AI for Educators
AI for Educators
Dan Fitzpatrick | The AI Educator
Standing in the Foothills: Inside The Educators' AI Guide 2027
16 minutes Posted Aug 31, 2026 at 3:00 pm.
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Our new book is out, so this episode is me walking through what's in it and why we made it.

The Educators' AI Guide 2027 runs to 30 chapters from 28 educators across the world, edited with Heather Brown. I talk through the five issues I set out in the introduction: why the chatbot era is already old news, why we have to start designing for when AI enters the learning rather than whether it does, why assessment has run out of road, what serious AI governance looks like now, and what happens when teachers start building their own software.

Along the way: Larisa Black's blunt test for any assessment, Samantha Armstrong on the difference between a shortcut and a tool, a preschool teacher in Türkiye who got 21 hours a month of documentation down to 90 minutes, Heather's chapter on AI companions, and Stuti Mehta's case for going haule haule.

Get the book at theeducatorsaiguide.com