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The Teachers AI Café

The Teachers AI Café is a podcast designed for educators eager to harness the power of artificial intelligence in their classrooms. Join us for engaging conversations, practical tips, and real-world examples on how AI can streamline lesson preparation, provide insightful feedback, and foster student skill development. Whether you’re a tech novice or a digital native, this café is your go-to space to learn, share, and revolutionize your teaching with AI.

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AI Tech Update for Educators 9th Mar

March 09, 2026 • Kane Pittard • Season 1 • Episode 62

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Kane from the Teacher’s AI Cafe shares major March 9 AI platform updates focused on saving teachers time. He highlights the release of ChatGPT 5.4, including a new “thinking plan” that outlines an approach before answering so teachers can adjust lesson sequences or summaries early, plus a much larger context window nearing a million tokens for analyzing long documents and building extended curriculum in one prompt. He also notes an AI version for Excel that interprets datasets, formulas, and patterns inside spreadsheets. The episode compares platform competition, mentions Claude’s expanded memory and users hitting limits due to chat scanning, GitHub Copilot adding a GR coding model option, and warns about web-based prompt injection attacks, urging educators to verify sources and treat outputs critically.

00:00 Welcome to Teachers AI Cafe

00:21 ChatGPT 5.4 Thinking Plan

01:15 Million Token Context Window

02:09 ChatGPT Inside Excel

02:51 Claude Memory and Limits

03:29 GitHub Copilot Multi Models

04:06 Prompt Injection Security Risks

04:57 Choosing the Right Platform

05:49 Wrap Up and Invitation

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