Questioning The Oracle: Rethinking AI, the classroom, and ourselves as educators
Topics: AI ,Education, Pedagogy, classroom, Teaching
Title : Questioning The Oracle: Rethinking AI, the classroom, and ourselves as educators
Participants: Woden Teachout, Chris Voparil
Publish Date: 05/15/2025
Homepage : http://www.dreport.org
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Conversation Topics:
• How do we approach AI in our personhood and in our profession?
• What happens if we consider AI as magic?
• What happens if we perceive AI as monster?
• Does AI have the power for deep destruction?
• Can we imagine AI as a junior assistant ( very hard working but very potentially flawed)?
• What happens if you ask an AI agent about Richard Rorty?
• Do you need a professor to identify the limitations of using Ai to get answers?
• Can students identify a paper written by a human from a paper generated by AI?
• Why does it matter how people understand AI?
• What if some of us think of AI as an oracle orb in cave?
• Is the perception of AI a key factor in our response to AI?
• What happened to the google employee that advocated for AI’s freedom? Blake Lemoine, a former Google engineer made headlines in 2022 when he publicly claimed that Google's AI system, LaMDA was sentient.
• How humans relate to AI agents is important?
• Have you read the book by Ethann Mollick titled Co-Intelligence?
• Why does humanizing our interactions with AI result in more productive outcomes?
• Are you familiar with critical AI literacy and Maha Bali?- https://blog.mahabali.me/
• How does the perception of AI change the user of AI?
• What are the safety parameters for AI we use as educators?
• How do the types of question we ask affect the output?
• Is AI only giving us predicted patterns of answers we want to see?
• What are the implications of AI in education?
• Is AI used in school undermining foundational educational skill sets?
• What is the purpose of educators?
• What is the purpose of students?
• How do educators convince students that individual contribution is more valuable than the AI generated content?
• Can we tell students that AI is not taking the class?
• What are educators asking students to do that cannot be done by AI?
• How does AI place a burden for educators to justify their value added in education?
• Is AI used by students cheating? Is AI used by educators cheating?
• How will students of the future change because of AI?
• How must educators change because of AI?
• Are you familiar with American philosopher Cathy Legg?
https://american-philosophy.org/i-am-an-american-philosopher-interview-series/cathy-legg/
• Is it necessary for student to have an existential experience with the classroom material in order to have meaningful education?
12 Mar 2025
Manifesting Our Future: A Conversation with Miguel Najera
Topics: Creativity, Community, Film, Edutainment
Title: Manifesting Our Future: A Conversation with Miguel Najera
Participants: Miguel Najera
Publish Date: 03/11/2025
Homepage: http://www.dreport.org
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Conversation Topics:
• Miguel Najera’s Short Film Vision
Go fund me page: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-miguel-najeras-edutainment-vision
• Chicano Headlines news, Radio Aztlan
• KUCR 88.3 FM in riverside
• How do we share stories of our communities?
• Where do we hear stories of our indigenous?
• How do we manifest our creative plans into reality?
• How do we make a short film?
• How do you manifest ( make) our future?
• Our communities are composed of creative people.
• What happens to our plans when we don’t leave our dreams behind?
• What is edutainment?
• How do we find or meet the people that will support our creativity?
• How do we stay true to ourselves as we get older?
• What are the different kinds of stories we want to share?
• How do films frame the way the audience sees and understands the world?
21 Jan 2025
Language, Culture and Perceptions of Our Worlds: Towards an awareness of being more human(e).
Topics: Education, Language ideologies, Linguicism, Critical Pedagogy
Title : Language, Culture and Perceptions of our worlds: Towards an awareness of being more human(e).
Participants: Kate Alice Garnett,
Publish Date: 1/20/2025
Homepage : http://www.dreport.org
Also available on:
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Conversation Topics:
• Key words: linguicism, critical language awareness, Humane education and critical pedagogy
• What is the role of language in planetary justice?
• What is the relationship between language and culture?
• How does language frame culture?
• What is our understanding of culture?
• How do we define language?
• What is the relationship between language and the perception of the world?
• How does language shape the way we recall information?
• Do multi-lingual people have access to different worldviews?
• How many languages have we tried to learn?
• Do we enter a different cultural domain when we learn a different language?
• How does language serve as library?
• Does language serve as a carrier to different perspectives of how the world operates?
• How does the school space become the place to enforce dominant language ideologies?
• How do language instruction programs either misunderstand or choose not to understand the crucial relationship between language use and culture?
• How does language supremacy express itself among well intention educators?
• What is the relationship between global economic needs and mono-lingual instruction programs?
• What is critical language awareness?
• How do educators examine and reflect on the purpose in reproducing English to the detriment of other languages?
• How does studying language help us understand society in general?
• What tools can educators use to improve their practice by becoming more critically aware of the politics of language and reveal the intersection of power oppression and culture?
• How do we use a self-reflection journal as tool to examine language use and teaching practices?
• How do we make language a tool of equal empowerment?
• Language is “big;”- a dense and powerful element of our humanity.
• What is the history of elimination of languages through a preference system that converts a few languages into dominant languages?
• How to you minoritize communities through purposefully severing people from their languages?
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