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Kane from Teachers AI Cafe examines the factors influencing the success or failure of AI in schools, focusing on leadership and pedagogy through Microsoft Copilot case studies.

Kane from Teachers AI Cafe examines why AI works in some schools and fails in others, arguing the difference is leadership, pedagogy, and change management rather than the tool itself. He reviews Microsoft Copilot case studies from England’s Discovery Trust (20 schools) and Brisbane Catholic Education (140 schools), highlighting reduced admin workload, strong training and governance, and classroom uses like differentiated writing scaffolds from student vocabulary, inquiry-question generation,...

People in this episode

Host: Kane Pittard

Topics covered

• AI in education
• leadership
• pedagogy
• change management
• case studies
• admin workload
• classroom applications

Keywords

• AI
• education
• leadership
• Microsoft Copilot
• case studies
• admin workload
• pedagogy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft, Discovery Trust, Brisbane Catholic Education

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