Margin of Thought with Priten

About Margin of Thought with Priten

Margin of Thought is a podcast about the questions we don’t always make time for but should. Hosted by Priten Soundar-Shah, the show features wide-ranging conversations with educators, civic leaders, technologists, academics, and students. Each season centers on a key tension in modern life that affects how we raise and educate our children. Learn more about Priten and his upcoming book, Ethical Ed Tech: How Educators Can Lead on AI & K-12 at priten.org and ethicaledtech.org.

Publisher

Priten Soundar-Shah

Category

education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Feb 2026

Latest episode

11 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

12 of 36 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   11 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   What Do Children Learn from Violent Media? - Brad Bushman

   Host Priten interviews Professor Brad Bushman about how children learn from violent media and the implications for AI and robots, offering insights into parental mediation and media's role in aggression.

2. 

   4 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Should We Rethink the Liberal Arts in the Age of AI? - Anand Rao

   Host Priten interviews Anand Rao, director of the Center for AI in the Liberal Arts, about how higher education must adapt and lead AI development to preserve essential skills and foster civic discourse.

3. 

   28 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   If AI Writes, Who Thinks? - Jane Rosenzweig

   Host Priten interviews Jane Rosenzweig, Director of the Harvard College Writing Center, exploring how writing is inseparable from thinking and the risks of AI in education.

Inside a recent episode

What Do Children Learn from Violent Media? - Brad Bushman

Published 11 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And I'm curious, what should we be looking out for in those spaces? Yeah, it's super hard being a parent, you know, and there's different ways, you know, I'm not an expert on this, but I have colleagues who are, and there are different forms of mediation that parents can use. One is called restrictive mediation, where parents restrict certain content, and you can do that by using, like on your computer, blocking software to block certain kinds of content or you can do that on your TV as well to block TV programs with certain ratings or movies with certain ratings like age inappropriate ratings if your child is under age 13 for example you might block any program rated TV 13 or above or movies rated PG 13 or R. […]

Who has been a guest on Margin of Thought with Priten

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• Brad Bushman
• Anand Rao
• Jane Rosenzweig
• Tiffany Brown
• Cody Venzke

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5.0 / 5

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