Sunanna Chand: Teachers matter more than technology

About this episode

Sunanna Chand discusses the importance of focusing on teacher talent over technology in education.

The hardest part of AI in education isn’t picking a tool. It’s deciding what kind of learning we want to protect, elevate, and scale. On this episode of aiEDU Studios, we dive straight into that question with Sunanna Chand, executive director of The Reinvention Lab at Teach For America. Sunanna has a clear stance on edtech: focus on talent over technology. Instead of imagining rows of students plugged into personalized dashboards, she explains how strategic, lightweight AI use can help teache...

People in this episode

Host: aiEDU: The AI Education Project

Guest: Sunanna Chand

Topics covered

• AI in education
• edtech
• teacher talent
• learning strategies
• strategic AI use

Keywords

• AI
• education
• edtech
• teachers
• learning
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Reinvention Lab, Teach For America

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