Banning AI? Listening to the Big and Small Voices Reshaping the Future of AI in Education
The back-to-school decision by the New York City Schools to place a moratorium AI, followed by an outright ban on AI by the Los Angeles Unif...
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BAM Radio has compiled the most popular segments, hosted by the Executive Directors of the nation's 14 leading education associations including ; the National Association for the Education o...
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20 of 37 episodesCan We Trust AI Before We Understand It?
How do the complexity of AI and the difficulty of keeping up with the speed of change affect educators’ trust in AI tools? This panel explor...
Building Reading Stamina: Strategies to Help Students Read for 30 Minutes or More
This panel discussion explores the challenges and strategies for building students’ reading endurance across different educational levels. O...
When Five AI Innovators Asked: What Can You Trust and Who Do You Trust with Educational AI?
Discussions about AI in education are moving beyond academic integrity, critical thinking, and the question of whether AI is a gift or a cur...
Can AI Innovators Solve the Trust Problem AI Is Creating?
The conversation around AI in education is changing fast, and the latest GSV Learning and Earning Forecast now identifies trust as the facto...
Expanding Screen Bans in Education: Simple Solution, Complex Problem, A Smarter Path Forward
How could the second-largest school district in the nation believe its decision to ban screens was right when so many educators adamantly be...
Cheating? Forget About It: Asking The Right Questions About Agentic AI In Education
The word is spreading through the education community that a new kind of artificial intelligence enables students to complete an entire cour...
The AI Tech Fatigue of 2025 Was Real: What Educators Are Doing to Regain Control in 2026
The numbers tell the story. For the 2023-24 school year, school districts accessed an average of 2,739 distinct edtech tools annually, an in...
Teaching Practices That Make Learning Stick
The conversation explores cognitive load theory and why it matters for classroom learning, while also widening the focus to include practica...
How AI Slop Is Affecting Students, Educators and the Craft of Teaching Creativity
There is a lot of online talk about the growing scourge of AI-generated content and how it’s affecting our digital lives, both in and out of...
Pedagogical Debt: Why It Matters, Are We Ready To Reduce It, Can Generative AI Help?
We’ve all been there—juggling new tech, new expectations, and wondering if our students are really learning what matters. In this chat, we t...
Educators Feel Free Speech Fallout From Kirk Killing: What’s Appropriate, Who Decides?
Eric Heinze (Maîtrise, Paris; JD, Harvard; Ph.D. Leiden), a former Fulbright, DAAD and Chateaubriand fellow, is Professor of Law and Humanit...
Can AI Solve the Teaching Stress It Creates?
If you’ve ever sighed, “Not another update,” you’re not alone. We explore the stress of tackling steep tech learning curves and then having...
Three Years of Gen AI: The Lessons We’ve Learned, What We Plan to Do Differently As We Head Back to School
In this special episode, the creators of SAMR, TPACK, Triple E, SETI, and GenAI-U reflect on how their views of AI in education have evolved...
Educators Respond to Google’s New AI Push Into Classrooms: Why Some Are Thrilled, While Others See A Troubling Trend
In this conversation, a wide range of voices respond to Google's recent announcement offering over 30 AI tools for free to schools. The crea...
The Seven Seismic Executive Orders Aimed at Reshaping Education Policy and Practice Overnight
The episode of Ed Quake 2025 unpacks a seismic moment in education history: The day seven executive orders about education came crashing dow...
Some Think More With Gen AI, Some Less: Here's What's Behind This Emerging Critical Thinking Divide
This conversation explores new findings on the critical thinking divide fueled by Gen AI, What does this mean for teaching and learning? Thi...
Two Roadmaps For Making Smarter Decisions About Generative AI in 2025?
The entire context of teaching and learning is changing at a speed and magnitude that no one in education has experienced. There’s no simple...
Special Report: How Teachers and Administrators are Handling the New Mass Deportation at Schools Policy
This week, President Trump signed executive orders that profoundly affect teaching and learning. The most immediate involves mass deportatio...
The 12 Indicators to Watch as Teaching and Learning in America Take a Sharp Right Turn
The episode dives into a BRN internal report titled “The 12 Indicators We’re Watching as Teaching and Learning in America Take a Sharp Right...