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Edtech Insiders

Alex Sarlin and Ben Kornell

At Edtech Insiders, we interview founders, investors, operators, educators, and thought leaders about the future of education technology. You’ll hear from leaders across the education technology industry and learn about all of the important edtech trends happening globally.

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522 episodes

  1. Week in Edtech 10/27/26: Google Faces Congressional Scrutiny, Anthropic's Trillion-Dollar IPO Plans, Activate Learning Acquires Open Up Resources & More! Feat. Chase Rigby of Tassel & Sabih Bin Wasi of Stellic 1:13:27
  2. HigherEd Series: Noah Pickus of Duke University on How Universities Can Innovate Without Losing Their Identity 57:44
  3. HigherEd Series: 130 Years of Tuition-Free College and the Future of Higher Education with Cheryl Nixon of Berea College 51:58
  4. Lin-Manuel Miranda on the Teachers Who Changed His Life 29:49
  5. HigherEd Series: How MIT is Rethinking AI, Assessment, and the Student Experience with Eric Klopfer & Sam Madden 44:46
  6. HigherEd Series: Bryden Sweeney-Taylor of Outer Coast on Building Higher Education From the Ground Up 47:03
  7. HigherEd Series: What Is Higher Education For? with Michael Roth of Wesleyan University 1:04:47
  8. The Wow + The How: Tara Graham of CrunchLabs.org on Reimagining Science Education 54:50
  9. Week in Edtech 10/21/26: ETS Data Breach, ChatGPT Teen Safety, IXL Acquires NoRedInk, AI Policy Shifts, and More! Feat. Mario Vasilescu of Readocracy, Hrag Hamalian of TGR Foundation & Sharon Don of Edtech Insiders 1:43:06
  10. Week in Edtech 10/14/26: New York EDTECH WEEK Takeaways, Students Speak Out on AI, Higher Ed Transformation, and More! Feat. Abhijeet Sethi of LearningMate, Dr. Garikai Campbell of Jaali.ai, Rahim Rajan of AQL Labs & Dr. Lance Ford of Zoom 1:19:38
  11. Who Decides What Kids Learn? with Natasha Singer of The New York Times 41:44
  12. HigherEd Series: Can Apprenticeships Transform Higher Education? with Mallory Dwinal-Palisch of Craft Education 52:53
  13. The Future of Edtech: AI, Interoperability & Trust with Michael Feldstein of 1EdTech 58:20
  14. Week in Edtech 10/7/26: Cambridge’s AI Teaching Report, Brighteye’s New Fund III Strategy & Raspberry Pi’s AI Literacy for All 1:08:09
  15. Celebrating 500 Episodes with Reed Hastings of Netflix 43:01
  16. Why Productive Struggle Matters in AI-Powered Learning with Dacia Toll of Coursemojo 31:34
  17. HigherEd Series: What Should Universities Own in the Age of AI? With George Siemens of Southern New Hampshire University 40:11
  18. How Educators Are Shaping the Future of AI in Education with Google 47:39
  19. Global EdTech Prize Top 10 Finalists on AI, Access & Impact 1:51:26
  20. Week in Edtech 9/23/26: Flint's Teacher AI Literacy with Sohan Choudhury, AskSia’s Global Learning with Celine Xu & 2U’s AI Strategy with Adam Fein 1:02:40
  21. How Microsoft Is Building AI for Learning, Not Just Answers with Deirdre Quarnstrom 57:33
  22. HigherEd Series: Sal Khan on What Higher Education Needs to Change in the AI Era 37:39
  23. Can AI Make Students Better Thinkers? Inside CAiSEY's Voice-First Learning Revolution with Dan Wang & Johanna Chouraqui 50:16
  24. Week in Edtech 9/15/26: Gates Commits $1B to Equitable AI, Low-Tech Tutoring Shows Learning Gains, AI Safety Under Scrutiny, and More! Feat. Dorka Horvath of BOOKR Kids & Nitesh Goel & Zareen Poonen Levien of Padlet 1:28:01
