AI for Educators Daily with Dan Fitzpatrick

Send us Fan Mail As AI automates more tasks, employers like Anthropic now actively seek recruits with excellent emotional intelligence and people skills. In this episode: Anthropic's co-founder states that as AI advances, "excellent emotional intelligence and people skills" are becoming crucial for employment, highlighting the need for an emotional intelligence curriculum in schools...

Send us Fan Mail An AI system built software in 14 hours for $251, a task normally taking a human team months. This is AI agents in education. In this episode: An AI system, Opus 4.7, accomplished a complex software development task in 14 hours that typically requires human teams months, showcasing dramatic AI capability gains. The way we interact with AI is evolving from co-intelligence chatbots...

Send us Fan Mail Only 2% of secondary schools in England have a comprehensive AI strategy, despite AI already being embedded in teaching and learning. In this episode: A new report reveals only 2% of secondary schools in England have a comprehensive AI strategy, despite widespread informal adoption for tasks like lesson planning. The primary barrier to implementing AI strategy schools England is a...

Send us Fan Mail The most capable AI model ever released was shut down by the US government then returned, a wild saga with vital lessons for AI policy for schools. In this episode: Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, the "most capable AI model ever released," experienced a rapid launch, government-mandated shutdown, and return, offering a blueprint for future AI model reliability challenge...

Send us Fan Mail An AI tutor in Sierra Leone reportedly helped students gain a year of schooling in eight weeks, a claim even Google DeepMind cautions us to take with a grain of salt. In this episode: Google DeepMind's AI tutor education trial in Sierra Leone estimated students gained a year's learning in eight weeks, using a re-engineered Gemini model. The AI learning tool, Guided Learn...

Send us Fan Mail 70% of people can't spot AI deepfakes, leaving students vulnerable to hidden AI in advertising without proper AI literacy. In this episode: A *Guardian* investigation revealed that 70% of people cannot detect *AI deepfakes*, making students vulnerable to hidden *AI in advertising*. Brands like *Once* and *Maket* are using undisclosed *AI generated content* and *AI-generated i...

Send us Fan Mail Almost 30% of Saudi teachers already correct biased AI outputs, highlighting an urgent need for students to interrogate AI, not just trust it. In this episode: A 2025 Saudi Arabia survey found nearly 30% of teachers are already correcting AI bias in education, highlighting an urgent need for students to interrogate AI. The core issue: most AI tools are trained on English-language...

Send us Fan Mail 94% of students used AI in assessed work by 2026; learn why AI weakens core knowledge vital for genuine oracy. In this episode: A 2026 Higher Education Policy Institute survey revealed 94% of students used AI in assessed work, necessitating a renewed focus on oral communication education. Bruce Hood argues that AI, while not directly harming oracy, weakens the core knowledge and s...

Send us Fan Mail An AI maths tutor on WhatsApp boosts learning a year for $5/child, proving AI for underserved classrooms doesn't need fast internet or expensive tech. In this episode: An AI maths tutor named Rori on WhatsApp is achieving a year of learning gains for just $5 per child, demonstrating powerful AI for underserved classrooms without needing fast internet. Solutions like FoondaMat...

Send us Fan Mail Google just announced its biggest wave of AI updates for Google Classroom yet, pulling Gemini, NotebookLM and Chromebooks into one connected learning ecosystem. But does it actually help teachers lead learning, or just add another layer of tech to manage? I break down the 10 updates that matter for you and your students, what each one actually does, and my honest verdict on the on...

Send us Fan Mail 47% of US students considered changing their major due to AI's job market impact, revealing rational AI education anxiety. In this episode: A Gallup and Lumina Foundation survey found 47% of US students considered changing their major due to AI education anxiety, highlighting a rational fear. Educators must shift from 'transmission of knowledge' to building 'de...

Send us Fan Mail Jeff Bezos says AI won't replace jobs but cause a labor shortage, demanding new skills and radically reshaping AI job creation education. In this episode: Jeff Bezos predicts AI will lead to a labor shortage, not job replacement, profoundly impacting AI job creation education. AI's expansion into physical manufacturing and human-robot interaction demands new AI skills fo...

