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AI in 5: Scaffolding in AI: Building Smarter Learners One Step at a Time (April 27, 2026)
Season 18
Show Notes — "Scaffolding in AI: Building Smarter Learners One Step at a Time"
What if every student had a tutor that knew exactly when to help — and …
18 hours ago
The Friday Download: Embrace the Bots, Ban the Phones: AI Literacy and Classroom Whiplash (April 24, 2026)
Season 18
Schools are trying to navigate a strange new reality: embrace AI, limit phones, and somehow teach students to use powerful tools responsibly. This we…
4 days ago
AI in 5: The Hidden Workload Relief: How AI Preps the Classroom So Teachers Can Teach It (April 20, 2026)
Season 18
Teachers work an average of 49 hours per week — 10 hours above their contracted time — and much of that invisible labor happens before class ever st…
1 week ago
The Friday Download: AI Gold Rush, Sneaker Servers, and the Model Wars Heating Up (April 17, 2026)
Season 18
The Friday Download — April 17, 2026
Show Notes
This week’s Friday Download focuses on the AI stories that actually move the needle. The episode dives …
1 week, 4 days ago
AI in 5: Raise AI-Smart Kids: The Family Literacy Skill That Outsmarts the Algorithm (April 13, 2026)
Season 18
AI is everywhere — in our kids' homework apps, search results, and even their social feeds. But are families actually equipped to navigate it? In thi…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
The Friday Download: AI Broke the Pop Quiz (And Might Save Assessment) (April 10, 2026)
Season 18
The Friday Download — Show Notes "The Robot Wrote My Essay (Or Did It?)"
This week on The Friday Download, JR asks the question that's haunting every …
2 weeks, 4 days ago
AI in 5: The IEP Gets an AI Upgrade: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Special Education for 7.5 Million Students (April 8, 2026)
Season 18
AI isn't just transforming boardrooms and tech hubs — it's showing up in IEP meetings, speech therapy sessions, and adaptive learning platforms for t…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
The Friday Download: From Leaky Bots to Life-Saving Breakthroughs on April 3, 2026
Season 18
This week on The Friday Download, JR digs into the strange, the hopeful, and the “did that really happen?” corners of AI. We start with Anthropic’s r…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
AI in 5: The Lab Assistant That Never Sleeps — How AI Is Rewriting Science, Schools & Your Future (March 30, 2026)
Season 17
What if the next cure for cancer was discovered not by a scientist… but with one? In this episode of AI in 5, Tour Guide JR D breaks down the explosi…
4 weeks ago
The Learning Curve: Part 4 - AI and the Future of Education -- Who Owns Your Child's Data? Inside the AI Ed-Tech Industrial Complex
Season 17 Episode 4
In the finale of The Learning Curve, JR and ARIA zoom out from individual classrooms to ask the questions no one in edtech wants to answer: Who build…
1 month ago