AI in Education Podcast

Podcast Unwrapped: Our 2025 AI in Education Awards

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this special end-of-year episode, Ray and Dan unwrap the biggest moments, ideas, guests, and breakthroughs that shaped AI in education in 2025. Fro...

AI just changed again - what schools and universities need to know this week

27 Nov 2025

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This week delivered one of the biggest waves of AI news in recent memory - and Dan and Ray unpack what it all means for schools, universities and voc...

UNE's AI Shake-Up: A Regional Uni Redefining the Rules?

20 Nov 2025

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In this episode, Ray sits down with Aaron Driver, Director of LabNext70 at the University of New England (UNE), a regional Australian university makin...

Meet the weird new jobs AI just invented

13 Nov 2025

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In this episode of the AI in Education Podcast, Ray and Dan wrap up Series 14 with a packed news and research roundup. They start with the tricky worl...

Education on Country: Peta-Anne Toohey on AI and Data Sovereignty

06 Nov 2025

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In this episode of the AI in Education Podcast, hosts Dan and Ray welcome Peta-Anne Toohey, Social Reciprocity Manager at Indigital, Australia's first...

Inside the AI Classroom: Dan & Ray's Big AI-in-Education Download

30 Oct 2025

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Inside the AI Classroom: Dan & Ray's Big AI-in-Education Download In this fast-paced news roundup, Dan and Ray dive head-first into the latest researc...

Becoming More Human in the Age of AI at University

23 Oct 2025

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Becoming More Human in the Age of AI at University What happens when AI knows everything - and humans must rediscover what makes us unique? In this ep...

The AI Mayhem Episode

16 Oct 2025

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In this week's episode of the AI and Education Podcast, Ray and Dan dive into one of the most chaotic – and entertaining – weeks in AI news so far...

Humans in AI – Creativity, Wellbeing & Technology in Education

09 Oct 2025

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Humans in AI – Creativity, Wellbeing & Technology in Education a researchers perspective Guest: Dr Rebecca Marrone, Lecturer & Researcher, Universit...

Schools and universities fast-track AI rollouts: from Oxford to Australia

02 Oct 2025

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This week, Dan and Ray bring a whirlwind of AI news, research, and reflection from across the education world. From South Australia and New South Wale...

From Learning to Earning: Education in an AI Age with David Yip

25 Sep 2025

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In this episode of the podcast, Dan and Ray sit down with David Yip - former Salesforce Director for Education in APAC, UNSW Business School advisory ...

AI Landgrabs, Lawsuits & Learning: AI in Education

18 Sep 2025

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In this news and research episode, Ray and Dan unpack a whirlwind of global developments in AI and education. From major US announcements, like Micros...

Simon Breakspear on AI - Slow Down: AI, Learning, and the Cognitive Escalator

11 Sep 2025

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In this weeks podcast Dan and Ray have a conversation about education with Dr Simon Breakspear.    Simon is a globally respected expert in education...

7 Surprising Truths About How Students Really Use AI

09 Sep 2025

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Introduction: Beyond the Hype and Panic   For the past couple of years, the conversation around students and artificial intelligence has been dominat...

AI Study Buddies, Compliance Cheaters, and the Rise of Corella

04 Sep 2025

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In this episode of the AI in Education Podcast, Ray and Dan dive into the latest news, tools, and research transforming education through AI. From Cha...

Be Human First: Leading with Purpose in an AI World - Dr Sophie Fenton

28 Aug 2025

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What does it really mean to lead in the age of AI? In this deeply insightful episode, Dr. Sophie Fenton  from Amicus joins us to explore the human si...

AI Tutors, Bias & GPT-5: What Just Happened?

21 Aug 2025

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In this episode of the AI in Education Podcast, Dan and Ray dive into the latest developments shaping the future of AI in learning environments - from...

Gen Z to Gen AI: What Students Really Think – with Dr Anna Denejkina

14 Aug 2025

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In this episode of the AI in Education Podcast, hosts Dan and Ray welcome back one of their favourite researchers, Dr Anna Denejkina, to unpack her la...

AI Study Mode, Super Tools & Future Jobs

07 Aug 2025

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This episode covers a massive amount of AI-related news and research, especially developments over the past week, including ChatGPT's new "study mode,...

