The Teachers AI Café
The Teachers AI Café is a podcast designed for educators eager to harness the power of artificial intelligence in their classrooms. Join us for engaging conversations, practical tips, and real-world examples on how AI can streamline lesson preparation, provide insightful feedback, and foster student skill development. Whether you’re a tech novice or a digital native, this café is your go-to space to learn, share, and revolutionize your teaching with AI.
Episodes
79 episodes
AI Update for Educators 16th May
Kane from Teachers AI Cafe shares an AI update for educators, highlighting OpenAI adding Codex to the ChatGPT mobile app to make AI automation more portable, including voice use via CarPlay. He notes Microsoft Edge now embeds Copilot to interpr...
AI Is Already Changing Careers: How Schools Must Update Pathways, Curriculum & Guidance
Kane from the Teachers AI Cafe argues that AI is already reshaping employment and career planning, yet many schools still treat AI as a classroom tool, a cheating issue, or avoid it altogether. Citing Australian reports, he notes growing worker...
Ai Tech Update for Educators 11th May
Kane returns with the May 11 tech update, apologizes for missing last week due to work, and says a new episode will follow on Wednesday while inviting teachers to share their AI journeys.00:00 Welcome to AI Cafe00:23 Weekly Update...
Ai Tech Update for Educators 4th May
Kane from the Teachers’ AI Cafe shares a weekly AI tech update for educators, noting a shift from which model is “smartest” to how AI is embedded in everyday work. 00:00 Welcome to Teachers AI Cafe00:20 May the Fourth Intro
Ai Tech update for Educators 27th Apr
Kane from the Teacher’s AI Cafe shares a tech update for April 27, 2026, focused on major moves from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic and what they mean for educators.00:00 Channel Welcome00:21 Weekly AI Headlines01:09 OpenAI ...
AI in International Schools: Equity, Assessment, and Teacher Wellbeing with Daniel Budd in Hong Kong
In this Teacher’s AI Cafe episode, Kane interviews his friend Daniel, a Perth-to-Hong Kong educator with a tech and computer science background working at a large American-style international school. Daniel describes how AI disrupted both Engli...
AI Tech update for Educators 20th Apr
Kane from the Teacher’s AI Cafe shares a weekly tech update (Apr 20, 2026) focused on practical AI changes for educators.00:00 Welcome to AI Cafe00:23 Weekly Update Setup01:01 Gemini Meets Notebooks02:41 AI Inside Ch...
Analog-First Teaching, Screen Limits, and Practical AI Use: A Conversation with David Cutler
Host Kane welcomes David, a Boston-based high school history, government, and journalism teacher, to discuss balancing analog learning with technology and AI in the classroom. David says he is pro-learning rather than anti-tech, preferring disc...
Ai Tech update for Educators 13th Apr
Kane welcomes viewers to the Teacher’s AI Cafe and shares classroom-focused AI strategies aimed at reducing workload, improving feedback, and lowering stress. In the April 13 tech update.00:00 Welcome to AI Cafe00:21 Holiday Tech ...
AI Comparison for Teachers: Creating Video Question Sheets with NotebookLM, ChatGPT & Claude
Kane from the Teacher’s AI Cafe live-tests three AI platforms—NotebookLM, ChatGPT, and Claude—to quickly create student question sheets for an 8-minute Imperial War Museum YouTube video on World War I trench warfare.00:00 Welcome to AI ...
Ai Tech Update for Educators 6th Ape
Kane hosts a Teacher’s AI Cafe tech update recorded on 6 April (Easter Monday), noting he nearly missed the episode due to holidays. He shares using ChatGPT in the car via the latest iPhone/CarPlay update for hands-free brainstorming and idea o...
AI in a Remote WA Science School: Beating Workload, Student Cheating & Better Assessments
In this Teacher’s AI Cafe episode, Kane interviews Sri, Head of Science at Karratha Senior High School in country WA, discussing technology use in a remote, diverse mining-town context and recent cyclone concerns. Sri explains how COVID acceler...
