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Save Our Sundays
Save Our Sundays is the build-in-public podcast from MyTeacherAide, hosted by co-founders Josh and Jacob. Follow along as they rebuild MyTeacherAide V3, an AI toolbox designed to help teachers save time on planning, resources and admin. Each episode goes behind the scenes of building an education technology product in real time, unpacking teacher workload, AI in education, product decisions, school feedback, curriculum alignment, privacy, and the messy reality of trying to create tools teachers…
Episodes
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What it (actually) took to build this app
Well, this one's a little different, Sunday gang! 👀 After six months of designing, developing, testing, tweaking (and occasionally questioning our life choices…
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Students Are Cheating With AI. Should We Change How We Assess Them?
It's Term 4, and teachers have enough on their plates without having to play detective every time a student submits an assignment. 😅 But with AI-generated…
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3 Hopes We Have for MyTeacherAide
We're back! 🎉 After a two-week school holiday break, Save Our Sundays is back in your podcast feed. This time, Josh is recording from sunny Goa, India, while…
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AI Is Getting Better. Teacher Judgement Matters More Than Ever.
Last week, we told you AI doesn’t actually know anything. Which raises a fairly obvious question: Then why is it getting so good? In Episode 21 of Save Our…
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What Teachers Need to Know About How AI Works | Australian AI Framework Series • Part 7
AI can write a lesson plan, create a worksheet and answer almost any question you throw at it. There’s just one slightly important detail: It doesn’t actually…
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You Don’t Have to Like AI. But You Do Need to Understand It. | Australian AI Framework Series • Part 6
You don’t have to like AI. But as a teacher, can you afford not to understand it? In Episode 19 of Save Our Sundays, Josh and Jacob return to the Australian…
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Two Teaching Techniques You Can Steal for Your Classroom
How do you get students to know more, think more - and stop quietly flying under the radar? In Episode 18 of Save Our Sundays, Josh and Jacob are wrapping up…
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The Book Every Teacher Should Read
What if five minutes at the beginning of a lesson could change the way the rest of it goes? In Episode 17 of Save Our Sundays, Josh and Jacob are back with…
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How to Foster a Love of Reading | BOOK WEEK SPECIAL
The costumes are ready, the parade is coming... but are our kids actually reading? In this special Book Week episode of Save Our Sundays, Josh and Jacob put…
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AI Has a Sycophancy Problem | Australian AI Framework Series • Part 5
AI is supposed to help expose us to different ideas and perspectives. But what happens when it would rather just agree with us? In Episode 15 of Save Our…
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How to Prevent AI Bullying in Your School | Australian AI Framework Series • Part 4
In Episode 14 of Save Our Sundays, Josh and Jacob move onto Principle 2: Human and Social Wellbeing of the Australian Framework for Generative AI in Schools -…
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3 Ways to Prepare Your Students for an AI World | Australian AI Framework Series • Part 3
Over the past two episodes, we've explored how AI can support teachers and where it belongs in teaching and learning. But this week, we turn our attention to…
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Where Does AI Actually Belong in Teaching? | Australian AI Framework Series • Part 2
Episode 12 continues our series unpacking the Australian Framework for Generative AI in Schools, moving beyond assessment to explore a much bigger question…
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How to AI-Proof Your Assessments
In Episode 11 of Save Our Sundays, Josh and Jacob kick off a brand-new series unpacking the Australian Framework for Generative AI in Schools - starting with…
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Can We Talk About Teacher Influencers?
In Episode 10 of Save Our Sundays, Josh and Producer Gabby record a special episode and dive into the rise of teacher-influencers. Teachers are everywhere on…
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How Should Schools Respond to Student AI Use?
In Episode 9 of Save Our Sundays, Josh and Jacob continue the conversation on student AI use by asking a practical question: What are schools actually doing…
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If Teachers Can Use AI, Why Can’t Students?
In Episode 8 of Save Our Sundays, Josh and Jacob unpack one of the biggest questions teachers are being asked right now: “If teachers are allowed to use AI…
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When Am I Ever Going to Use This?
In Episode 7 of Save Our Sundays, Josh and Jacob kick off a new series called Questions from the Back Desk, where they unpack the questions teachers hear from…
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Plan Like a Champion: What Good Lesson Planning Actually Looks Like
In Episode 6 of Save Our Sundays, Josh and Jacob unpack what good lesson planning actually looks like, and why a lesson plan should be more than a neat…
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School in India vs. School in America
In Episode 5 of Save Our Sundays, Josh and Jacob take a slightly different route and compare what school looked like for them growing up: Josh in India, Jacob…
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Don't Make AI Your Friend
In Episode 4 of Save Our Sundays, Josh and Jacob unpack one of the stranger conversations happening around AI right now: “AI psychosis”, and what happens when…
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Brain First, AI Second: Using AI Without Outsourcing Teacher Judgement
Most conversations about AI in education ask the same question: can it save teachers time? But in this episode of Save Our Sundays, Josh and Jacob ask a better…
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What Is AI, Actually? How Teachers Can Use It Without Wasting Time
AI is everywhere, but what is it actually doing? In this episode of Save Our Sundays, Josh and Jacob break down what AI really is, how AI chatbots work in…
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The Wedding, the Idea, and the AI Tool for Teachers
In the first episode of Save Our Sundays, Josh and Jacob share the story behind MyTeacherAide: how the idea started, why teacher workload made the problem feel…