aiEDU Studios
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
48 episodes
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 ...
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, bu...
The Jagged Edge: Why Working With AI Is the New Human Skill
Wim 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 he felt anything like this moment was 1991, when a colleague told...
Change Management as a Learning Problem (with Jennifer Husbands)
Two 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 Jennifer Husbands with a fairly direct view of why AI adoption in scho...
How can we reinvent public education for the AI era? With Robin Lake
Robin 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 student who doesn't exist, and we keep placing kids in special educatio...
We're Funding the Wrong Side of AI in Education — with Bree & Babak
In 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 built it. Bree Dusseault, at Center on Reinventing Public Educatio...
What Is STEM Education Actually For? — with Dr. Patrice Johnson of Project Scientist
"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 — that the gap is technical when it's actually cultural ...
Matt Sigelman: AI Raises the Bar – It Doesn't Lower It
Matt 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. So when he says schools are asking the wrong question about AI, i...
Michelle Culver: Why school has to be designed around relationships
What 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 Michelle Culver, founder of The Rithm Project and a former senior leader...
Kaya Henderson: Stop underestimating kids
What 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 learning meaningful?Kaya Henderson took the lowest-perform...
Tony Wan: AI is raising the bar – is education ready?
What 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 spent over a decade watching education technology evolve. Now he's w...
Erin Mote: AI literacy is as foundational as reading
What 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, has been making for years. In this conversation, she gets specific a...
Copley High School: Students tell us how AI is helping and hurting
Do 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 Ohio’s state finals, to hear how they built win...
Pat Yongpradit: Coding isn't dead, it's evolving
What 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 ...
Celeste Riley: Teaching with AI, learning with critical thinking
Imagine a classroom where 5th graders present their research to younger students, take questions, and proudly defend their findings — and where AI is a quiet helper, not the centerpiece. That’s
Jared Chung: Career flexibility in an uncertain AI future
Ready for honest career guidance instead of stage-ready talking points? We sit down with CareerVillage.org founder Jared Chung...
Neeti Mehta Shukla: Work without the busywork
Imagine telling a chatbot to “onboard this vendor,” and it finishes the job across multiple systems in under a minute. On this episode, we sit down with Automation Anywhere co...
Victor Lee: Rethinking school and AI literacy
If you’ve ever wondered whether AI has 'broken' school, this conversation with Stanford associate professor Victor Lee cuts through the noise and gets to the heart of the ...
Sunanna Chand: Teachers matter more than technology
The hardest part of AI in education isn’t picking a tool. It’s deciding what kind of learning we want to protect, elevate, and scale.On this episode of aiEDU Studios, we dive straight into that question with Sunanna Chand, executi...
J.C. Brizard: Making a more humane education system
Teaching at Rikers Island isn’t a typical origin story for a future school district leader. And yet, it demonstrates that education works best as human development, not a test-prep machine. Former
Teens show us how they use AI
Teens don’t treat AI like magic. They treat it like a wrench — something that's useful, but only as good as the person using it. On this episode, we sat down with students who’ve put AI tools to work in surprising ways. Betwe...
Teaching kids how to use AI responsibly
Are you worried your teen is spending more time with a chatbot than with real friends? On this episode, we spoke with child/adolescent psychiatrists Dr. Jeremy Chapman and
Being citizens in an AI-powered world
AI can sound human, but it isn’t — and that difference changes how we teach, parent, and prepare kids for a future shaped by AI. On this episode, we dive into AI readiness: the blend of skills, ethics, and technical insight t...
