Ed3 Podcast

The average 12-year-old is playing tennis and hanging out with friends. Kaz Keller is doing those things but is also building a thriving AI education business. Keller hosts workshops, training everyone from 12-year-old peers to 90-year-old community members on how to use AI. In this interview, we learn how Kaz teaches AI, why he thinks AI is powerful and should be taught in schools, his newfound a...

Special guest Len Loving joins hosts Serj and Scott to dive into the fascinating world of AI in education. With backgrounds from Japan, the UK, and the US, the conversation explores the cultural context surrounding the use of AI in education. They discuss the transformative potential of AI, debunk misconceptions about its role in replacing educators, and highlight how AI can enhance teaching pract...

Hope Paterson is a transformational coach and advocate for change in education. Her passion for connecting people and fostering a culture of creativity and inspiration shines through in this episode as she shares her insights and experiences. Hope discusses the daring pivots that she believes the education industry needs to make, emphasizing the importance of thinking differently and having the co...

In this week of Ed3: Unplugged, Serj Hunt and Scott Meyer discuss the role of AI in education and how it can help teachers become builders. We explore the four identities of a teacher, beginning with a reporter who regurgitates information and ending with a role model who competes with AI-powered chatbots that can teach students on their own. We then dive into tools for teachers to use AI to impro...

Dr. Sabba Quidwai sparks innovation by building empathy. Her work as an educator, podcaster, and even educational movie star has helped schools build trust and reimagine what education can be. In this episode, she reminds us that we have the agency to create the future, and it starts with asking ourselves who we want to be. We explore how educators can balance the macro and micro worlds of technol...

According to  McKinsey , nearly 40% of Americans identify as independent workers, up from just 27% seven years ago. In the future, more of the labor market will focus on fractionalized small bounties that freelancers can pick up and complete. This week's episode of Ed3: Unplugged discusses the future of work and education, focusing on fractional talent and fractional talent marketplaces. Serj...

This lively Ed3: Unplugged discussion explores the concepts of attribution in an age when answers are everywhere. Serj Hunt joins Scott Meyer to look at how teachers could train AI models and sell those models to other teachers. We talk about project-based learning and how to map those efforts to jobs. Then, we look at how technology might close the loop on identifying what to learn and getting cr...

What skills are needed for the future? In this Ed3: Unplugged, Serj Hunt argues it is a moving target, but key skills like adaptability and agency will be needed regardless of technological change. Scott Meyer and Hunt discuss algorithmic thinking and compare it to other frameworks like systems thinking. It is possible that the ability to communicate with machines will (or is) a key skill. It will...

Personalized AI tutors can scale one-to-one tutoring. This new technology could boomerang education back to the Aristotelian model, not seen since the Industrial Age of education. In this conversation, I sit down with the founders of Bloom: https://bloombot.ai/ Bloom is an AI reading companion created by Courtland Leer, Thomas Howell, and Vince Trost. They are working to build the future of adapti...

Ed3: Gathering curates live events exploring the future of learning. In this episode, we bring the Ed 3.0 discussion from March 23rd, 2023. The guests discuss how schools can implement AI into their curriculum mindfully and ethically. They emphasize the importance of considering AI's practical and ethical implications in education, including the risk of diminishing human capacity and offloadin...

How do you design personalized learning experiences that are dynamic and adaptive? Serj Hunt and Scott Meyer dive into that and other big questions facing educators in the Age of Intelligence. The podcast discusses the growing trend of alternative education, the role of technology, specifically AI, in shaping the future of learning, and the launch of Hunt's startup: City as a School . Watch th...

While AI provides new potential, a challenge is integration. How do schools innovate and integrate these tools? In this podcast, Scott Meyer and Serj Hunt discuss the need for culture design in education to enable schools to adopt new technologies such as AI. The conversation highlights the importance of public collaboration, sharing, and learning to create a rich and diverse ecosystem of innovati...

