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

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Part of it is making sure teachers are using AI tools in a way that is safe in terms of protecting their students' data and their organization's data. I think this is oftentimes overlooked, but the reason why a lot of superintendents, directors of technology don't want to just green-light AI use at their districts is they're worried about teachers uploading sensitive information to these chatbots, whether it be ChatGPT or Claude or some other tool where, you know, the terms of service or privacy policy aren't as aligned with the district standards.

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Absolutely. So yeah, great to be back on the podcast, Ben. As you know, we launched Flint in May of twenty twenty-three. I like to say that we're old in AI years. We launched just a few months after ChatGPT came out, and we have been heads down for the last three and a half years building a platform for schools. We're really proud of what we've built, but what we're launching today is actually separate to that. We're launching a free AI literacy course for teachers. We made a first version, like an MVP of this a year ago. It was literally me in my apartment just recording with a camera. And this new version, really excited to share more about it, is a lot better, a lot more comprehensive, leverages everything we've learned from the last year of giving out this course, and we think is the right step for most schools trying to figure out what they're doing before they go out and just buy another tool.

Yeah. So we hear a lot about AI literacy and the need for students. You went after teachers. Why is this such an important moment for teachers to become AI literate?

Absolutely. So when most teachers think of AI in their classrooms, their concerns are largely where they