Conversations with the people shaping how AI enters education.
The Deskpad Interview Series is a set of long conversations with teachers, researchers, and technologists about AI and education. We ask what is really happening in their classrooms and institutions right now, what they think schools are getting wrong, and where they see all of this going over the next few years. New episodes show up here as we record them.
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Episode 02
Richard Kincaid
Assistant State Superintendent, Maryland State Department of Education
Richard is an Assistant State Superintendent at the Maryland State Department of Education, where he works on the state's policies for AI in education. We picked his brain about how Maryland is approaching AI in its schools.
“I think if states are not asking students what their opinions are on AI, and bringing them to the tables where policy is being developed, then they have an incomplete process.”
Richard Kincaid
Episode 01
Rachelle Dené Poth
Teacher of Spanish and emerging technology, Riverview Junior-Senior High School
Rachelle teaches Spanish and emerging technology at Riverview Junior-Senior High School in Pennsylvania. She's written over ten books including How to Teach AI, and she's spent the past year working with district leadership teams across the country on AI policy. She's been teaching AI to high schoolers for eight years, and has spoken at countless EdTech conferences about emerging technologies in the classroom.
“[Students] feel like there's an assumption that just because they have an iPhone or an iPad or some type of device, that they know exactly how to use it.”
Rachelle Dené Poth
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We are always looking for the next conversation. If you work in education, AI, or technology and you have a perspective on where this is going, put your own name forward. If someone came to mind while you were watching, nominate them instead. Same form either way, and it takes about a minute.
