About Margin of Thought

The Show

Margin of Thought is a podcast about the questions we don’t always make time for but should.

Hosted by Priten, the show features wide-ranging conversations with educators, civic leaders, technologists, academics, and students.

Each season centers on a key tension in modern life that affects how we raise and educate our children.

What I Explore

  • Citizenship: What makes a good citizen?
  • Education: What is the purpose of education today?
  • Basic Rights: How can we ensure universal protections?
  • Humanities: What is their role in democracy?
  • Entrepreneurship: How do we build ethical innovation?
  • Humanity: What makes life worth living?

Season 1 — Ethical EdTech

What happens when we bring technology into the classroom?

This season investigates the moral and civic dilemmas surrounding AI, surveillance, and smartphone use in K–12 schools. It’s a companion to Priten’s upcoming book Ethical Ed Tech, and it unpacks the lived tensions behind the headlines.

What You’ll Hear

  • Long-form interviews with administrators, policymakers, and researchers
  • Short-form commentary from students, teachers, and parents
  • Episode themes including cheating, surveillance, screen time, and data privacy

Why This Season Matters

Technology is reshaping education faster than ever before. This season aims to surface the hard questions: How much should we surveil students? Who gets to decide how AI is used? And what kind of learning do we actually want to protect?

About the Host

Priten is an educator, philosopher, and entrepreneur working at the intersection of technology and education.

He is the CEO of PedagogyVentures, where he helps organizations integrate technology with proven teaching strategies.

Priten leads three nonprofit: PedagogyFutures, as Executive Director, which provides professional development resources to build a responsible, ethical, human-centered future for educational technology; Academy 4 Social Civics, as President, which is dedicated to civics education that prepares students to tackle future challenges; and ThinkerAnalytix, as CTO, which is working to scale critical thinking instruction at educational institutions around the world.

Priten is also the author of the AI & The Future of Education: Teaching in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Wiley, 2023), which was translated into Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, and Vietnamese, and the forthcoming book Ethical Ed Tech: How Educators Can Lead on AI & Digital Safety in K-12 (Wiley, 2026). He teaches courses on the Ethics of Ed Tech, Family & Society, and Epistemic Justice at College Unbound, a bachelor’s degree-granting institution focused on adult learners.

Priten is a visiting researcher at the Harvard Department of Philosophy focusing on developing philosophically grounded yet practical approaches to teaching critical, ethical reasoning at scale for educators and students.

He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Harvard College and an M.Ed. in Education Policy and Management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education

Want to Be a Guest?

If you're an educator, student, policymaker, parent, technologist, or simply someone with a thoughtful perspective on the themes we explore, we’d love to hear from you.

Reach out to [email protected] and tell us a bit about your background, what topic you're interested in discussing, and why you think it matters now.