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A weekly topical conversation. A dialogue at the intersection of Anthropology, Education, Ethnic Studies and Law. Host: Daniel

  1. Questioning The Oracle: Rethinking AI, the classroom, and ourselves as educators

    05/17/2025

    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 Also available on: Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundcloud 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?

    52 min
  2. Manifesting Our Future: A Conversation with Miguel Najera

    03/12/2025

    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 Also available on: Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound 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?

    37 min
  3. Language, Culture and Perceptions of Our Worlds: Towards an awareness of being more human(e).

    01/21/2025

    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: Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound 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?

    49 min
  4. The Stars Aligned: A conversation with writer of Korean American Witches Society

    06/08/2024

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

    Topics:  Film,  Writing, Representation, Story telling Title : The Stars Aligned: A conversation with writer of Korean American Witches Society Participants:   Jennifer Kim,   Writer, Film maker, Journalist and former Teacher Publish Date: 06/08/2024 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Conversation Topics:

    1h 16m
  5. Inteligencia Artificial: Sera o no será humana

    03/30/2024

    Inteligencia Artificial: Sera o no será humana

    Topics:  AI, Inteligencia Artificial, Antropología, Humanidad, Sociedad Title : Inteligencia Artificial: Sera o  no será humana Participants:   Adolfo Reyes VelázquezPublish Date: 03/29/2024 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound 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?

    1 hr
  6. Revisiting Political Conversations: Translating the macro geo-political actions to our daily lived experiences

    03/05/2024

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

    Topics:  Politics, 2024 Election Title : Revisiting Political Conversations:  Translating the macro geo-political action to our daily lived experiences Participants:   David Poyer, Political Commentator & ResearcherPublish Date: 03/06/2024 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound 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?

    54 min
  7.   Learning to teach about gender social constructs: A conversation in early childhood education

    12/28/2023

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

    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 ResearcherPublish Date: 12/ 27/2023 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Conversation Topics: What are the different perspectives on the meaning of gender? What are the societal roles of gender?  How is gender projected onto our bodies?  Is gendered language being marked when we say ” daughter and or son?” Why don’t we say “my child” instead of defining relationship through gender?  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? 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 when 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?

    45 min
  8. AI and Education: Wisdom to question the nature of education

    09/13/2023

    AI and Education: Wisdom to question the nature of education

    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, PhilosopherPublish Date: 09/ 13/2023 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org    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?

    47 min
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A weekly topical conversation. A dialogue at the intersection of Anthropology, Education, Ethnic Studies and Law. Host: Daniel

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    2020 - 2025
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