Ed3 is going unplugged! With the fast pace of change, we're excited to start weekly unscripted conversations between Serj Hunt and Scott Meyer on the latest educational changes. This will bring a conversational approach to the emerging trends we are seeing in education. In this episode, we explore the explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) tools announced this week - like GPT-4 and Midjourney 5...

Tatiana Torres is an entrepreneurial educator, exploring and bringing the latest technologies into the classroom. She has used TikTok, NFTs, digital badges, and AI for education.  From her home in Peru, she is working to help other educators see themselves as learners who can experiment and share new technology with their classes, no matter where they are.   This warm-hearted conversatio...

Learning ecosystems are networks of learning resources that can be adapted around a specific learner's needs or interests. Serj Hunt is working to develop these ecosystems with City as a School . In this podcast, Hunt argues that schools and teachers are asked to be everything to everyone: counselors, career advisors, mentors helping teens go through puberty, and educators working on getting stude...

Colin Reynolds is a former teacher now working to build accessible learner records. In his position at the Education Design Lab, he is leading a collaborative project with the US Chamber of Commerce to accelerate the adoption of learner employment records using AI. In this conversation, we remember our early days in radio in the Upper Midwest before diving into how digital records can actually imp...

Teachers and curriculum designers spend a significant amount of time understanding a concept. Then, they spend more time creating curricula, projects, and exercises based on that material. What if that work could be done in minutes? What if learners could immediately have flashcards to review key concepts and terms? Nolej AI makes this possible. In this episode, we welcome Bodo Hoenen, the first-e...

Verifiable credentials are a data type, often thought of as a digital version of credentials we use in the physical world, like diplomas, driver's licenses, professional certifications, etc.  Evin McMullen of Disco.xyz is on a mission to change that. She is unlocking the personalized web by creating digital backpacks. In everyone's backpack, we have verifiable credentials that share our likes...

In the echo of the FTX collapse, how we talk about web3 will forever change. Blockchain tech is perfect for credentials, as long as no one knows. In this audio essay kicking off season 2, we talk about how web3 as we previously understood it is dead, and how new iterations of web3 are now ready to emerge.

The airdropped university creates competition for existing education institutions by using public information from on-chain credentials.  This concept seems particularly relevant this week, as the University of Nicosia announced the first 100% on-chain course with over 10,000 students minting the token for access.  This episode revisits "The Airdropped University", an essay written in Ja...

Greg Nadeau is the Mr. Rogers of the Ed 3.0 community, welcoming new members and diverse stakeholders working to build the future of an interoperable education credential. In this conversation we discuss the Academic Genome Project. This project looks to build future of the credential where individual Learner Employment Records - or LERs - enables mobility and unlocks opportunity across geography,...

Educators often talk about pathways - an attempt to map all the concepts a student should learn, all the experiences teachers hope they will have. The guest on this episode of the Ed3 Podcast reimagines this concept in a way that fits our data-filled world. Bodo Hoenen is building the Proof of Learning Protocol (PoLP), a technology that helps students discover ideas, validate learning, and unlock...

The Internet personalized the world we live in. Education is going through the same evolution with Ed3. In this episode, learn about this evolution and how you can get involved.  This audio essay is based on the original article written by myself, Scott Meyer . You can read the original article here ( https://www.ed3.gg/writing/ed1toed3/ ), which includes all the links to the articles, whitep...

The most important voice for digital equity that you don't know is Beth Havinga. She stands at the center of policy, capacity building and AI, working to build solutions that promote digital equity now and 10+ years down the road. As she notes, there are three levels of digital equity challenges: Access - In a digital world, students need digital access. As COVID showed, this was far more difficul...

DAOs could be the future of educational institutions, or at least a new way to scale their reach and depth. In this episode, learn how DAOs, or decentralized autonomous organizations, can decentralize and personalize learning. We will focus on how DAOs can be hubs for learning, networking, socializing, and yes, even dating. This audio essay is based on the original article written by Vriti Saraf a...