Amanda Bickerstaff on AI for Education

Key Points

  • AI means a disruption to what school has been for over a hundred years.

  • It’s time for community conversations and it’s so important to include students.

Amanda Bickerstaff AI for Education

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined by Amanda Bickerstaff, the Co-Founder and CEO of AI for Education. Amanda has been involved in 10 edtech and impact startups over the past two decades and continues to drive important work to further teacher learning. 

It’s really hard to have a functioning ecosystem for students if you don’t have a functioning ecosystem for teachers.

Amanda Bickerstaff

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Tom Vander Ark

Tom Vander Ark is the CEO of Getting Smart. He has written or co-authored more than 50 books and papers including Getting Smart, Smart Cities, Smart Parents, Better Together, The Power of Place and Difference Making. He served as a public school superintendent and the first Executive Director of Education for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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1 Comment

Laura Isbell
11/13/2024

What additional resources, OER preferably, are used to outline educational ecosystems to identify opportunities for integrating AI tools in higher education and in the workforce?

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