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Big Tech's Education Playbook: Exposed (ft. NY Times journalist Natasha Singer)

Sep 21, 2026 · 44m

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About this episode

What happens when Big Tech gets to decide what our kids learn? Technology companies have worked their way into our schools—not just providing the devices and software, but influencing curriculum, training teachers, lobbying lawmakers, and shaping what educators are told our kids need to succeed. In this episode, I sit down with NY Times journalist Natasha Singer , author of Coding Kids , to unpack how the tech industry sold America on the idea that every child needed to code—and how that same playbook is now being used to push AI into our classrooms. We talk about the viral video featuring Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates that helped launch the coding movement, the billions of dollars and…