To celebrate the 100th edition of the SecEd Podcast this episode counts down our top 10 most popular podcasts of all time. Have you listened to them all?

Launched in early 2020, the SecEd Podcast has been on air for five years and to mark episode 100 podcast co-hosts Pete Henshaw and Matt Bromley reveal our top 10 most listened to episodes – interspersed with clips and highlights from each one.

Without giving the game away, themes include oracy education, senior and middle leadership, quality first teaching, classroom management, Pupil Premium, inclusion and SEN, and much, much more.

Matt and Pete also pick out their own favourite episodes from the last five years.

All these episodes and indeed all of our 100 episodes are available to listen back to via the SecEd website – www.sec-ed.co.uk/podcast – or via your streaming service of choice.

Our thanks to you – the teachers and educators of the UK – for listening. Here’s to the next 100 episodes!

This episode looks at the opportunities and risks presented by the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in education.

We speak to three experts who are working in schools to develop AI in effective and safe ways.

We kick off the discussion by asking our panel to list what they consider to be the three biggest benefits of AI in schools and the three biggest risks/threats.

We then look at whole-school AI strategy and policy. What does a good AI strategy look like and what elements need to be included in a school’s AI policy? What does effective staff training look like? How should education around AI be fed into the curriculum? What kind of “rules” need to be in place? And what does Ofsted have to say about AI?

We also talk AI in the classroom. How might teachers use AI in their lesson-planning and resource-creation? We discuss a number of ideas for using AI to create resources/plan lessons.

Also, what risks should teachers be aware of when using AI? What pitfalls do teachers need to avoid?

We talk about diversity in resource-creation, the pitfalls of prompt engineering, and data protection.

We name drop a few resources that our panel are using with success, and we end the podcast with their biggest “lessons learned” so far and their final reflections.

This episode looks at what it means to be a research-informed school and how we can use research to improve teaching, learning, and student outcomes.

We talk to three experienced and research-engaged educators about what kind of research it is best for schools to use – and how we can know that any particular piece of research is valid and trustworthy.

We then consider how we can balance external research studies and findings with our own evidence collected internally in our schools.

Our panel advise how we can help teachers to engage with academic research, including via in-school CPD as well as further study such as doctorates.

We also discuss how we can use research evidence in decision-making processes and school improvement planning.