AI tech Update for Educators 30th Mar
Kane shares a March 30 AI tech update for educators, noting no major shifts but several important developments.00:00 Channel Welcome00:21 Weekly AI Tech Update00:45 Apple Embraces Multiple Models01:29 AI Reliability ...
Claude vs ChatGPT for Teachers: Live Classroom Resource Tests
Kane compares paid versions of Claude and ChatGPT on practical teacher tasks in a live desktop demo for a podcast and YouTube audience. Using minimal prompting.Youtube version00:00 Claude...
AI tech update for Educators 23rd Mar
Kane from the Teacher’s AI Cafe shares the March 23, 2026 AI update with a focus on practical shifts rather than big launches. 00:00 Welcome to AI Cafe00:21 Weekly AI Update Setup00:35 Claude on Android01:00 Cla...
Ai Tech update for educators 16th Mar
Kane from the Teacher’s AI Cafe recaps key AI updates affecting teachers: OpenAI has removed older models (including the 5.1 family as of March 11), which may explain changes in outputs; Google’s substantial Gemini update across Docs, Sheets, S...
AI Voice Roleplay for Teachers: Chat with Churchill, Caesar & Marie Curie + Language Practice (Classroom Demo)
In this podcast/YouTube episode, the host demonstrates using an iPhone’s voice mode to hold spoken, in-character conversations with historical figures for classroom learning. They prompt the AI to roleplay Winston Churchill, Julius Caesar, and ...
AI Tech Update for Educators 9th Mar
Kane from the Teacher’s AI Cafe shares major March 9 AI platform updates focused on saving teachers time. He highlights the release of ChatGPT 5.4, including a new “thinking plan” that outlines an approach before answering so teachers can adjus...
10 Surprisingly Useful Gemini Features for Teachers
Kane from the Teacher’s AI Cafe reviews Gemini’s latest updates and explains why it fits school workflows by sitting inside Google Workspace for Education with an emphasis on privacy and institutional controls. He shares 10 practical classroom ...
AI for Educators Tech Update 2nd March
Kane introduces Teacher’s AI Cafe and shares a March 2 tech update focused on what matters for teachers: Google launching the Gemini Enterprise mobile app and a new coding app, with AI increasingly embedded in everyday work tools like Google Wo...
Alpha School and the Future of AI in Education: Surveillance, Metrics, and What Teachers Must Demand
Teacher and parent Kane discusses where a psychology professor argued for integrating AI into assessment rather than banning it. He then reviews Alpha School’s AI-driven model (two hours adaptive academics, afternoons for life-skills projects) ...
AI Update for Educators 23rd Feb: Apple CarPlay AI and more
Kane from the Teacher’s AI Cafe shares a weekly AI update for educators dated Feb 23, 2026, focused on AI shifting from experimental tools into everyday infrastructure and hardware..00:00 Welcome to Teacher’s AI Cafe (What You’ll Get Fro...
Copilot in Schools: Privacy, Policies, Prompting Tips & the Real Limits of AI for Teachers
In this episode of Teacher’s AI Café, Kane sits down with a Western Australian Digital Technologies teacher to explore what artificial intelligence is really doing to coding, classrooms, and professional judgment. From the frustrations...
AI and the Future of Work: Why Career Practitioners Aren’t Getting the Answers They Need
In a bonus episode of Teacher’s AI Cafe, Kane reflects on attending a Career Connect event focused on AI and careers and shares disappointment that the session delivered few practical career insights. He summarizes guest speaker Alex Jenkins’ t...
AI tech Update for Educators 16 th Feb: Claude Free Tier Expands, Grok’s Rise, ChatGPT Ads & Saved Prompts, Gemini Chat Imports
Kane from the Teacher’s AI Cafe shares a weekly tech update dated February 16 focused on incremental AI platform changes relevant to teachers. He highlights Claude expanding its free tier with features like direct file creation, calendar and em...