Episode 2: Two Lane Approach at Lakefield College School

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400

Lakefield College School is an innovator when it comes to AI in education, and in this episode, we’re joined by Heather Adams, Teacher and Program Area Leader from the School.

Heather and Ryan discuss Lakefield's "Two-Lane" assessment model for AI, and how AI has actually brought Heather closer to her students by forcing more authentic, one-on-one interactions. She emphasizes that in a world where the "answers are stapled to the back of the test," the burden is on educators to redesign assessments rather than on students, to resist the pull of a tool that creates effortless "flow."

Heather also discusses her pragmatic, albeit "optimistic," advice for education institutions in this rapidly changing landscape, as well as the challenges of preparing students for an evolving future of work.

Show Credits

Host(s): Ryan Oliver, Melissa Sariffodeen

Producer: Zac Miller

Editor(s): Zac Miller, Kyle Gordon

Composition: Warren Frank

Episode 1: Human-Centred AI in the Classroom

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:30:00 -0400

In this episode, we’re joined by Eric Hudson to discuss reframing AI from “something to be policed” to “closing the teacher student exposure gap through experimentation and literacy”, and how we can treat AI as a tool for augmenting human thinking and deepening knowledge, rather than replacing learning.

Eric is a facilitator and strategic advisor who supports schools in making sense of what’s changing in education. He specializes in learner and centered assessment, human centered leadership, and strategic program design.

Eric has articulated four priorities for human centered AI in schools: augmentation over automation, literacy over policy, design over technology, and vision over decisions. He uses these priorities with schools as a way to make decisions that ensure their approach to AI is sustainable, strategic, and human centered.