Week in Edtech 10/7/26: Cambridge’s AI Teaching Report, Brighteye’s New Fund III Strategy & Raspberry Pi’s AI Literacy for All

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Thank you, Ben. It's lovely to be here.

Before we dive in, maybe Evelina, can you just talk a little bit about your journey and how you ended up kind of diving into research and then focusing on language and English learning, and then now with AI. Just tell us how you got here.

I was an international student doing my, my, uh, degrees in the States, and I ended up after that in Cambridge, England, working in research, in teaching and assessment. And I've always been fascinated by new technologies because they don't automatically mean that they're going to make learning better and teachers' jobs better. So AI and gen AI especially are powerful, incredibly sophisticated, exciting technologies, but with massive risks. And that in itself really piqued my interest into getting more involved in that area, both conceptually but also practically working with people like Ana, who do this day in, day out in their classrooms.

Yeah. Awesome. Ana, a form-- I'm a former middle