why AI is becoming a kitchen-table issue for American voters, how growing economic anxiety and distrust of technology companies are shaping public opinion, and what the upcoming elections could mean for the future of AI regulation. Here's what they cover: Politics, mentorship, and career pathways — Early experiences in political organizing, and the value of civic engagement, emerging skills, career opportunities, adaptability, and youth leadership.AI and the 2026 and 2028 midterm elections — How artificial intelligence is becoming a major political issue for American voters,, political polarization, populism, and technology's influence on political campaigns.Public opinion and growing AI skepticism — Concerns about data centers, economic insecurity, AI jobs, surveillance, environmental impacts, and technology companies.The politics of AI regulation — Congressional oversight, potential legislation, and the challenges of governing rapidly evolving technology.AI literacy and civic education — Why students need to understand both emerging technologies and their roles as informed citizens.AI in the classroom & educator concerns — Critical thinking, ethical questions, student engagement, and responsible AI education.Building public trust in AI — Why listening to communities and addressing their concerns matters more than simply promoting technology's benefits.AI adoption in government and the workplace — Institutional resistance, AI literacy among policymakers, and practical applications of AI tools.The essential role of teachers — The importance of educators, mentorship, teacher compensation, and their role in navigating technological change.aiEDU: The AI Education Project https://aiEDU.org aiEDU: The AI Education Project aiEDU.orglinkedin.com/company/aiedu/

  3. Oct 26

    Dr. Grant Nelson on When Building with AI Feels Like a Fever Dream

    Using 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, and he's working out how it applies well beyond code. Dr. Grant Nelson is an emergency physician at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, where he has directed emergency ultrasound since 2017, leads the clinical ultrasound fellowship, and teaches as core faculty in the emergency medicine residency. He's also a self-taught software engineer who builds his own teaching tools, including Ultrasound Director, a bedside ultrasound curriculum paired with a VR simulator, and ResQBank, where residents learn by writing board-style questions with an AI mentor. He sat down with Alex to talk about what AI is changing in medicine, and what it shouldn't be allowed to skip in learning. Learn more about Ultrasound Director: https://www.ultrasounddirector.com  Learn more about ResQBank: https://www.resqbank.com  Sign up for more information from aiEDU: The AI Education Project https://aiEDU.org aiEDU: The AI Education Project aiEDU.orglinkedin.com/company/aiedu/

  4. Oct 15

    Justin Steele on Raising Kids Who Build, Not Kids Who Outsource to AI

    What 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 the first draft.  Justin spent a decade at Google.org, leading philanthropy across the Americas and directing nearly $700 million in grants. He left at the end of 2024, taught himself to build with AI, and has since logged roughly 5,000 hours doing it. That work became Kindora, a public benefit corporation that helps 1,300 nonprofits find funders, and Outdoorithm, the camping platform he runs with his wife, Sally.  He sat down with Alex to talk about what it actually takes to go from AI consumer to AI builder, and why ownership is the part we keep skipping.  aiEDU: The AI Education Project aiEDU.orglinkedin.com/company/aiedu/

  5. Jul 9

    Chong-Hao Fu on Putting Teachers Back at the Center of AI

    What'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 answer backwards. Chong-Hao is CEO of Leading Educators, the national nonprofit behind some of the strongest evidence we have on what actually moves the needle for kids; including being the first professional learning organization in a decade to reach Tier 1 What Works Clearinghouse status. He sat down with Alex to work through what responsible AI in schools really demands, and why the teacher keeps getting left out of the conversation. Learn more at leadingeducators.org. aiEDU: The AI Education Project aiEDU.orglinkedin.com/company/aiedu/

  6. Jul 2

    Carole Basile on Why Schools Have to Be Redesigned, Not Just Re-tooled

    Everyone 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 we're dropping it into. Dr. Carole Basile is Dean of ASU's Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation, where she's spent nearly a decade rebuilding the education workforce around teams of educators instead of one teacher alone with 25 kids. Before higher ed, she spent over a decade in the corporate world — and that organizational lens runs through everything here. In this episode:  Why "embracing AI" at ASU means building human relationships, not replacing themThe metacognitive data we've never had before — and the ethical obligation that comes with seeing itWhy there's no teacher shortage, only a shortage of people who'll do an impossible job"Principled innovation": the what-should-we-build framework ASU started in 2016, before the AI waveWhy the AI-cheating panic is a signal to redesign assessments, not police studentsThe curriculum-company business model AI is quietly threatening — and the "Spotify moment" for textbooksUsing AI for possibility thinking — expanding what a team can imagine, not handing over the answersWhy K-12 keeps modeling itself on universities instead of on how the world actually worksDr. Carole Basile — Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation, Arizona State University: https://education.asu.edu aiEDU: The AI Education Project aiEDU.orglinkedin.com/company/aiedu/

  7. Jun 25

    Shortcuts, Skeptics, and What Schools Keep Getting Backwards

    Andy 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 writing Eduwonk. He's also clear about something that's become unfashionable to say plainly: he's a skeptic of how AI will be used in schools, even as he takes the technology dead seriously. That distinction runs through this whole conversation with Alex. They sit with the hard tensions instead of resolving them too quickly. Why is the most valuable thing a student can do still "learn something about something"? Why does Andy now think telling his kids to learn to code may have been wrong and what does that uncertainty mean for everyone else? What happens to a generation that got social media, a year of closed schools, an AI-disrupted job market, and now AI companions that behave like the "perfect friend"? And what's his real worry about schools: not that AI replaces teachers, but that we hand kids the shortcuts before they ever learn to do the work the right way. It's a measured, occasionally contrarian conversation for anyone trying to think clearly past the hype. Read Andy at eduwonk.com and find Bellwether's AI work at bellwether.org. aiEDU: The AI Education Project aiEDU.orglinkedin.com/company/aiedu/

  8. Jun 18

    The Case for Mentorship in an AI World — Sarah Morgenthau & Michael Barrett

    Sarah 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 them they make a grounded case: the technology is changing fast, but the thing that actually improves a kid's life hasn't changed at all: a long-term relationship with someone who keeps showing up. Across the conversation they get specific about what that looks like in practice: wraparound services in Title I schools, AI Dream Labs that put real hardware in students' hands, a mock interview that ended in tears, and an honest reckoning with whether "go to college" is still the right advice. The throughline is a refusal to accept that a kid's circumstances should decide their future — and a 45-year bet that long-term relationships are what change it.  "I Have A Dream" Foundation https://www.ihaveadreamfoundation.org aiEDU: The AI Education Project aiEDU.orglinkedin.com/company/aiedu/

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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

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    aiEDU: The AI Education Project
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
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