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EPISODE · May 6, 2026 · 35 MIN

When teachers become co-architects of AI

from Education Futures

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-allWe explore:How GeoGebra scaled to 500M+ users with no ads, no data collection, and a mission-driven business modelWhy Teach for All's 2-year fellowship model is more relevant than ever in the AI eraWhat the AI Literacy and Creator Collective actually looks like in practice — and why it rejects the traditional top-down training modelWhy working exclusively with free AI models is central to ensuring equity and scale across 60+ countriesWhether our guest is, at heart, an optimist about AI's impact on children's ability to learn and think

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