Early Education in the Age of AI
by Jodie Clarke - The Empowered Educator
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Episode 56 _ What 30 Years in ECEC Taught Me About Child Observations
Aug 27, 2026
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EP 55 | When an Activity Doesn’t Engage - How AI Can Help
Aug 21, 2026
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EP 54 | Make Your Own Printables With AI : 4 Easy Ideas
Aug 14, 2026
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EP 53 | Stop Asking AI for Activity Ideas & Do This Instead
Aug 3, 2026
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EP 52 | The 5-Minute AI Readiness Test for Your ECE Team
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| 8/27/26 |  Episode 56 _ What 30 Years in ECEC Taught Me About Child Observations | 🟢 A painted handprint can look ordinary. But when a child who usually avoids paint on their skin chooses to make one, wash their hands and then return to make another, the real story is not the handprint. It is the change that an educator who knows that child can recognise.In this episode, Jodie shares five small moments from more than 30 years experience across long day care, community preschool, family day care, occasional care, in-home care and OSHC. Together, they show what experienced observation looks like and why AI can help with writing the words only after an educator has understood the significance of the moment.You’ll Hear How To:✅ Recognise a meaningful change behind an ordinary activity✅ Read noise, pace, movement and group dynamics as part of the observation✅ Decide when stepping back gives a child room to make their next move✅ Use family conversations to understand new play without jumping to conclusions✅ Keep observation rosters from becoming the reason an observation exists✅ Place AI later in the workflow, after presence, context and the educator's decision✅ Check AI-assisted wording with the 3-Question Quality Check✅ Jodie also shares three private sentence starters to help you notice the ‘behind the scenes’ knowledge you already hold about a child.🖐️ Open the Episode 56 Resource Page Here For more practical conversations about where AI can help and where educator knowledge comes first, follow Early Education in the Age of AI and visit The Empowered Educator online.💬 Let’s Connect!If you found this episode helpful, please share it with a fellow educator...💻 Not sure how AI can support you in your role? Discover what’s possible with the interactive guide... HERE on the FREE AI Resource Page🎧 Subscribe & leave a review so we can reach more educators looking to save time with AI📲 Follow me HERE on LinkedIn for more AI tips & timesavers and leadership strategies📍Follow me on HERE on Pinterest for play ideas and environment inspiration🔔 New episodes drop every Friday! See you next time as we continue learning about creative ways to use AI in early childhood education - ethically, practically, and with confidence. #aiforeducators #earlylearning #aiineducation #aiempowerededucators #edtech #aiforteachers #earlyeducationintheageofai #empowerededucator #ECEC #eylf #earlychildhoodeducation | — | ||||||
| 8/21/26 |  EP 55 | When an Activity Doesn’t Engage - How AI Can Help | 🟢 You’ve prepared the natural materials, arranged the invitation to play and pictured the learning that might follow. Then the children walked straight past it. Ever experienced that moment?That table no one is engaging with is not a verdict on your planning. It’s useful information, especially when you pause long enough to notice what the children chose instead.In this episode, I share a practical way to reflect on an activity, play invitation or part of the environment that didn't engage children as you expected. I’ll walk you through a fictional preschool example, my own story about handmade paint stampers from a TAFE prac day, and AI prompts you can copy that help you consider possibilities and reflect on practise without needing to invent explanations about children.🟢 You’ll Find Out How To:✨ Separate what you planned from what you actually observed✨ Notice when a conclusion such as “they were bored” has slipped into the evidence✨ Ask what the children chose instead before replacing an activity✨ Give an AI tool enough context without including identifying information about a child✨ Request possible interpretations, evidence to watch for and one small test✨ Check whether an AI suggestion fits the children, room and practical conditions✨ Avoid confident child explanations, extra adult direction and unnecessary shopping lists✨ Apply the 3-Question Quality Check to any AI-assisted reflection🟢 Resources Mentioned🔗 AI Empowered Educators Membership Info Page : https://www.theempowerededucatoronline.com/ai-membership-gold-registration/🔗 Episode 55 resource page and copyable reflection prompts: https://theempowerededucatoronline.com/2026/08/when-children-ignore-an-activity.html/🔗 Episode 53, Stop Asking AI for 10 Activity Ideas - Do This Instead: https://theempowerededucatoronline.com/2026/08/better-ai-prompts-early-childhood-activity-ideas.html/🔗 Episode 54, Make Your Own Printables With AI: 4 Free Resource Ideas: https://theempowerededucatoronline.com/2026/08/make-printables-with-ai-educators.html/💬 Let’s Connect!If you found this episode helpful, please share it with a fellow educator...