Educational Technology Podcasts

The most immediately useful shows are demonstrations. On Tech Tools for Teachers, Shanna Martin, a middle school teacher and technology coach for her district, talks through free resources with her producer and husband, Fuzz Martin. Their 200th episode recalls that it all began at the kitchen counter. In Exploring Science she clicks into a collection of "science snacks" and lands on the head harp, whose materials list is a piece of string three feet long. You are hearing a screen described, so keep a browser open. Note the disclaimer near the end as well: there is no guarantee the tools will work as described.

SPS Digital Learning Hour grew inside one district, Springfield Public Schools, where host Mike Thomas mixed announcements, teacher interviews and a book-study series. Explaining Breakout EDU in Power Up Your Learning Episode 3: Level 3 On Your Mark: Structure, Design, and Purpose, he catches why it works: when students are wrong, "the lock just doesn't turn." Thomas announces Episode 130: Fay Dolson and Anna Meyerhoff as his last. In it, a teacher remembers a child who first knew her through a screen and, meeting her, could hardly believe she was real.

RUConnected is an archive whose latest episodes date from 2015, but Jenny Ashby and Lois Smethurst, primary teachers in Victoria, Australia, describe problems that have not aged. In RUConnected #77 Reinvention, children sharing an account rename each other's projects for a laugh, and a grade six student runs the Minecraft club logged in as the teacher. The K-12 Education and Science Education pages go further.

EdTech Situation Room Podcast by Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer reads technology news through an educational lens and tries things on air. In EdTechSR Episode 369: Dogpile and Dark Arts, the hosts watch an AI agent plan a cleanup of a course folder, unit by unit, and draw up its own task list. In EdTechSR Episode 372: AI's Psychological Dangers, one host suggests sycophancy probably "needs to be a vocabulary word for all of us in AI." Enthusiasm and alarm share the hour, which suits listeners who trust neither alone.

EdTech Bites Podcast slows down; host Gabriel Carrillo builds it around conversations that often happen over a meal. In Ep. 296 | The Hidden Problem With AI In Education W/ Ken Shelton, Shelton, an educator and consultant based in Los Angeles, asks people to define AI literacy before claiming it. Then he offers his own definition: "knowing, understanding, and using AI in smart and safe ways." Ep. 283 | Revolutionizing Education: South Africa's Bold Move with AI and Robotics keeps the hype grounded. Steve Sherman, from Cape Town, describes a coding mandate from K to 7, then a 10-meg line shared by a lab of 30 computers.

For college instructors, The Higher EdTech Podcast pairs instructional technologist Tim VanNorman with professor Brent Warner. In Can AI Make Gamification a Reality? they imagine an accounting course that gives one student extra time on the balance sheet and another on the general ledger. They also concede the first build would probably mean days of testing. The Higher Education page continues from here.

Some of the richest listening treats technology as one strand of a wider argument about teaching. Unpacking Education & Tech Talk For Teachers sets long weekly conversations beside short tool episodes, hosted by Rena Clark, Paul Beckerman and Winston Benjamin. In Implications of State-Level Math Policy on the Classroom, with Lindsey Henderson, a quotation about math access becomes "access plus confidence equals achievement." Henderson then observes that American students move through math by birthday instead of readiness. The Mathematics Education and Teaching Methods pages pick up here.

On The Education Revolution, Dr. Michelle Sengara carries the argument from schools into working life. "Technology does not make us less human," she says in The Future is HARMONIZED!, calling that "a decision we make on a day-to-day basis." In Cristi Ford - Change Management Pathways to Significant, Deep Learning she recalls a student's candor: "I understand you want me to be more than Siri or Alexa. I get it. I just want an A."

Edufuturists pushes hardest. In Edufuturists #337 Why Schools Still Teach Compliance Instead of Democracy with Dr Robin Harwick, Harwick describes a school organized around informed, competent citizens. The conversation also takes aim at special-education goals written almost entirely about behavior and compliance. The Alternative Education page is a natural next stop.

EDTech, from the AV Nation network, is a monthly round of shop talk about audiovisual technology in higher education. Losing Jobs To Bad Tech | EDTech 140 features Charity Ann Caldwell of the University of Illinois, Chicago. The panel debates whether a laminated instruction sheet is a fix or a sign that a room is too hard to use. One panelist recalls a paper called "Technology Oriented or Learning Driven" and the problem behind it: nobody asked faculty about their teaching. HETMA Takes Over ISE 2026! | EDTech 139 was recorded on a loud show floor. In it, Troy Powers of Northwestern University answers an article questioning AV spending: "I couldn't just disagree more with what this guy says."

Beyond the Technology, from JISC, stays with the slow work of implementation in colleges and universities. Digital transformation and lasting change at the University of Manchester arrives at a useful maxim: "the launch is very much the beginning." In Powered by people: building digital together, a staff digital community has passed 800 members and split into channels on immersive rooms and AI. The Educational Leadership and Professional Development pages follow this thread.

On VR in Education, host Craig's guests argue about what immersion is worth. In Episode 151- What Really Moves Learning? A 3DOF vs. 6DOF Debate, Dave of Sensible VR argues that 6DOF headsets carry heavy costs. He pictures instead a device a student picks up to see how the left ventricle works, then slips off. Episode 164- When VR Makes Us Care: Immersive Storytelling for Education and Advocacy treats grave material carefully. Its experience about the Yazidi genocide draws on testimony already public, was built with a clinical psychologist and shows no blood.

Two shows let you step back. Digital Literacies and 21st Century Skills, a course podcast from Adelphi University's Educational Technology program, hands students the microphone. In Exploring TikTok as a Virtual Community (Alyssa, Giovanna, and Kahmari), one describes discovering eight newborn rabbits and going to TikTok for advice. 25 Years of Ed Tech sets volunteer readings of Martin Weller's history beside Between the Chapters conversations hosted by Laura Pasquini, where guests feel free to argue with the book.