When teachers become co-architects of AI
From Education Futures by Svenia Busson & Laurent Jolie
May 6, 2026 · 36 min · Season 1 · Episode 40
About this episode
This episode discusses the role of teachers in shaping AI technologies in education with guest Stephen Jull.
What if teachers stopped being passive consumers of AI, and started shaping how it's built? In this episode, Svenia Busson sits down with Stephen Jull a true EdTech veteran who started his career teaching in the remote woodlands of Northern Canada, went on to co-found GeoGebra GmbH — the free dynamic mathematics software that reached over 500 million users worldwide — and now leads EdTech and AI strategy at Teach for All , the global 60+ country network founded by Wendy Kopp, who also founded Teach for America over three decades ago. At the heart of this conversation is the AI Literacy and Creator Collective (AI LCC) — a program launched in partnership with Anthropic — that brings together nearly 2,000 educators from across the world to move from being "done to" by AI, to actually co-architecting how frontier models are developed and deployed in classrooms. More about the AI LCC here: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-teach-for-all We explore: How GeoGebra scaled to 500M+ users with no ads, no data collection, and a mission-driven business model Why Teach for All's 2-year fellowship model is more relevant than ever in the AI era What the AI Literacy and Creator Collective…
People in this episode
Host: Svenia Busson
Guest: Stephen Jull
Topics covered
- AI in education
- teacher involvement in AI
- EdTech
- AI Literacy
- global education initiatives
Keywords
- AI Literacy
- EdTech
- GeoGebra
- Teach for All
- AI models
- education equity
- teacher training
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: GeoGebra GmbH, Teach for All, Anthropic
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