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?

• 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,  Writing, Representation, Story telling

Title : The Stars Aligned: A conversation with writer and producer of Korean American Witches Society

Participants: Jennifer Kim,  Writer, Producer, Film maker, Journalist and former Teacher

Publish Date: 06/08/2024

Topics: AI, Inteligencia Artificial, Antropología,

Title : Inteligencia Artificial: Ser o no ser Humano

Participants: Adolfo Reyes Velázquez

Publish Date: 03/29/2024

Homepage : http://www.dreport.org

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Conversation Topics:

• ¿Qué es la inteligencia artificial y de qué manera nos trastoca eso que le llamamos realidad?

• Cuale es el efecto de la inteligencia artificial en el ser humano?

• ¿Qué es la inteligencia?

• ¿Todos podemos ser inteligentes si democratizamos las definiciones?

• Los programas de “inteligencias artificiales” son una emulación- no son inteligente.

• Cuál es la relación entre el concepto/ definición de inteligencia y la definición de ser humano?

• ¿Qué es el Turing test?

• ¿Cuál es la inteligencia empática?

• ¿En que se basa el miedo de ser reemplazados por “inteligencias artificiales?”

• ¿Cuál es la definición de ser humano en relación a su contexto cultural?

• ¿Es posible que estamos proyectando nuestros sistemas de desigualdad sociales a la inteligencia artificial?

• ¿El ser humano es racional y libre?

• ¿La tecnología nos va a alienar y deshumanizar?

• ¿Como nos ayuda la tecnología para ser nos mas consientes de nuestra individualidad?

Topics: Politics, 2024 Election

Title : Revisiting Political Conversations: Translating the macro geo-political action to our daily lived experiences

Participants: David Poyer, Political Commentator & Researcher

Publish Date: 03/10/2024

Homepage : http://www.dreport.org

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Conversation Topics:

• What is the role of the Supreme court to curate the 20204 presidential election?

• What is the John Robert’s court?

• Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.

• How do we make sense of multiple conversations?

• What perspectives can we use to understand the dialogue, conflict and moment?

• What is the divide between conservative versus progressive, right versus left?

• What president started the environmental protection agency? Answer: Richard M. Nixon

• Did Richard Nixon propose a single payer medical system in the 1970’s?

• Is being pro- business, pro-military and faith-based on the markers of being on the right?

• Is Donald Trump asking for reset regarding the US-Russia relations characterized as pro-Russia?

• Why do people think the left and right are different if they overlap on many issues?

• Is the political decision simplified to Trump or not Trump?

• Why do both parties agree to fund supporting wars abroad?

• Have we become country that is comfortable with “low intensity regional conflicts?”

• Why is it difficult to translate the macro geo-political action and the effects to micro, daily lived experiences in our respective communities?

• What analysis tool or tools can we use to make sense of all the different conversations?

• What is the opportunity- cost to our political decisions?

• How do the higher cost of cheeseburgers translate to how people vote?

• Energy and food costs are the types of things that get people kicked out of the office.

• What is purchasing price parity, PPP?

• At what point does the system of winners and looser become transparent? At what point are we able to identify the specific groups that are winning?

Topics: Education, Teaching , Gender Social Construct , Early Childhood Education

Title : Learning to teach about gender social constructs: A conversation in early childhood education

Participants: Cathi Miller, Educator and Researcher

Publish Date: 12/ 272023

Homepage : http://www.dreport.org

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Conversation Topics:

What are the different perspectives on gender?

What are the societal roles of gender?

How is gender projected onto our bodies?

Is language gender being marked when we say daughter and or son?

Does Nahuatl mark gender in its language?

How does gender permeate our relationships with our loved ones?

At what age do we learn the gender divide?

How do you address gender professionally and personally?

How are babies and adults treated differently based on assumptions of gender?

“We talk about [ gender] being a societal role but [ gender] is also the lens through which we view relationships and how interact with people and how we interact with people and how we think about people… I wish it wasn’t that way.”

What is the relationship between the sex we are assigned at birth and our gender?

What is the role of teachers in reinforcing or challenging gender?

What have we learned about this practice of education addressing gender?

How do you explain gender as a social construct?

Is the division of gender unequal?

What are development appropriate practices in early childhood education?

How do educators demonstrate their respect for every child?

How can educators find a balance between professional and personal responsibilities?

Is the first Gender and Equity Childhood course in the country being taught in Santa Monica community college by Professor Cathi Miller?

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

Title : AI and Education: Wisdom to question the nature of education

Participants: Tony Kashani Ph.D., Educator, Author, Philosopher

Publish Date: 09/ 13/2023

Homepage : http://www.dreport.org

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Quote:

“In order for these new tools, very powerful potent tools to become a tool of education… you have to go and become the expert. And then we [will] have those tools in our hand.” – Tony Kashani

Conversation Topics:

• How will Artificial General Intelligence transform our society?

• How has AI affected the classroom?

• What is Artificial General Intelligence ( AGI)?

• What is the application of AI to the field of Education?

• What are the misunderstandings of what AI means, is capable of doing and or cannot do?