💻 Not sure how AI can support you in your role? Discover what’s possible with the interactive guide... HERE on the FREE AI Resource Page🎧 Subscribe & leave a review so we can reach more educators looking to save time with AI📲 Follow me HERE on LinkedIn for more AI tips & timesavers and leadership strategies📍Follow me on HERE on Pinterest for play ideas and environment inspiration🔔 New episodes drop every Friday! See you next time as we continue learning about creative ways to use AI in early childhood education - ethically, practically, and with confidence. #aiforeducators #earlylearning #aiineducation #aiempowerededucators #edtech #aiforteachers #earlyeducationintheageofai #empowerededucator #ECEC #eylf #earlychildhoodeducation | — | ||||||
| 8/14/26 |  EP 54 | Make Your Own Printables With AI : 4 Easy Ideas | 🟣 Have you ever downloaded a 27-page printable pack when you only needed five little cards?In this episode of Early Education in the Age of AI, I explain how to use free AI tools to make small, practical resources that match a real need you have noticed in your educational setting.You'll hear a step by step walkthrough of four complete examples:A visual arrival routine for a child who loves green tree frogs,Recycling matching cards for a mixed-age family day care groupBlock-area shelf labels in English and home languagesAn original felt-board story set featuring 'Willa Worm'.You'll Find Out:✅ The six essentials that help an AI tool understand the job✅ How to use ChatGPT or Gemini for ideas and image pieces✅ Why Canva is often the better place to add words, labels and translations.Clarify what the updated Regulation 168 and the 2026 device rules mean for images of children, why the interest belongs to the child but the television character belongs to someone else, and the four complete prompts I used to make the examples on the resource page.🟣 Visit the episode resource page HERE for all four copy-ready prompts, visual examples, the interactive Willa Worm felt-board story, Sally's printable arrival story, beginner tool links, current child-image and device guidance.🔗 Links mentioned:Images in ChatGPTChatGPT Free Tier FAQCreate and edit images with Gemini AppsCanva FreeCanva Education eligibilityCanva Templates for EducatorsStaffroom Session A: Digital Technologies, Policy into Practice💬 Let’s Connect!If you found this episode helpful, please share it with a fellow educator...💻 Not sure how AI can support you in your role? Discover what’s possible with the interactive guide... HERE on the FREE AI Resource Page🎧 Subscribe & leave a review so we can reach more educators looking to save time with AI📲 Follow me HERE on LinkedIn for more AI tips & timesavers and leadership strategies📍Follow me on HERE on Pinterest for play ideas and environment inspiration🔔 New episodes drop every Friday! See you next time as we continue learning about creative ways to use AI in early childhood education - ethically, practically, and with confidence. #aiforeducators #earlylearning #aiineducation #aiempowerededucators #edtech #aiforteachers #earlyeducationintheageofai #empowerededucator #ECEC #eylf #earlychildhoodeducation | — | ||||||
| 8/3/26 |  EP 53 | Stop Asking AI for Activity Ideas & Do This Instead | 🟢 “Give me 10 activity ideas for toddlers” feels like a sensible shortcut. Then the AI hands back the same boring list of ideas you could have come up with yourself in a few minutes, with no real connection to your children, your room or why you are planning the experience. That sort of prompt, when given to an AI tool, is the reason so many educators try AI once and decide it is overrated!In Episode 53 of Early Education in the Age of AI, I explain why the problem is usually not a lack of AI creativity. It's instructions with no background information, no observed learning notes and no clear job for the AI assistant to complete for you.If AI is giving you lists of activity ideas you could have found yourself on a 2014 Pinterest board, then this episode gives you a fix to try.Visit the episode resource page here🟢Find Out How To :Recognise the three gaps that appear inside the generic activity-ideas prompt most educators are usingUse the four-part EASE framework step by step to make effective prompting easier;Turn one observation into a more useful forward planning conversation;Ask AI to extend an interest, deepen your thinking or work within real barriers you're facing;Include ratios, materials, space, time, mess and budget in the prompt instructionsCheck quickly whether the answer is accurate, sounds like you and fits this child or group;Keep personal and sensitive information out of public or unapproved AI tools;Save useful prompts to reuse over and over again with a simple copy and paste.The episode includes a complete before-and-after example walkthrough using all the strategies shared so you can visualise it in action. I also share a simple ECEC-friendly sentence to add to a prompt when the week is difficult that tells the AI what to drop from your program if the day isn't going as planned!