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Nov 3, 2026
Adam ToddHOST
Artificial intelligence is changing education at an unprecedented pace.
Adam ToddHOST
But are we creating the next great digital divide without even realizing it? While some students are learning to think critically with AI, others are letting it do all the work and thinking for them.
Adam ToddHOST
So what does true AI literacy look like now and how do we ensure every student has the skills to thrive in an AI-powered future? Joining me today is Matthew Winters, an artificial intelligence specialist for the Utah State Board of Education.
Adam ToddHOST
Together, we'll explore the growing AI literacy gap and what every educator needs to know before it becomes tomorrow's achievement gap.
Aubrey MasangoHOST
So we're dealing with neurodivergent individuals in different schools, in different socioeconomic realities.
Aubrey MasangoHOST
And perhaps that's a question I need to ask, Don, around the The sample, the research samples that you use at the five schools, just in terms of the effects of the digital divide on some of the kids that you studied, the various demographics, what are the issues there? Is it possible to come with credible evidence given the diversity of the individuals that you looked at in your samples?
Daniel Le RouxGUEST
Yeah, so one of the challenges or one of the limitations of this study was that the high schools that participated in this study are all what we call quintile five high schools.
Daniel Le RouxGUEST
Now quintile five high schools, the South African education system ranks high schools or categorizes high schools based on the income or the average income in the area where that high school is located, right, with quintile five being those that are on the upper tier socioeconomically and quintile one on the lower tier.
Surabhi AgarwalHOST
Right now we are in a situation where too few companies and countries have immense hold over compute powerful models.
Surabhi AgarwalHOST
What does it do to the rest of the world? Are we in a situation where AI in some way may widen the digital divide which was already there between rich countries and poor countries?
Lila IbrahimGUEST
I think when you look at AI today, we need to think about the entire ecosystem.
Lila IbrahimGUEST
So if I give you an example, in India, it is the fourth largest number of researchers using our
Nina Del RioHOST
So recently, Mayor Zoran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels announced an AI moratorium in New York City public schools.
Nina Del RioHOST
What does that mean for students? And could the decision exacerbate the digital divide? My guest is Archana Jayaram, Chief Executive Officer of Brooklyn Community Services, one of Brooklyn's oldest and largest human service organizations, founded in 1866.
Nina Del RioHOST
They operate over 50 programs across 28 Brooklyn locations to support children, youth, and adults facing economic hardship, homelessness, mental illness, or developmental disabilities.
Nina Del RioHOST
Their website is wearebcs.org. And Archana Jayaram, thank you for being on Get Connected.
David McSwainGUEST
And that's what NC Chain is providing.
Aimee FasoHOST
What do you see are your biggest challenges with reducing this digital divide?
David McSwainGUEST
The biggest challenge in this whole space is just the speed with which everything is evolving.
David McSwainGUEST
We at UNC have evaluated hundreds of these AI tools in the last three years.
Nat MalkusHOST
Dan Cox is the director of the Survey Center on American Life here at AEI.
Nat MalkusHOST
He's also the author of a recent report, A Digital Divide in American Adolescence, Gender, Class, and the New Teenage Experience.
Nat MalkusHOST
And a new book, Generation Uncoupled, America's New Gender Divide and the Crisis of Human Connection.
Nat MalkusHOST
Dan was last on The Report Card in September 2021 when I invited him onto the podcast to discuss our report on American attitudes toward COVID-19 in public schools.
Nat MalkusHOST
All right, Dan, you have a new book out.
Nat MalkusHOST
It's titled Generation Uncoupled, America's New Gender Divide and the Crisis of Human Connection.
Nat MalkusHOST
You also have a recent report out titled titled A Digital Divide in American Adolescence, Gender, Class, and the New Teenage Experience.
Nat MalkusHOST
Both the book and the report deal with younger Americans, adolescents, and also sort of young adults.
Nat MalkusHOST
Dan Cox is the director of the Survey Center on American Life here at AEI.
Nat MalkusHOST
He's also the author of a recent report, A Digital Divide in American Adolescence, Gender, Class, and the New Teenage Experience.
Nat MalkusHOST
And a new book, Generation Uncoupled, America's New Gender Divide and the Crisis of Human Connection.
Nat MalkusHOST
Dan was last on The Report Card in September 2021 when I invited him onto the podcast to discuss our report on American attitudes toward COVID-19 in public schools.
Nat MalkusHOST
All right, Dan, you have a new book out.
Nat MalkusHOST
It's titled Generation Uncoupled, America's New Gender Divide and the Crisis of Human Connection.
Nat MalkusHOST
You also have a recent report out titled titled A Digital Divide in American Adolescence, Gender, Class, and the New Teenage Experience.
Nat MalkusHOST
Both the book and the report deal with younger Americans, adolescents, and also sort of young adults.
Natalie SilversteinHOST
I hope you'll be inspired by these conversations, which prove that every person, no matter their age, can help to create a kinder world.
Natalie SilversteinHOST
The pandemic brought the digital divide to light, the fact that many students didn't have access to the devices or the connectivity they needed to participate fully in school.
Natalie SilversteinHOST
My guest today, Chris from Virginia, had this experience himself and decided to work with other students to ensure that every child has the technology they need to thrive.
Natalie SilversteinHOST
He created reTech for Kids, which harnesses volunteers and works with businesses and individuals to collect, refurbish, and distribute secondhand technology to underserved students around the globe.
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ChrisGUEST
I mean, um, if you're a company or a university, obviously you have to, um, hold-- Your, your s- uh, security is very important.
Natalie SilversteinHOST
This is such important work.
Natalie SilversteinHOST
You know, we-- I think the pandemic really brought to light the sort of digital divide, right, between the haves and the have-nots, the people who take for granted Wi-Fi, [laughs] which is actually not acce-ac-accessible to a lot of people in our country and around the world, unfortunately.
Natalie SilversteinHOST
Um, devices.
Kevin DonnellyGUEST
Despite all of those pro-consumer angles, we still see policymakers really, I think, misunderstanding the role of these models in deploying broadband, removing barriers to access.
Kevin DonnellyGUEST
Really, when we talk about ending the digital divide, these are some of the most important tools we should be keeping in the market.
Kevin DonnellyGUEST
And so some policymakers, despite all of that good stuff, will try to undermine the economic model, whether it's by outright limiting or regulating the broadband model in the first place or by undermining it, by limiting the ability of housing providers and our tech partners to be able to recoup a lot of that capex or infrastructure build that's critically needed to get a property, whether it's a green build or new or excuse me, existing property, really get it to a modern posture in terms of infrastructure.
Kevin DonnellyGUEST
Limiting our ability to recoup that cost means that simply the economics don't work.
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