Not Cheating - Learning: Students on Using AI Ethically

31 Jul 2025

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In this eye-opening episode of the podcast, hosts Ray and Dan are joined by a remarkable group of students from All Hallows School in Queensland. Part...

From Harvard bots to Aussie classrooms: the state of AI in education

24 Jul 2025

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From Harvard bots to Aussie classrooms: the state of AI in education In this solo news and research roundup, Ray covers some of the biggest recent sto...

AI, Assessments & A-Graders: A Student's POV

17 Jul 2025

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AI, Assessments & A-Graders: A Student's POV What happens when AI tools like ChatGPT and Google's VEO3 land in the hands of curious, creative high sch...

Union-Powered AI: PD Meets Big Tech

10 Jul 2025

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Union-Powered AI: PD Meets Big Tech This solo news-and-research roundup unpacks a blockbuster fortnight for AI in education, highlighting a landmark p...

AI by Students, for Students

03 Jul 2025

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Episode Series 12 Episode 8 AI by Students, for Students In this special episode of the AI in Education Podcast, recorded live at the AIS NSW ICT Man...

Does AI make you dumb?

26 Jun 2025

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After starting with an existential crisis - "Are we basically doing the AI equivalent of a maths calculator podcast from the 1970s?" - in this news an...

We finally meet Megan and James

20 Jun 2025

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We're halfway through Season 12 - the Student one - and in episode 6 you finally get to meet Megan (Year 7) and James (Year 11). Long-term listeners w...

Gen Z's AI Reality

13 Jun 2025

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In this news and research-packed episode, Ray and Dan dive deep into the AI highlights from EduTech 2025 in Sydney - reflecting on the vibe, standout ...

Students as AI Innovators, with Brett Moller

05 Jun 2025

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Students as AI Innovators In this inspiring episode of the podcast, hosts Ray and Dan speak with Brett Moller, Director of Knowledge Services / Head o...

Agents, Optimism & Essays: The Real AI Student Life

29 May 2025

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In this episode of the AI in Education Podcast, Dan and Ray dive deep into how students are really using - beyond the hype. They unpack recent findi...

Students First: How AI Is Changing Study Habits

22 May 2025

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In this episode of the AI in Education Podcast, hosts Ray and Dan kick off Series 12 with a powerful focus on students—how they learn, what they nee...

Tutor, Teacher, Cheater: What Students Really Think About AI

15 May 2025

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New Series Alert - all about students In the kickoff episode of Series 12, Dan and Ray set the stage for a deep dive into AI from the student's perspe...

From Hollywood to Healthcare: AI That Cares

08 May 2025

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In this special solo-hosted episode, Ray is joined by Dr. Mike Seymour from the University of Sydney, recorded live at the 2025 AI in Higher Educatio...

Uber Prompts and AI Myths

01 May 2025

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In this episode of the AI in Education Podcast, Ray and Dan return from a short break with a packed roundup of AI developments across education and be...

Designing the Future: Learning Designers Meet AI

10 Apr 2025

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Series 11, Episode 11 Designing the Future: Learning Designers Meet AI with Minh Huynh and Cory Dal Ponte In this episode of the AI in Education Podca...

From BYO AI to the Turing Test: What Just Happened in Education?

03 Apr 2025

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This week, Dan and Ray dive into a whirlwind of AI news shaking up the education world. From $40K private schools with AI tutors to universities repor...

How two people built an AI tool for 15,000 students

27 Mar 2025

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Yet again, Dan and Ray are the podcast hosts, but Ray's AI digital twin introduces the episode! This week's guests are: Lee Barrett – Prompt Enginee...

News & Research: The Global Shift from Policy to Practice

20 Mar 2025

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News Stories Covered in the Episode AI Typing Like a Human? – Graham Clay's LinkedIn post on ChatGPT Operator mimicking human keystrokes https://w...

78,000 Students, One Bold AI Ambition- Leigh Williams

13 Mar 2025

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In this episode of AI in Education, Dan and Ray sit down with Leigh Williams, CIO of Brisbane Catholic Education, to dive into one of the most ambiti...

Education in an AI age - Graham Brown-Martin

07 Mar 2025

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Dan and Ray welcome Graham Brown Martin, a seasoned expert in education technology, for a very(!) thought-provoking conversation about navigating educ...

