Enlightenment for Educators

Insights + Workshops + Opportunities

Author

Carl Morris
September 25, 2025

We help educators teach, learn and earn.

The Bobby Tables Problem

Your no-code EdTech app has a fatal flaw...

...and it’s not in the pedagogy or the UI.

We're in an amazing new era of EdTech. No-code tools are empowering educators to build hyper-specific solutions for their own schools.

It’s powerful, fast, and effective.

But there's a hidden danger when brilliant ideas aren't backed by deep technical knowledge. As educators (including me) love to say, "you don't know what you don't know."

Enter the "Bobby Tables" problem. One simple oversight can put your entire venture, and students' data, at risk.

Here’s what this new era means for you:

For Founders: Your domain expertise is your superpower. Your next step is to partner with technical experts early.

For Developers: Your role is more critical than ever. Scaling, refining, and securing the wave of new ideas this trend will unleash.

At educave, our venture programme helps founders bridge this exact gap.

If you're an educator-turned-founder, let's connect.

Community

For educators, by educators

Shark Tank Jr @ The Bureau Dubai, August 2025

Workshops for Learners & Educators

More than ever, students need skills like critical thinking, creative problem-solving, communication, leadership, and digital literacy.

But there’s a lack of guidance for educators on how to actually foster these crucial skills. In one study, teachers shared 29 different definitions for what "21st century skills” actually mean.

To close the skills gap, we’ve designed and delivered workshops for students like Shark Tank Jr.

Students (aged 11-16) learnt the fundamentals of solving real-world problems, designing solutions using AI safely, and presented their pitches to business leaders.

We’re also training educators on how to integrate the skill-building from workshops like this into their classrooms.

Reach out if this is of interest to you or your school.

The Champagne Myth

We're taught to believe the best label = the best quality. But the data (and the taste tests) tell a different story.

This got me thinking about how we hire tutors. Many parents see QTS as the "Champagne Label" or an automatic sign of the best.

In blind taste tests, English sparkling wines beat French champagnes. So while QTS is a fantastic mark of quality, it's not the whole story.

The "best" tutor for your child involves a blend of specialism, personality, and teaching style. Choosing a tutor based only on a single qualification is like always picking champagne out of habit, without considering if a different, perhaps more suitable choice might be better. You might be missing out on the perfect pairing.

Opportunities

Phoenix Tutors is an educave venture that helps learners with tutoring, residential programmes, homeschooling, self-paced courses, and extracurriculars for the real world. Do you help students love learning?

  1. Inspiring Freelancers | All Subjects | In-Person | Dubai-Based

  2. Science & Maths Educators | Online

  3. Residential & Home Schooling Tutors

➡️ Book call here

➡️ Share CV here

AI is coming for your admin, not your job

And just like that, summer’s over.

Back to the physical and/or virtual classroom. Back to planning, reporting, marking, rinsing, washing, and repeating.

But what if there was a better way?

Could you save time but still design and deliver great lessons?

We’re building with and for educators to make this possible.

For educators, there are inherent problems with using off-the-shelf AI: lack of context, data privacy, etc etc.

But what if your AI was educator-guided? What if all the sensitive student and school data you share with ChatGPT was safeguarded by a model trained by you? Your rubrics, your feedback style, with all your students’ reports and assessments.

And what if it was free for educators Would that make going back to school better?

Research Room

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Do your students prefer feedback from educators or AI?
In academic writing tasks, learners show strong preference for human tutors over AI feedback. Free-dialogue interface increases preference for AI feedback, structured interface reinforces preference for human tutors.

How do you teach 21st century skills?
There is no consensus among teachers about the skills required for the 21st century, let alone how to embed them in the curriculum. Education policy talks a lot about these skills but teachers say they aren’t given guidance or frameworks to foster them.

Share this with an educator you love and/or respect.

Until next time,

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