**This episode provides general professional learning. Always use your own common sense and follow your service's approved process, educational philosophy and applicable privacy requirements.💬 Let’s Connect!If you found this episode helpful, please share it with a fellow educator...💻 Not sure how AI can support you in your role? Discover what’s possible with the interactive guide... HERE on the FREE AI Resource Page🎧 Subscribe & leave a review so we can reach more educators looking to save time with AI📲 Follow me HERE on LinkedIn for more AI tips & timesavers and leadership strategies📍Follow me on HERE on Pinterest for play ideas and environment inspiration🔔 New episodes drop every Friday! See you next time as we continue learning about creative ways to use AI in early childhood education - ethically, practically, and with confidence. #aiforeducators #earlylearning #aiineducation #aiempowerededucators #edtech #aiforteachers #earlyeducationintheageofai #empowerededucator #ECEC #eylf #earlychildhoodeducation | — | ||||||
| 7/24/26 |  EP 52 | The 5-Minute AI Readiness Test for Your ECE Team | 🟢 Ask five people on your team whether AI can help write a learning story. Would you hear one shared approach, or five different versions of the rules?In this episode of Early Education in the Age of AI, Jodie gives you a practical five-minute activity for finding the gaps before they become everyday habits. It is not a pass/fail test for educators. It is a quick check of whether your service has made its expectations clear enough to use.You will learn how to:✨ Identify which AI-assisted tasks your service has actually approved;✨ Explain why removing a child’s name may not fully de-identify the information;✨ Make the checking and approval step visible;✨ Respond when AI output is inaccurate, biased or inappropriate;✨ Clarify who approves tools and where educators can find that decision;✨ Sort answers as aligned, partly aligned, or contradictory and unclear;✨ Choose one shared rule instead of trying to write an entire AI policy in one meeting;✨ Adapt the activity for long day care, preschool, family day care and OSHC/OOSH.Jodie also explains why one confident AI champion does not make a whole service AI ready, and why “I don’t know” can be one of the most useful answers a leader receives.🔴 This episode provides general professional learning and is not legal advice. Check your service requirements, approved-provider directions and applicable state or territory guidance.💬 Let’s Connect!If you found this episode helpful, please share it with a fellow educator...💻 Not sure how AI can support you in your role? Discover what’s possible with the interactive guide... HERE on the FREE AI Resource Page🎧 Subscribe & leave a review so we can reach more educators looking to save time with AI📲 Follow me HERE on LinkedIn for more AI tips & timesavers and leadership strategies📍Follow me on HERE on Pinterest for play ideas and environment inspiration🔔 New episodes drop every Friday! See you next time as we continue learning about creative ways to use AI in early childhood education - ethically, practically, and with confidence. #aiforeducators #earlylearning #aiineducation #aiempowerededucators #edtech #aiforteachers #earlyeducationintheageofai #empowerededucator #ECEC #eylf #earlychildhoodeducation | — | ||||||
| 7/10/26 | AI in educationeducator resistance+3 | — | The Empowered Educator | — | AI policyeducator resistance+3 | — | 22m 33s | ||
| 7/3/26 | AI in educationchild safety reforms+5 | — | AI Empowered Educators Membership | — | AIeducation policy+7 | — | 32m 35s | ||
| 6/26/26 | AI in educationcultural planning+3 | — | 50 Years of Deadly | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander | AINAIDOC Week+6 | — | 45m 59s | ||
| 6/12/26 | AI in educationdocumentation apps+4 | — | StoryparkXplor+3 | — | AI toolsdocumentation+3 | — | 52m 03s | ||
| 5/22/26 | AI documentationquality check+3 | — | — | — | AI quality checkeducator documentation+4 | — | 39m 09s | ||
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| 4/22/26 | play-based learningAI in education+3 | — | — | — | play scenarioschild development+3 | — | 38m 57s | ||
| 4/17/26 | learning environmentthird teacher+5 | — | — | — | learning environmentthird teacher+5 | — | 50m 31s | ||