• What do the people that educate educators think about AI?

• What are the three types of AI? ( i.e., Generative AI, Image Generative AI (GAN), Reinforcement Learning AI)

• Can AI address questions of digital divide and concerns of unequal control over the resource?

• How does the conversation change if we consider AI as a continuation of a long process of automating human labor?

• What are the bases of our fears over AI?

• In the age of AI, can teachers prepare students to succeed in the society of their adult hood?

• Is ChatGPT making students dumber?

• How do educators respond to the potential of AI to hurt students?

• Can ChatGPT replace teachers?

• “ The [AI] machines are not like humans. They do not have emotional intelligence. They cannot build relationships with students… [Education] need[s] humans… We need human connection. [human connection] is an absolute necessity for teaching and learning.”

• “In order for these new tools, very powerful potent tools to become a tool of education… you have to go and become the expert. And then we [ will] have those tools in our hand.” – Tony Kashani

• What are the possibilities for transforming teaching if educators are in charge of AI?

• What is the nature of education?

• Can machines ever replicate the capabilities of great human teachers?

• Who will decide the future of education?

• Is AI able to transmit wisdom?

• Will people become dissatisfied with the system that depends on AI?

• Who holds the keys to control AI?

• What are the ethical questions concerning AI and education?

• What is our educational ikigai?

• How do we embrace the absurdity of our existence?

Topics: Education, Inclusion, teaching and teaching practices.

Title : Someone Who Teaches: Education and Inclusion

Participants: Alejandra

Publish Date: 02/22/2023

Homepage : http://www.dreport.org

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Conversation Topics:

Education updates?

Revisiting a conversation on Education.

What is the RICA exam in teaching? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_Instruction_Competence_Assessment

Does passing the RICA exam make us better teachers and or help with job security?

How is teacher in Cleveland Ohio different from teaching in Los Angeles California?

What does it mean to mentor teachers?

What does inclusion mean in teaching and or classroom formats?

What does it mean to be white passing in Cleveland Ohio?

What happens if you don’t “ clear “ your teaching credential within five years?

Why doesn’t Ohio accept the California teaching credential?

What are signs of teacher burnout?

How do you know when it is necessary to exit the teaching profession?

How did the 2020 COVID pandemic change the teaching practice?

What does going back to “ normal” mean for teachers and students?

What is remote learning?

What do we do if we are part of a group that do not want things to go back to the way things were before the pandemic?

“Inclusion is not program. It’s a way. Its and idea of how you want to build this culture . It’s an understanding of how you are going approach a student, and a family and staff. And how you are going to support them to make a more inclusive classroom and then school and community “

What do you think about when you hear the term inclusion?

Is disability a social construct?

Is inclusion about resources?

What happens when you go to work , but you see the system as more complicated than “they” want you to see it?

Why do teacher leave the teaching profession?

How did the 2020 COVID pandemic change the teaching profession?

What are the disabilities that are not visible?

What is emotional disturbance?

How do we reference our experiences in a dissociative form to critique ourselves?

How do we figure out how to be ourselves within a k-12 setting?

What are the characteristics of a true educator?

What does it mean to be someone who teaches, even when they don’t have an official title of a teacher?

Topics: Hopi & Dine , Semiconductor design, STEM, Indigenous women in the semiconductor and computer science

Title : Dine & Hopi Women: Semiconductor Weavers

Participants: Vanesha Honani and Nicholas Rajen

Publish Date: 09/07/2022

Homepage : http://www.dreport.org

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Conversation Topics:

What does a QA engineer do?

What is the Fairchild plant project story?

Native and indigenous community were naturally engineers?

What is the story of Hopi women in Semiconductor manufacturing?

Who is Richard Feynman?

Where is California Indian Nations College?

What is the relationship between semiconductor circuitry design and Navajo tapestry design?

What are the different narratives about our respective communities?

Have the STEM fields always been considered spaces for white men only?

What is the story of indigenous women in the semiconductor and computer science field?

How many Native Americans participate in coding?

How do we incorporate our community traditions into our professional spaces?

How has the semiconductor shaped our current reality?

What are the roles of women in STEM?

Women have been left out of recognition from the great discoveries?

What is Rosalind Franklin relation to discovery of DNA Molecule?

Emmy Noether mathematician

What is role of the semiconductor in our lives?

How did a Fairchild’s semiconductor factory end up in the Navajo reservation?

What is the relationship between the Hopi weaving design and the final semiconductor design?

How do we connect the history of colonialism, Native communities, and the Fairchild’s semiconductor factory placement on a reservation to employ native women?

Why did Hewlett Packard (HP) follow the Fairchild project of establishing manufacturing plants Hopi and Navajo land?

Why do we need to understand the history of colonialism to understand why the Fairchild semiconductor plant was built on a Native American reservation?

Were the semiconductor engineers inspired by the native American sand paintings?

Why are the resources of Hopi and Navajo nations quantified and targeted by corporations?

Did the semiconductor circuit design copy the Navajo rug design?

When did the American Indian Movement take over the Fairchild semiconductor plant?