  25. HigherEd Series: From the Brink of Closure to Reinventing Paul Quinn College with Michael Sorrell 47:22
  26. Start With the Problem, Not the AI Tool with Victoria Lansdown of North Star AI Enablement 55:47
  27. AI That Understands Teaching with Brian Johnsrud of OpenAI & Kristin Vincent of Learning Commons 30:08
  28. Week in Edtech 9/9/26: AI Cognitive Offloading, NYC School AI Restrictions, The Tech Backlash, The Paradox of Banning AI, and More! Feat. Shan Reddy & Vivek Vajipey of Aristotle and Dr. Ron Smith of Salesforce 1:24:07
  29. HigherEd Series: What Should Students Learn When AI Can Do the Work? with Nils Gilman of Berggruen Institute 53:16
  30. AI in Action: Emily Freitag of Instruction Partners on What’s Actually Working in Schools 31:50
  31. Building AI-Native Learning for the Future of Work with Vinitra Swamy of Scholé AI 51:58
  32. HigherEd Series: Can AI Help Higher Education Find Its Purpose Again? With Paul LeBlanc of Southern New Hampshire University 52:32
  33. Can AI Actually Teach? Inside Oboe with Nir Zicherman 48:22
  34. Week in Edtech 8/26/26: Federal EdTech Evidence Guidance, AI Backlash in Schools, OpenAI’s 55 District Deals, Harvard AI Faculty Avatars, MIT Rethinks Learning, and More! Feat. Carl Madi of Stepful & Manny Smith of EdVisorly 1:10:40
  35. HigherEd Series: What Would Higher Education Look Like If We Started Over? with Sasha Thackaberry-Voinovich of Newstate University 51:26
  36. Why Leadership Matters More Than Technology with Aneesh Sohoni of Teach For America 20:50
  37. Week in Edtech 8/19/26: ChatGPT for Teens, $265M Reach Capital Fund, The EdTech Backlash, AI’s Competitive Shakeup, and More! Feat. Sabine Wallis, NWEA & Andy Rotherham and Marisa Mission, Bellwether 1:15:47
  38. Why Edtech Needs Less Hype and More Honesty with Tony Wan & Betsy Corcoran 50:53
  39. Week in Edtech 8/12/26: Educator AI Adoption Hits 80%, Varsity Tutors Exits Schools, Higher Ed Rethinks Grading, Open vs. Closed AI, and More! Feat. Reg Leichty of Foresight Law + Policy & Mike Wales and Madison McCormick of CodePath 1:08:39
  40. Inside Reach Capital’s $265M Fund V with Jomayra Herrera 50:04
  41. AI Should Support Teachers, Not Replace Them with Joy Delizo-Osborne of Student Achievement Partners 52:30
  42. Week in Edtech 8/5/26: Higher Ed Leadership Turnover Accelerates, OpenAI Expands Its Education Push, AI “Slop” Floods Teachers Pay Teachers, Students Propose AI Rules, and More! Feat. Janice Jackson of Aspen Institute 58:28
  43. How Boddle Turned Classroom Math into a Game Kids Choose to Play with Edna Martinson 49:49
  44. Week in Edtech 7/29/26: Gates Foundation Shakeup, OpenAI's AI Workforce Push, Y Combinator Backs AI Tutors, Coursera Invests $100M on AI Learning, and More! Feat. Kavitta Ghai of Nectir & Aidan McDowell of UniqLearn 1:33:03
  45. Inside the Inaugural Columbians in EdTech Showcase: Meet the Winners 1:19:34
  46. Claude for Teachers: How Anthropic Is Reimagining AI for Educators with Drew Bent & Sandra Liu Huang 26:53
  47. Student-Centered Learning, AI, and School Redesign with Julie Young of Florida Virtual School 43:41
  48. Week in Edtech 7/15/26: NYC Pauses AI Procurement, Anthropic Launches Claude for Teachers, Norway Restricts AI in Schools, and More! Feat. Louise Baigelman of Storyshares & Ashish Bansal of StarSpark.AI 1:31:00
  49. Why Kids Should Help Design EdTech: Inside the Joan Ganz Cooney Center's Co-Design Movement 48:02
  50. Building an AI Tutor That Gets Students to Think with Sue Khim of Brilliant 40:02