From Butterflies to Bias: Dr. Nici Sweaney on Building Responsible AI in Schools

27 Feb 2025

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In this episode Dan and Ray sit down with Dr. Nici (Nikki) Sweaney—founder of "AI Her Way," gender equality advocate, and globally recognized AI con...

Faculty Perspectives on AI with Digital Education Council's Danny Bielik

20 Feb 2025

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In this episode, Ray and Dan are joined by Danny Bielik, President of the Digital Education Council, to discuss the findings of a global AI faculty su...

AI Book review, or News and Research?

13 Feb 2025

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Book Club Podcast? Before we even got to the News and Research, this week we discussed the AI-related books we're currently reading: Dan's reading: ...

AI Excellence: A Conversation with Katie Ford

06 Feb 2025

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This week we get to catch up with Katie Ford of Microsoft Australia, who tells us about the projects that have been happening in AI in Education aroun...

Reflecting on 2024 and Predicting the Year Ahead

30 Jan 2025

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And we're back! After a relaxing summer holiday Down Under (the school year finishes late December and doesn't restart until after the end of January ...

AI Podcast Wrapped for 2024

20 Dec 2024

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We look back on the highlights of 2024, and the mass of stories, challenges and inspirations we had throughout the year. And what a year - AI in educa...

AI News (and no research!)

13 Dec 2024

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A heap of news stories this week means we didn't cover any research at all! AI isn't a tool, it's an environment by Josh Thorpe https://wonkhe.com/blo...

The TEQSA AI Toolkit for Generative AI

05 Dec 2024

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This week's episode discussed the new AI toolkit for generative AI strategies from Australia's Higher Education regulator, TEQSA  The full toolkit i...

Everybody or Nobody is using AI - News and Research

28 Nov 2024

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Everybody or Nobody is using AI - News and ResearchSeries 10, Episode 8 We explore quite a lot of news related to AI in Education that arrived this we...

AI - Study Buddy or Influencer? with Miriam Scott

21 Nov 2024

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This week's episode is a discussion of the Australian Parliamentary report on AI in Education, "Studdy Buddy or Influencer?". The report highlights bo...

Deception and Deepfakes - News & Research

15 Nov 2024

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Another News & Research episode this week, and lots of interesting links and research discussed. Here's the weblinks for everything! News Deception an...

AI for AussieEd week, with Toddle

07 Nov 2024

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In September, the Toddle team organised "AI for AussieEd", a week-long series of professional development sessions for teachers, which had thousands ...

Research - How are students using AI

31 Oct 2024

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This week's episode has a lot more news than research. But the research that we spend a bit of time on is the insights on how students in Australian u...

Anna Denejkina - Insight Centre

24 Oct 2024

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Series 10, Episode 3 This week's episode is an interview with Dr Anna Denejkina, who's an interdisciplinary researcher and Associate Director at The ...

AI Research - Apostles, Agnostics and Atheists

17 Oct 2024

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This week we cover a range of AI in Education related news and academic research papers. Here's all the links you need to read more about each of the ...

AI robots taking podcasters' jobs?

11 Oct 2024

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Welcome to the first Episode of Series 10, where we are going to take some time to review some of the fundamental changes we're going to be seeing as ...

South Australia's EdChat - One Giant leap for AI in Australia

03 Oct 2024

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This week we're joined by the brains behind South Australia's EdChat chatbot. It was the first state in Australia to start pilot a custom built genera...

Happy 5th Anniversary to AI in Education

26 Sep 2024

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Unbelievably, it's our 5th Anniversary (AI-nniversary?) and to mark the milestone of an AI podcast that's had more pivots than a robot's legs, and mor...

More Comp Sci research! News and Research - Episode 10 of Series 9

20 Sep 2024

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News This week's news we rushed through includes "Study Buddy or Influencer?", the Australian Parliamentary Inquiry into the use of Gen AI in the Aust...

Assessment and Swiss Cheese - Phill Dawson - Episode 9 of Series 9

12 Sep 2024

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This week's guest is Professor Phillip Dawson, who is Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning at Deakin University i...

Research - Homework and Sex

05 Sep 2024

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Series 9, Episode 9 - Homework and Sex   News How do people actually use ChatGPT? How do people use ChatGPT? We analyzed real AI chatbot conversat...

