The podcast
Create with Vaughn Littlejohns
Conversations with school leaders creating with AI, not just consuming it. Real classrooms, real attempts, and what happened after.
What it is
Educators talking about what they've actually built.
Most of the AI conversation in education happens a long way from a classroom. This show is the other version. I sit down with teachers and school leaders who have made something, used it with real students or real staff, and can say what worked and what didn't.
I'm a Director of Technology and Innovation at an IB World School and a former NSW Deputy Principal, so these are peer conversations rather than interviews with an expert. I'm asking the questions I need answered myself.
Episodes tend to run to a simple shape: what the guest tried, what it took, what it changed, and what they would do differently. Nobody is selling anything.
Who it's for
Anyone carrying this inside a school.
Teachers, heads of department, deputy principals, heads of school, and the person who ended up owning technology. If AI has landed on your plate with nothing taken off it, you're the person I have in mind while recording.
You don't need a technical background. Every episode is built to be understood by someone who teaches for a living.
Episodes
Episodes to start with
There are more than seventy episodes. These are four good places to begin. The rest are on Spotify and YouTube.
Cora Yang
You've Done the AI Training. So Why Is Nothing Changing?
Why the training so often fails to land, and what actually moves AI from a one-off session into the daily work of a classroom.
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Ryan Noonan
What Teachers Actually See Using AI in Classrooms
The on-the-ground view from a teacher actually using AI day to day, not the version from the conference stage.
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Ryan Krakofsky
How a Teacher Built 22 AI Apps in Hours, Without Coding
What that says about what is now possible in a school, from a teacher with no coding background.
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Trust is the New Oil: How AI is Reshaping Education
Trust as the working currency of an AI-dominated world: why communication, empathy and real relationships matter more as it gets harder to tell human work from machine-generated.
ListenWhere to listen
Listen wherever you already listen
Full episodes on Spotify, and the video version on YouTube.
The Littlejohns Letter
The written version of the same work
My most useful tactics on AI in schools, and nothing at all when I've nothing worth your time.