EDU Café, where education meets inspiration! Hosted by Consult4Ed Group, this podcast is your go-to space for the latest trends, challenges, and innovations in education. Join us as we explore one episode and post at a time!
Beyond Compliance: The Constitutional Rights Students Already Have
As educational opportunities continue to expand beyond traditional classrooms, an important question remains: Are students' rights following them into these new learning environments?
In the latest episode of EDU Café Podcast (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/#), I had the opportunity to reconnect with Kelsey R. Ortiz (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/#), a friend and longtime advocate and researcher whose work has focused on ensuring that students with disabilities retain their rights in online, virtual, and alternative educational settings.
Kelsey and I first met more than a decade ago through the Center for Online Learning and Students with Disabilities, where we shared a passion for understanding how policy can support equitable access for all learners. In this conversation, we explore:
🔹 The evolution of special education policy in digital learning environments
🔹 Why constitutional and educational rights must remain at the center of innovation
🔹 The growing gap between educational practice and policy
🔹 Challenges districts and states face in protecting students in alternative settings
🔹 Reasons for hope, including emerging advocates and new research on technology's impact on learning
This episode also launches a new EDU Café series focused on the intersection of policy, practice, and student rights. As education continues to evolve, these conversations are more important than ever.
A huge thank you to Kelsey for sharing her expertise and helping us frame this critical discussion.
#EDUCafe #SpecialEducation #EducationalEquity #StudentRights #DigitalLearning #OnlineLearning #EducationPolicy #Accessibility #InclusiveEducation #LeadershipInEducation
1 Jun 2026
Data Literacy and Data Ethics in Education
I’m excited to share the latest episode of the EDU Café Podcast, where I had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Ellen Mandinach and Dr. Ed Dieterle for an incredibly thoughtful conversation about data literacy, data ethics, AI, and the future of education.
As schools increasingly rely on data and technology to guide instruction and decision-making, this discussion explored an essential question: How do we use data responsibly while still keeping relationships, critical thinking, and the whole child at the center of learning?
Some powerful themes from this episode:
Why data literacy is about much more than test scores
The importance of culturally responsive and ethical data use
How AI can both support and disrupt teaching and learning
The risks of over-automation and “de-skilling” educators
Why teachers must remain critical thinkers—not just consumers of technology
The importance of understanding students’ lived experiences and contexts
Dr. Mandinach shared from the conversation: “A child is not a single data point.”
Thank you both for joining EDU Café and for continuing to push the field forward in such meaningful ways.
#Education #DataLiteracy #DataEthics #AIinEducation #EdTech #EducationalLeadership #TeachingAndLearning #EDUCafePodcast
26 May 2026
Data Is Not Neutral: Rethinking Measurement, AI, and Equity in Education
What if data isn’t neutral but, instead, actively shaping who students become?
In the latest episode of EDU Café, I sit down with Dr. Ezekiel Dixon-Román and Dr. Ed Dieterle to unpack one of the most urgent conversations in education today: how data, algorithms, and AI are influencing not just how we measure learning but how we define it.
We explore:
🔹 Why data is socially produced and interpreted, not objective
🔹 How AI is shaping learning and behavior
🔹 The hidden risks of “efficient” technologies in classrooms
🔹 What fairness, ethics, and human-centered design should look like in practice
A key takeaway from this conversation: Before adopting any new technology, we should ask not just, “Does it work?” but “Do we actually need it to do things better, to do better things, or both?”
Also check out:
Upcoming book with contributions from Ed and Ezekiel: Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions. https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517920050/learning-under-algorithmic-conditions/ (https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517920050/learning-under-algorithmic-conditions/)
Upcoming University of Minnesota Press documentary directed by Valerie Veatch - Ghost in the Machine - that Ezekiel is featured in: https://kinema.com/films/ghost-in-the-machine-pvxg4p (https://kinema.com/films/ghost-in-the-machine-pvxg4p)
#Education #EdTech #AIinEducation #DataEthics #EquityInEducation #LearningDesign
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