Series 9 Episode 7 - Rose Luckin - Satnav for the mind?

29 Aug 2024

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This week we hear from Professor Rose Luckin, from University College London and Educate Ventures Research  In the podcast, Rose mentioned the 1% pro...

Series 9 Episode 6 - News and Research - Academic Integrity again...

22 Aug 2024

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News   TEQSA's new paper on Academic Integrity & AI The evolving risk to academic integrity posed by generative artificial intelligence: Options ...

From Pod to Stage - Where to Find Dan and Ray Next

17 Aug 2024

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BONUS EPISODE ! We'd love to meet more of our listeners in person, so here's a list of events over the next few weeks when Dan, Ray, or Dan and Ray a...

From Burnout to Breakthrough: Amanda Bickerstaff on AI's Role in Education

15 Aug 2024

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In this episode of the AI in Education podcast, hosts Dan and Ray welcome Amanda Bickerstaff, an experienced educator, keynote speaker, researcher, an...

"AI Is Here to Help, Not to Replace Anybody" says Researcher - Series 9 Episode 3

08 Aug 2024

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Holy smokes, we missed the party that should have been Episode 100! So now we're going to have a belated party episode later. Oh well, this week's epi...

Anthony England - Building a Community of Learning Series 9 Episode 2

01 Aug 2024

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This episode of the AI in Education podcast features an interview with Anthony England, the Director of Innovative Learning Technologies at Pymble Lad...

The Search for the Education Holy Grail in NSW - Series 9 Episode 1

25 Jul 2024

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In this episode Dan and Ray speak to Michelle Michael and Dan Hart from the New South Wales Department of Education about their world leading trial of...

From AI Detectors to Heartwarming Help: Two Tales of AI in a school

18 Jul 2024

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From AI Detectors to Heartwarming Help: Two Tales of AI in a school Series 8 Episode 11  In this episode of the AI in Education podcast, hosts Ray Fl...

The Turing Test - News and Research

11 Jul 2024

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Another episode rounding up the latest news and research on AI in Education. The links below go straight to all the news stories and research papers ...

Dan Ingvarson - Unpacking AI's Role in Modern Education and Assessment

04 Jul 2024

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Continuing our Series 8, focused on the topic of assessment, and the impact of AI, roving reporter Ray visits Fitzroy, Victoria, to interview Dan Ing...

Chicken Little's News and Research

27 Jun 2024

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Content warning! This episode talks about an academic research paper titled "ChatGPT is bulls**t", and we've not edited the word out - in fact, we've ...

Assessment with Leon Furze

20 Jun 2024

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Wow, this week we have a bumper episode with more resources than a GPT factory!  Any time we get a guest making their second appearance, and therefo...

Research Roundup - 14th June

13 Jun 2024

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This week we set the episode timer for 15 minutes, and managed to get through just five papers before the buzzer went off! So we have plenty more pape...

Chris Goodall - Assessment, personalisation and chainsaws

05 Jun 2024

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Assessment - Chris Goodall In this episode of the AI Education Podcast, host Dan converses with Chris Goodall, the head of digital education at the Bo...

Research Update - 31st May 2024

30 May 2024

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Research Update - 31st May 2024 Honestly folks, we've been trying to keep. We really have. But we have so much great content in the fortnightly (or i...

Jason Lodge - Guiding Through Assessments

23 May 2024

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This week we continue our series on Assessment and AI. Ray talks with Jason Lodge from The University of Queensland, and who must have the longest bu...

University of Sydney and the future of assessment

09 May 2024

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AI and the Future of Assessment: Transforming Educational Practices Episode Overview: In this episode of the AI Education Podcast, hosts Dan and Ray, ...

Series 8 opener - Assessment

25 Apr 2024

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It's time to start a new series, so welcome to Series 8! This episode is the warm up into the series that's going to be focused on Assessment. We'll i...

News & Research Roundup 28 March

27 Mar 2024

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The season-ending episode for Series 7, this is the fifteenth in the series that started on 1st November last year with the "Regeneration: Human Centr...

The University of Sydney's Cogniti AI bot

14 Mar 2024

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This week we talked with Professor Danny Liu and Dr Joanne Hinitt, of The University of Sydney, about the Cogniti AI service that's been created in th...

