Knowledge is no longer scarce. Tools are cheap. Creating and consuming content is effectively free. But most education systems are still organised around assumptions that made perfect sense when information was hard to access and slow to move.
If you work in education, you do not need this explained. You feel it daily. In classrooms. In staff meetings. In policies that try to handle AI with the same logic we used for photocopiers. In assessment models that assume ideas are rare and ownership is easy to prove.
That mismatch is what The Dark Side of the Moon is about, naming it clearly, before we patch it with another tool, another policy, or another “transformation” initiative that looks great in a deck and collapses in Week 3.
This podcast came out of conversations we were already having at work. The kind where you start with, “Should we allow AI?” and end up at the real question, “What are we actually assessing now, and why?”
We keep introducing new technology into systems that were never built to change quickly. Sometimes it helps. Often it just relocates the pressure and adds a login. And the people closest to the work are left to make it all hold together, quietly absorbing the cost when the parts do not line up.
We’re not anti-tech. We’re pro-good-fit, pro-people, and honest about the trade-offs.
Each episode tackles one collision point between education and technology, what it looks like in real settings, what it costs when it fails, and what might need to change if we want the system to keep its promises.
Hosted by Garland, James, and Darren, The Dark Side of the Moon sits where education and technology actually collide. We work with schools, educators, leaders, and systems trying to adapt while still keeping things running. We are not observers. We are inside the machine.
This is not a podcast about tools, hype, or quick fixes.
It is a space to name what is actually happening, think clearly about why it is happening, and only then talk about what might need to change.
The Dark Side of the Moon is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and Audible.
If you’re tired of being sold “innovation” while you’re left carrying the consequences, welcome to the dark side. We’re going to talk about what’s actually happening, and who’s paying for it.
With appreciation from your Dark Side of the Moon Podcast hosts:
-Darren Neethling, James Capon and Garland H. Green Jr.