Ed-Technical

About Ed-Technical

Hosted by EdTechnical co-founders Libby Hills (CEO) and Owen Henkel (Research Director), the EdTechnical podcast explores AI in education through a research-grounded lens. Each episode, Libby and Owen ask experts to help educators sift the useful insights from the AI hype. They ask questions like: how does this actually help students and teachers? What do we actually know about this technology, and what is just speculation? And (importantly!) when we say AI, what are we actually talking about? Beyond the podcast, EdTechnical also invests in promising AI edtech companies and conducts applied research to inform real-world product and investment decisions.

Publisher

Owen Henkel & Libby Hills

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Aug 2023

Latest episode

10 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

56 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Sept 2026

   How are teachers using AI?

   In this episode, Libby and Owen speak with Joanna Cannon, senior fellow at the Walton Family Foundation, where she supports a growing body of research on how teachers and students are using AI. Measuring how teachers adopt AI is not straightforward. Joanna says the figures shift depending on what is asked and how AI is defined. The widely reported time savings of using AI come with significant caveats. And although AI can remove certain biases from grading, it introduces fresh risks of its ow...

2. 

   20 Aug 2026

   Notes from the Festival of Learning: The future of AI in education

   In this episode of EdTechnical, Owen reports back from the Festival of Learning in South Korea, the annual gathering that brings together academics in AI, education, learning sciences, and human-computer interaction. Owen takes the pulse of the field through four conversations at the Festival. He speaks with a Cornell professor, a funder at the Gates Foundation, an early-stage startup founder, and a researcher at Google DeepMind. The community has stopped asking simply whether generative AI i...

3. 

   30 Jul 2026

   AI Pre-Mortem: Getting Ahead of AI's Risks in Education

   In this episode of EdTechnical, Libby and Owen speak with Rebecca Winthrop, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where she directs the Center for Universal Education. Rebecca and her team recently ran a ‘pre-mortem’ on generative AI in education: rather than waiting years for the evidence to settle, they conducted a yearlong study on the risks it poses to students, and what we can do now to prevent them while making the most of the benefits. Drawing on focus groups, a thorough review o...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

93

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

21 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 35 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

17

Social presence

0

YouTube

65

Engagement

68

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