Send us Fan Mail Israel is launching AI English language learning for middle schoolers to combat a 40% English teacher shortage, but pilot data is still pending. In this episode: Israel is rolling out AI English language learning across middle schools via 'Project 720' and 'English for Everyone' to tackle a 40% English teacher shortage. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Edu...

Send us Fan Mail 96% of older teens use AI weekly for learning, highlighting why an AI literacy framework is crucial for all educators right now. In this episode: A 2025 survey by the European Commission and OECD revealed 96% of older teens use AI for learning weekly, underscoring the urgent need for an AI literacy framework. The AI literacy framework (AILit) from the European Commission and OECD...

Send us Fan Mail Anthropic's new Mythos-class AI, Claude Fable 5, compressed two months of human work into a single day for Stripe. This changes everything for AI in education. In this episode: Anthropic's new Mythos-class AI, Claude Fable 5, achieved a 50-million-line codebase migration for Stripe in one day, a task estimated to take humans two months, signifying a major leap for AI in...

Send us Fan Mail The world's first AI-designed vaccine, whose active ingredient was conceived by machine learning, just passed its initial human safety tests. In this episode: The world's first AI-designed vaccine, developed by the University of Cambridge and DIOSynVax, successfully completed initial human safety trials. This AI in vaccine development focuses on creating "super anti...

Send us Fan Mail An AI tutor helped students get right answers but not grasp core concepts, highlighting how AI in schools can silence productive struggle and deeper learning. In this episode: An observation of seventh-grade math students showed AI tutors in schools can help students get right answers without truly understanding core concepts like fractions, raising concerns about AI for deeper le...

Send us Fan Mail Only four in ten teenagers believe using AI for all homework is cheating, revealing a massive grey area for student perspectives AI. In this episode: A study by Oxford University Press reveals only 44% of students believe using AI for all homework is cheating, highlighting complex student perspectives AI. Despite varied views on AI cheating homework, 72% of students prefer not to...

Send us Fan Mail Highlights - Today we are exploring a new essay by Dario Amodei, the founder of Anthropic, the company behind Claude, which is, without a doubt, one of the most powerful AIs we have in the world right now. - Because in many ways, we're the Hobbits, sometimes, trying to rouse our own Treebeard. - Now, those are global, existential threats, and it might feel a bit dramatic for...

Send us Fan Mail Highlights - Today we are exploring a sentiment that echoes through so much of the current educational discourse: "Artificial intelligence in education is transforming classrooms." This phrase, this idea, you hear it everywhere, in articles, in webinars, in conversations in the staffroom. - The real value, the real transformation, comes when we are intentional about *how...

Send us Fan Mail Find out more Highlights - Today we are exploring a really striking piece of reporting from NPR, by Lee V. - What we’re seeing, and what teachers are intuiting, is that AI fundamentally alters how we process information, how we create, how we learn, and how we assess. - Before, they'd spend hours sifting through websites, trying to summarise and synthesise information. - Teac...

Send us Fan Mail Find out more Highlights - Today we are exploring a headline from the Financial Times that really caught my eye. - It’s because they’re struggling to use AI as a tool to *augment* their own capabilities, to make their human work better, faster, and more insightful. - So, what does this look like in a concrete educational setting? - Maybe it’s using AI to differentiate learning mat...

Send us Fan Mail Highlights - Today we are exploring an article I wrote for Forbes this week, simply titled "Prompt Engineering Isn't Dead, But The Caricature Is." It's a piece where I tried to cut through some of the noise about a topic that's often talked about, but rarely deeply understood. - Early systems, when they first came out, rewarded a kind of incantation. - We&...

Send us Fan Mail Find out more Highlights * Instead of banning AI, leverage it by redesigning assignments, such as coding an adventure game and then using AI to expand its narrative, focusing on student interaction with the tool. * Shift from simply using AI to critically evaluating its outputs; focus professional development on understanding AI's limitations, biases, and ethical implications...

Send us Fan Mail Highlights * Over-reliance on AI can subtly erode an educator's judgment and authenticity, leading to moments of self-doubt even for seasoned professionals who *know* their material is good. * Generative AI's confident fluency can lead students (and educators) to project human intent and authority onto it, making them susceptible to "persuasion-bombing" and out...