March News and Research Roundup

01 Mar 2024

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It's a News and Research Episode this week    There has been a lot of AI news and AI research that's related to education since our last Rapid Ru...

Is AI the saviour of teaching? Leanne Cameron's perspective on AI across the teaching profession

16 Feb 2024

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This week's episode is our final interview recorded at the AI in Education Conference at Western Sydney University at the end of last year. Over the l...

News Rapid Rundown - December and January's AI news

02 Feb 2024

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This week's episode is an absolute bumper edition. We paused our Rapid Rundown of the news and research in AI for the Australian summer holidays - and...

The Impact of AI in Higher Education: Interviews

25 Jan 2024

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In this second episode of 2024, we bring you excerpts from interviews conducted at the AI in education conference at Western Sydney University in late...

Education, Data, and Generative AI - A Futurist Perspective with Kate Carruthers

18 Jan 2024

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The podcast was a special dual-production episode between the AI and Education podcast, and the Data Revolution podcast, welcoming Ray Fleming and Ka...

Joe Dale - the ultimate Christmas AI gift list

21 Dec 2023

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Our final episode for 2024 is an absolutely fabulous Christmas gift, full of a lots of presents in the form of different AI tips and services  Joe Da...

Revolutionising Classrooms: Inside the New Australian AI Frameworks with their Creators

14 Dec 2023

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In todays epsiode, Inside the New Australian AI Frameworks with their Creators, we speak to Andrew Smith of ESA and AI guru Leon Furze.   This shoul...

Matt Esterman at the AI in Education Conference

06 Dec 2023

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Matt Esterman is Director of Innovation & Partnerships, and history teacher, at Our Lady of Mercy College Parramatta. An educational leader who's maki...

Another Rapid Rundown - news and research on AI in Education

01 Dec 2023

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Academic Research   Researchers Use GPT-4 To Generate Feedback on Scientific Manuscripts https://hai.stanford.edu/news/researchers-use-gpt-4-gen...

Am-AI-zing Educator Interviews from Sydney's AI in Education Conference

24 Nov 2023

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This episode is one to listen to and treasure - and certainly bookmark to share with colleagues now and in the future. No matter where you are on your...

Rapid Rundown - Another gigantic news week for AI in Education

19 Nov 2023

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Rapid Rundown - Series 7 Episode 3 All the key news since our episode on 6th November - including new research on AI in education, and a big tech new...

Rapid Rundown : A summary of the week of AI in education and research

10 Nov 2023

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This week's episode was our new format shortcast - a rapid rundown of some of the news about AI in Education. And it was a hectic week! Here's the li...

Regeneration: Human Centred Educational AI

01 Nov 2023

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After 72 episodes, and six series, we've some exciting news. The AI in Education podcast is returning to its roots - with the original co-hosts Dan B...

Dr Nick Jackson - Student agency: Into my 'AI'rms

19 Sep 2023

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In this episode Dr Nick Jackson, expert educator and leader of student agency globally discusses his thoughts on AI, assessment and Leeds United.   ...

AI - The fuel that drives insight in K12 with Travis Smith

11 Aug 2023

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In this Epsiode Dan talks to Travis Smith about many aspects of Generative AI and Data in Education.   Is AI the fuel that drives insight? Can we re...

What just happened?

28 Jul 2023

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To kick off series 6, Dan interviews Ray Fleming about 'What just happened?' in terms of the landing on Generative AI and ChatGPT into society.  We l...

Christmas, Infinite Monkeys and everything

21 Dec 2022

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Welcome to this week's episode of the podcast! We have a special guest – Ray Fleming, a podcast pioneer, educationalist, and improv master. Join Dan...

Sustainability and the Future

12 Dec 2022

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Welcome to the AI podcast! In this episode, Beth, Dan, and Lee are joined by the Microsoft ANZ Sustainability lead, Brett Shoemaker. This episode disc...

Hacking for good: ideas and tips

07 Nov 2022

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In this espisode Beth, Lee and Dan look at the mechanics of a creating hackathons based on our experiences on various projects around ethical and hack...

Mastery and lifelong learning moving Beyond ATAR

04 Oct 2022

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In this episode Beth, Dan and Lee and joined by Jan Owen AO.   We discuss growing leadership from toads, skills and policy changes to drive future a...