You Can't Shape What You Won't Use: Anne Leftwich on AI at Indiana University
IU's Anne Leftwich on why AI holdouts forfeit their seat at the table, GenAI 101 for everyone, and why K-12 bans fail like abstinence-only everything.
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Student-Led AI in Schools: Richmond Tech Team on MagicSchool, AI Literacy & Future Jobs
Jeremy Hill's Richmond HS tech team red-teamed MagicSchool for two weeks, and now students run the district's AI rollout.
AI Jobs for CS Grads in 2026: Why Startups Beat Big Tech
Purdue CS junior Bohyeon Jang on the frozen Big Tech entry-level market and why AI-fluent grads should target startups and SMBs instead.
Starting AI Conversations in Elementary School
Zionsville digital learning coach Stevie Frank on age-appropriate AI conversations from kindergarten up, in a district that never blocked ChatGPT.
Resumes Are Dead. Here's What CS Students Should Do Instead
Purdue's Ethan Dawes, the "Can AI do this?" sign guy, on why mass-applying is broken and what portfolios, oral exams, and AI scaffolding fix.
Magic School AI vs ChatGPT: Safer AI for K-12 Classrooms
CIESC's Tanika Kinartail on how vertical AI handles students differently than ChatGPT and train-the-trainer PD for districts with no budget.
Alpha School: Kids Learn 2X Faster in 2 Hours a Day
Alpha School's Sofia Swanson walks through the 2 Hour Learning model, top-1% MAP claims, and the selection-bias question, with co-host Ronda Swartz.
Grade the Prompt, Not Just the Paper: AI in College Classrooms
Ivy Tech's Mark Lowe is piloting grading the AI prompt alongside the paper, treating AI as tutor and debate partner instead of policing it.
How Should Teachers Use AI Without Killing Critical Thinking?
Hunter Hickman returns: AI makes students faster, but is it making them better thinkers, and how a rural district trains teachers either way.
Are Teachers Ready to Teach AI? Indiana's Answer
Ryan Murray on building Indiana's AI teacher certification from scratch and what readiness actually looks like.
AI Literacy Is a Workforce Requirement. Are K-12 Schools Ready?
Kristen Kayser on what AI literacy actually means for K-12 students and why most districts are getting it wrong.
How Community Colleges Are Building AI Workforce Pathways in 2026
Ivy Tech's Amanda Wilkerson on how community colleges are building AI workforce pathways ahead of the four-years.
How College Students Should Use AI to Get Hired in 2026
How college students should actually use AI in the job hunt without outsourcing the thinking that gets them hired.
Why AI Adoption Fails Without Behavior Change
Nick Bonora on why AI rollouts stall for the same reason most conferences are forgettable: nobody designed for behavior change.
Middle School Teacher Uses AI to Save Time and Know Students Better
Language arts teacher Patty Oshier on using AI to build better lessons, claw back time, and actually know her students better.
ChatGPT in Paramedic School: How One EMT Stopped Reading Textbooks
Jordan Meyers on trading the textbook grind for ChatGPT study workflows in paramedic school.
AI Can't Replace Your Music Teacher (But It Should Help)
Future Proof Music School founder John von Seggern on where AI belongs in music education and where the human teacher stays.
What Employers Actually Want: AI Skills + People Skills
Transformation coach Lena Morris on pairing AI fluency with the people skills employers keep saying they can't find.
Why This Is AI's 1980s Garage Moment for Students
A Columbia grad turned Wall Street quant turned AI entrepreneur on why students are living the 1980s garage moment and need digital literacy first.
Not Your Granny's Approach to AI Literacy
Patty McGee brings 31 years of classroom experience to AI and writing instruction, testing tools with students and pushing back on detection.
Paramedics, Prompts, and High School Healthcare
Teaching Tulsa high schoolers to run real healthcare scenarios through ChatGPT, with paramedic instructor Rebekah Dearing.
Navigating AI in Education: Insights from MIT
MIT PhD candidate BreAnne Fleer on curious skepticism over blind adoption, what the Luddites actually opposed, and why coding literacy still matters.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Truth
Courtney Bock trained AI chatbots in 2010, became a K-5 educator, and now leads district-wide AI implementation with no illusions.
Skills, Schools, and the Pace of AI
Carmel Mayor Sue Finkam and Invest Hamilton County's Mike Thibideau get pressed on whether schools are keeping pace with AI's job shifts.
The Data Skills Gap: Why Healthcare and Education Need Data Science Grads Now
Julian Yoon explains data lakes with laundry baskets and why healthcare and education need data science grads now.
Is the Current Education System Useless?
Dr. KaT Zarychta on the global student mental-health crisis, 1 in 3 young adults feeling isolated, and AI as ally rather than threat.
"He Hates Those Other Models!"
Eduaide.ai founder Thomas Hummel on building a teacher AI tool from a Title I classroom to a million educators in 130+ countries.
Dr. Bubbles Blueprint for Tomorrow's Schools
"Dr. Bubbles" Ronda Swartz on rolling out School AI to hesitant teachers and why Catholic schools may be positioned for the AI era.
Rural AI Success: How a Small Indiana School District Actually Implemented Khanmigo
Hunter Hickman on how Rensselaer Central hit 92% student activation with Khanmigo while big districts were still debating policy.
Why This 21-Year-Old Isn't Worried About Robots Taking Her Job
A Purdue industrial engineering senior on landing offers through networking and why complacency, not automation, is the real career threat.
Teachers Who Drink and Whine
Former elementary and special-ed teacher Mary Dougherty on AI turning teachers into facilitators and opening doors for special-needs students.
The TikTok Generation's AI Problem: Climate Myths and Career Reality
Kimba Rund returns to debunk the viral AI water-bottle myth and explain what her generation actually thinks about AI careers.
"I Didn't Know a Fourth Grader Could Change the World": AI in K-12
Solutions architect Karisa Schwanekamp on the pandemic moment that changed her teaching and learning alongside students with AI.
Boiler Up for the Future of Education with Purdue Professor of Practice Dr. Kathryn Dilworth
Purdue's Kathryn Dilworth on her QUIZ methodology for teaching students to control AI instead of being controlled by it.
Raising AI: Why We Need to Parent Our Artificial Children
AI pioneer De Kai argues we should stop treating AI as machines and start parenting them as artificial children.
The Entrepreneurial Professor: Bridging Academia and Business Reality
Susan Woods on AI adoption across generations and why human oversight and critical thinking stay non-negotiable.
Future-Proofing Education with Brooklyn Burton
Launch episode: Ivy Tech Lafayette Vice Chancellor Brooklyn Burton on AI-driven workforce and economic development.
AGI - School's Out Saturdays PRE-LAUNCH PEP-RALLY (Episode 25)
Pre-launch special with transformation coach Lena Morris on AI adoption and human behavioral change in education.