| 4/1/26 | inclusive programmingcultural events+4 | — | — | — | inclusive educationcultural programming+4 | — | 52m 00s | ||
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| 3/20/26 | AI in educationearly childhood education+3 | — | — | — | AIearly childhood education+3 | — | 46m 40s | ||
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| 3/2/26 | Reggio Emilia principlesAI in education+4 | — | Reggio Emilia | — | Reggio EmiliaAI+5 | — | 47m 48s | ||
| 2/18/26 | AI in educationnon-verbal learning+4 | — | The Empowered Educator | — | AI documentationquiet children+5 | — | 46m 00s | ||
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| 12/5/25 | EP 35| What If Your Documentation Could Come Alive? | 🟢 What’s This Episode About?What If Your Documentation Could Come Alive?In this final episode of 2025, Jodie explores a question that's been forming all year: what if the documentation and planning cycle system itself…not just our efficiency within it, is what needs to change? Jodie takes a step back from specific AI tool use cases and prompting to look at the bigger picture. We explore why the "old way" of documenting and planning seems to be broken, why we’re all so tired, and how we’ve been held hostage by 3 "hidden rules" of early childhood admin.She introduces the concept of Living Documentation, an approach that shifts educators from reconstructing meaningful moments from memory to capturing them in real time, from writing documentation from scratch to editing and verifying AI-generated drafts, and from filing isolated observations to building Living Learning Journeys that show children's development over time. This is an invitation into a new conversation that will continue throughout 2026.🟢 What You’ll Find Out:✅ Why the documentation folder shouldn't be a storage bin.✅ Why digital tools haven't solved our burnout (yet).✅ The "Memory Tax" Dilemma - Why reconstructing reality at 8 PM is destroying your energy and enthusiasm.✅ What the ‘Living Documentation Approach’ is✅How this approach looks in reality for Family Day Care, Early Learning Centres, Preschool & Mobile Services✅ The "Living Learning Journey" for children - How patterns emerge without you having to hunt for them.💬 Let’s Connect!If you found this episode helpful, please share it with a fellow educator...💻 Not sure how AI can support you in your role? Discover what’s possible with the interactive guide... HERE on the FREE AI Resource Page🎧 Subscribe & leave a review so we can reach more educators looking to save time with AI📲 Follow me HERE on LinkedIn for more AI tips & timesavers and leadership strategies📍Follow me on HERE on Pinterest for play ideas and environment inspiration🔔 New episodes drop every Friday! See you next time as we continue learning about creative ways to use AI in early childhood education - ethically, practically, and with confidence. #aiforeducators #earlylearning #aiineducation #aiempowerededucators #edtech #aiforteachers #earlyeducationintheageofai #empowerededucator #ECEC #eylf #earlychildhoodeducation | — | ||||||
| 10/25/25 | EP 34| Using AI for End of Year, Child Made Gift Ideas | The end-of-year gift-making rush is a source of huge stress for educators. We're pressured to create perfect, product-focused items, which often goes against our "process-over-product" approach. In this episode you’ll learn how to use AI to simplify end of year activity planning, create inclusive experiences, and (most importantly) write meaningful gift tags that communicate the real learning behind every child-made creation.🟣 What You'll Find Out:✅ How to brainstorm process-based gift ideas (not just product-based ones) ✅ Using AI to create inclusive, step-by-step instructions for all children ✅ The secret to writing meaningful gift tags that link learning to the EYLF ✅ How to adapt activities for sensory needs and varying abilities ✅ Simple prompts to get AI to write your end of year documentation ✅ How AI can help educators handle the tricky "Christmas vs not Christmas" challenge 💻 CLICK HERE TO OPEN THE RESOURCE PAGE FOR THIS EPISODE💬 Let’s Connect!If you found this episode helpful, please share it with a fellow educator...💻 Not sure how AI can support you in your role? Discover what’s possible with the interactive guide... HERE on the FREE AI Resource Page🎧 Subscribe & leave a review so we can reach more educators looking to save time with AI📲 Follow me HERE on LinkedIn for more AI tips & timesavers and leadership strategies📍Follow me on HERE on Pinterest for play ideas and environment inspiration🔔 New episodes drop every Friday! See you next time as we continue learning about creative ways to use AI in early childhood education - ethically, practically, and with confidence. #aiforeducators #earlylearning #aiineducation #aiempowerededucators #edtech #aiforteachers #earlyeducationintheageofai #empowerededucator #ECEC #eylf #earlychildhoodeducation | — | ||||||
