Kane from the Teacher’s AI Cafe shares a weekly AI update for educators dated Feb 23, 2026, focused on AI shifting from experimental tools into everyday infrastructure and hardware..

00:00 Welcome to Teacher’s AI Cafe (What You’ll Get From This Channel)

00:20 Weekly AI Update Kickoff: Feb 23, 2026

00:48 AI Goes Ambient: Apple CarPlay Adds Gemini & Claude Voice Chat

01:49 How Teachers Could Use In-Car AI: Brainstorms, To‑Dos, and Decompressing

02:49 Security Alert: AI Assistants as a New Cybersecurity Weak Point

03:26 Regulation Watch: UK Moves to Cover AI Bots Under Online Safety Laws

04:21 Model Update: Claude 4.6 and Longer, More Coherent Chats

05:06 Work & Wellbeing: If AI Takes the Easy Tasks, Do We Lose Mental Breaks?

06:48 Wrap-Up: What to Watch Next Week + Final Sign-Off

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In this episode of Teacher’s AI Café, Kane sits down with a Western Australian Digital Technologies teacher to explore what artificial intelligence is really doing to coding, classrooms, and professional judgment. From the frustrations of AI rewriting perfectly good code to the practical realities of rolling out Microsoft Copilot in a school setting, the conversation moves beyond hype and into lived experience. They touch on data privacy, age restrictions, staff professional learning, and the growing question of whether schools should commit to a single, trackable AI platform. At its core, this episode asks a critical question for educators: how do we embrace powerful new tools while ensuring that teacher expertise, responsibility, and discernment remain firmly at the centre?

00:00 Welcome to Teacher’s AI Cafe (what this show is about)

00:24 Meet David: his teaching & edtech journey

01:37 From coding hype to AI-assisted coding in class

03:29 Vibe coding reality check: refactoring, bloat & breaking changes

06:14 Will AI replace developers? The job-market debate

07:09 Private school AI rollout: early exploration, privacy & platform trials

09:55 Microsoft vs Google vs Apple: platform lock-in and the AI arms race

17:27 Copilot in school: age rules, blocking other tools & safety tracking

19:31 Staff PD wins & hilarious Copilot fails (Word doc image, “don’t want to talk”)

24:04 Using AI wisely: environmental impact and when not to bother

25:07 When AI Edits Go Sideways: Knowing When It’s the Wrong Tool

25:36 Can Copilot Actually Make a Decent PowerPoint? (Gamma vs NotebookLM)

27:26 Free vs Paid Copilot: Document Access, Exports, and Real-World Limits

28:25 School Rollout Plan: Termly PD, AI ‘Brews’, and a Monthly Newsletter

30:51 Students & Staff on the Same Platform (and the ‘Use Copilot’ Moment)

33:28 Advice for Teachers Starting with AI: Begin with What Your School Provides

35:27 AI for Health & Fitness: Great Ideas, Dangerous Overconfidence

42:38 Teacher Expertise First: Verification, Ownership, and Smart Classroom Use

45:02 Wrapping Up: Staying Critical, Hype vs Reality, and What’s Next

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In a bonus episode of Teacher’s AI Cafe, Kane reflects on attending a Career Connect event focused on AI and careers and shares disappointment that the session delivered few practical career insights. He summarizes guest speaker Alex Jenkins’ talk on generative AI and the future of work, including claims about AI’s potential global economic value, examples of AI-generated media, a Deloitte refund story, and demonstrations such as rapid website creation. Kane highlights Jenkins’ key point that AI is more likely to augment roles than replace them, but notes the talk lacked detailed discussion of which careers are being impacted and how. Kane also recaps a second speaker from the Public Sector Union discussing worker-centered AI adoption and reporting no reduction in entry-level jobs so far, while Kane argues many teen entry-level roles were already reduced through earlier automation like self-checkouts and ordering kiosks. He raises concern about reductions in graduate and internship opportunities as AI takes on tasks traditionally done by junior professionals, using law and software development examples (including Claude’s capabilities) to question how future experts will gain experience. The episode closes by inviting listeners’ perspectives, noting education is currently less threatened due to teacher shortages, and observing that much AI adoption is happening informally as “shadow AI” work.

00:00 Welcome to Teacher’s AI Cafe (and what this bonus episode is about)

00:23 Career Connect recap: expecting big AI insights for careers

01:44 Speaker 1 breakdown: Generative AI & the future of work (the highlights)

02:58 The key idea: job replacement vs job augmentation (co-pilot model)

04:50 Why the talk fell short: productivity isn’t a career roadmap

06:17 Speaker 2 (Public Sector Union): workers-first AI adoption + early findings

07:04 Entry-level work was already automated: self-serve, kiosks, mobile ordering

08:10 The real concern: shrinking graduate pathways and missing career guidance

09:33 When AI eats its own industry: Claude, law work, and coding jobs

10:27 Humans ‘in the loop’… but what happens to junior roles?

11:33 Bigger ripple effects: pricing, business models, and quality of service

12:15 Wrap-up: your thoughts, education’s outlook, and the ‘shadow AI’ reality

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