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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• 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?

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?

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

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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?

Topics:  Film, 

Title : The Stars Aligned: A conversation with writer of Korean

Participants:   Jennifer Kim,  

Homepage : http://www.dreport.org

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Topics:  AI, Inteligencia

Title : Inteligencia Artificial: Sera o  no será humana

Participants:   Adolfo Reyes Velázquez
Publish Date: 03/29/2024

Homepage : http://www.dreport.org

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Title : Revisiting Political

Participants:   David Poyer, Political Commentator & Researcher
Publish Date: 03/06/2024

Homepage : http://www.dreport.org

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Topics:  Education, Teaching , Gender Social Construct , Early

Title :  Learning to teach about gender social constructs: A

Participants:   Cathi Miller,  Educator

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Topics:  Education,  Teaching, Artificial General  Intelligence, AI, ChatGPT, Philosophy,  Anthropology

Title : AI and Education: Wisdom to question the nature

Participants:   Tony  Kashani

Homepage : http://www.dreport.org

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Topics:  Education, Inclusion,  teaching  and  teaching practices.

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