| 10/19/25 | EP 33 | How to Use AI for Play-Based Planning | 🟢🟣 This episode is for every educator who has felt the "Sunday afternoon panic" of trying to fill out a weekly program with a balance of play based activities and intentional teaching. I’m taking you beyond generic planning themes and Pinterest boards to explore how AI can become your "educational thinking partner". You'll learn how to use AI to better understand child-led inquiry , create meaningful provocations , and differentiate your planned experiences without creating unnecessary writing or extra work.🟣 What You'll Find Out:✅ How to stop the Sunday planning panic ✅ Why generic weekly themes can make it harder to see the real learning taking place✅ How to use AI as an "observation detective" to analyse play ✅ Using AI to create 'provocations' that extend thinking ✅ How to differentiate one setup for multi-age groups ✅ Practical AI prompts you can copy and paste into ChatGPT or your preferred AI tool🟣 Resources Mentioned In This EpisodeThe AI Empowered Educators Membership: Explore specialised ECE tools and AI assistants mentioned throughout this episode…Empowered Educator AI Assistants:➡️ Pippa the Planner (inside the Extension Ideas Creator form)➡️ Dottie Documentation & Ellie EYLF➡️ Eden Environments➡️ Maisie Mindful InclusionEmpowered Educator AI Smart Forms:➡️ Extension Ideas Creator➡️ Junk to Gem Idea Generator & Loose Parts Play Spark➡️ Multi-Age Activity Modifier🟣 Visit this episodes resource page HERE for more tips and prompts you can copy💬 Let’s Connect!If you found this episode helpful, please share it with a fellow educator...💻 Not sure how AI can support you in your role? Discover what’s possible with the interactive guide... HERE on the FREE AI Resource Page🎧 Subscribe & leave a review so we can reach more educators looking to save time with AI📲 Follow me HERE on LinkedIn for more AI tips & timesavers and leadership strategies📍Follow me on HERE on Pinterest for play ideas and environment inspiration🔔 New episodes drop every Friday! See you next time as we continue learning about creative ways to use AI in early childhood education - ethically, practically, and with confidence. #aiforeducators #earlylearning #aiineducation #aiempowerededucators #edtech #aiforteachers #earlyeducationintheageofai #empowerededucator #ECEC #eylf #earlychildhoodeducation | — | ||||||
| 10/3/25 | EP 32 | A Guide to Smarter AI Choices for Educators | In This EpisodeIf you've ever felt let down by generic AI responses, this episode is for you. Jodie talks through the common frustration of using one-size-fits-all AI tools and explains a more effective way forward. You'll learn how to see AI not as a single tool, but as a team of specialised assistants. This practical guide will help you choose the right support for any task, turning AI from a source of frustration into a genuinely helpful partner in your ECE role. What You'll Find Out...✅ How to use the C.A.R.E. formula to write better AI prompts ✅ The difference between Generalist, Specialist, and Smartform AI tools ✅ How to decide which type of AI is right for your specific task ✅ Why specialist AI assistants can deepen your pedagogical thinking ✅ How to use all three AI types together to support your EYLF or MTOP planning cycle ✅ The fastest way to get started with AI, even if you feel hesitantResources Mentioned🔎 AI Empowered Educators Membership: Learn more about the specialist assistants and Smartforms mentioned in this episode. Visit the information page here on the website.🔎 Episode 32 Resource Page - See the C.A.R.E prompt formula in action to copy and use🔎 Generalist AI Tools: ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude🔎 Empowered Ed Specialist AI Assistants: Ellie EYLF, Dottie Documentation, Lacey Leadership, Fran FDC🔎 Empowered Ed AI Smartform Tools: Learning Story Observation Writer, Anecdotal Observation Writer, Tricky Conversation Email Drafter, Summative Assessment Writer💬 Let’s Connect!If you found this episode helpful, please share it with a fellow educator...💻 Not sure how AI can support you in your role? Discover what’s possible with the interactive guide... HERE on the FREE AI Resource Page🎧 Subscribe & leave a review so we can reach more educators looking to save time with AI📲 Follow me HERE on LinkedIn for more AI tips & timesavers and leadership strategies📍Follow me on HERE on Pinterest for play ideas and environment inspiration🔔 New episodes drop every Friday! See you next time as we continue learning about creative ways to use AI in early childhood education - ethically, practically, and with confidence. #aiforeducators #earlylearning #aiineducation #aiempowerededucators #edtech #aiforteachers #earlyeducationintheageofai #empowerededucator #ECEC #eylf #earlychildhoodeducation | — | ||||||
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