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

aiEDU Studios is a education podcast hosted by aiEDU: The AI Education Project, with 50 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #50

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

  Jul 9, 20261h 11mS1

  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.org linkedin.com/company/aiedu/

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  Episode #49

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

  Jul 2, 202651 minS1

  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 them The metacognitive data we've never had before — and the ethical obligation that comes with seeing it Why 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 wave Why the AI-cheating panic is a signal to redesign assessments, not police students The curriculum-company business model AI is quietly threatening — and the "Spotify moment" for textbooks Using AI for possibility thinking — expanding what a team can imagine, not handing over the answers Why K-12 keeps modeling itself on universities instead of on how the world actually works Dr. Carole Basile — Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation, Arizona State University: https://education.asu.edu aiEDU: The AI Education Project aiEDU.org linkedin.com/company/aiedu/

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  Episode #48

  Shortcuts, Skeptics, and What Schools Keep Getting Backwards

  Jun 25, 20261h 13mS1

  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.org linkedin.com/company/aiedu/

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  Episode #47

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

  Jun 18, 202650 minS1

  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.org linkedin.com/company/aiedu/

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  Episode #46

  The Jagged Edge: Why Working With AI Is the New Human Skill

  Jun 11, 20261h 3mS1

  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 him "everything that's not on the internet doesn't exist." His answer to this one is AIQ: a way of measuring not how smart AI is, but how well humans navigate its jagged edge — the boundary where a model brilliant at one task fails absurdly at a nearly identical one. The unsettling part: that edge moves daily, which means your AIQ falls every day you don't work at it. Alex and Wim trace what that means for how we learn and work: the math teacher (Wim's father) who let students bring calculators in exchange for a harder exam, the engineers at Kiswe who now throw away code because the English specification is the source of truth, the test agent that cheated by reading the code it was supposed to test, and why "the point of a teacher is not to transfer knowledge, but to transfer understanding.” Wim Sweldens is co-founder of Kiswe: https://www.kiswe.com Wim's writing on AIQ: https://substack.com/@wimsweldens aiEDU: The AI Education Project aiEDU.org linkedin.com/company/aiedu/

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