Black-Liberation.Tech

Renée Jordan, Ph.D.
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Black-Liberation.Tech: Academic & Career Coaching for the Digital Age Your academic and career journey shouldn't require leaving your culture at the door. Tailored for high-achieving Latinas, Afro-Latinas, Black women, and girls, the Black-Liberation.Tech podcast is your strategic guide to navigating school (Grades 6–PhD), career pivots, and the evolving tech landscape. Hosted by Dr. Renée Jordan—an ecosystem builder, educator, and instructional technologist—this podcast transforms complex tech concepts and institutional roadblocks into practical, everyday strategies. Whether you are a DIY learner advocating for yourself in elite spaces, an early-stage professional charting your career, or a mother guiding her daughter's future, this is your space. Tune in as we tackle: AI Literacy & Prompt Engineering: How to use AI as a personal thinking buddy to reduce cognitive load, rather than a shortcut. DIY Learning Strategies: How to navigate challenging classes, ask the hard questions, and survive the "messy middle" without burning out. Academic & Career Strategy: Securing scholarships, building portfolios, and identifying your non-negotiables early on. Grounded in the African philosophy of Ubuntu ("I am because we are"), this podcast is a tool for collective liberation. Stop merely consuming technology and start creating your future. Listen in to build your skills, and join an ecosystem committed to your success. Explore the Black-Liberation.Tech Ecosystem: Access the Free Open Educational Resource (OER): Black-Liberation.Tech Join the Patreon Community for Exclusive Coaching: patreon.com/BlackLiberationTech Partner with Jordan Nuance LLC for Your Organization: jordan-nuance.com

  1. 22h ago

    Reading Is Thinking

    AI Can Help You Read—But It Can't Do the Thinking for You What happens after AI explains a difficult reading? In this episode of AI for Academic Success, Dr. Renée Jordan completes the Module 1 walkthrough by exploring Janiyah GPT's response to Ashley's Excellence Exploration, featuring Latinas, Afro-Latinas, and Black women whose reading, research, curiosity, scholarship, and lifelong learning contributed to discovery, leadership, and community change. Then, the focus shifts away from prompting AI and back to the learner. Through the Scholar Reflection, Learning Connection, and “Try It Like Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson” activity, we explore active reading, noticing confusion, creating a Reading Reflection Log, asking AI for targeted support, checking understanding, and reflecting on growth. The central lesson: AI can support the reading process, but reading is still thinking—and that thinking belongs to you.

    Reading Is Thinking

  2. Aug 31

    Exploring Excellence Through Reading, Research & Curiosity

    What can the lives and work of accomplished women teach us about becoming stronger learners? In Part 5 of the AI for Academic Success Module 1 walkthrough, Dr. Renée Jordan continues the conversation with Jasmine and Janiyah GPT through an Excellence Exploration. This time, AI is prompted to identify Latinas, Afro-Latinas, and Black women whose reading, research, scholarship, scientific inquiry, writing, and lifelong learning contributed to discovery, innovation, leadership, education, and community change. The exploration introduces Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, Ellen Ochoa, Dr. María Elena Bottazzi, Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, Dr. Alexa Canady, and Dr. Mae Jemison and considers the learning habits that may have supported their work. But the purpose isn't simply to generate a list of accomplished women. It's to ask a more meaningful question: What can learners take from their approaches to curiosity, careful reading, research, questioning, critical thinking, and lifelong learning—and practice in their own lives today? This episode explores how AI can support culturally responsive learning by helping students make connections between the academic skills they are developing now and people who have used those skills to expand knowledge, challenge barriers, serve communities, and create new possibilities.

    Exploring Excellence Through Reading, Research & Curiosity

  3. Aug 24

    Can AI Help You Think Through Information Overload?

    AI for Academic Success What happens when the challenge isn't finding information—but figuring out what matters? In this episode of AI for Academic Success, Dr. Renée Jordan continues testing the Module 1 tutoring prompt through Jasmine, a composite learner navigating a digital literacy course and the very real challenge of information overload. Using a passage about digital literacy, online information, privacy, and responsible technology use, we examine whether AI can do more than summarize. Can it explain ideas clearly, build useful connections, introduce vocabulary, and ask questions that strengthen a learner's own understanding? Along the way, we explore an important tension: AI can help organize information, but it can also become one more source of information to manage. The goal isn't to have AI do the learning. It's to see whether thoughtful prompting can help a learner move from more information to better understanding—while keeping the learner responsible for questioning, evaluating, and deciding. How to use AI for academic success; using ChatGPT as a tutor not an answer machine; AI and information overload for students; how students can evaluate online information; digital literacy and artificial intelligence; responsible AI use for students; using AI to understand difficult concepts; how to use ChatGPT without replacing learning; AI tutoring and critical thinking; managing too much information online

    Can AI Help You Think Through Information Overload?

  4. Aug 20

    AI as a Reading Coach: Putting the Homework Help Lab to the Test

    AI as a Reading Coach: Putting the Homework Help Lab to the Test | AI for Academic Success What happens when we move from talking about responsible AI use to actually putting it into practice? In this episode of the Black-Liberation.Tech Podcast, Dr. Renée Jordan begins a test run of the AI for Academic Success: Homework Help Lab by stepping into representative learner perspectives from the Black-Liberation.Tech ecosystem. Using Ashley's composite learning scenario, we explore an AP Environmental Science prompt focused on environmental justice, community health, climate change, and fairness. Rather than asking AI to summarize a reading or provide an answer, the prompt positions AI as a reading coach—helping the learner unpack vocabulary, make connections, consider why a concept matters, and check her own understanding. Along the way, we explore a larger question at the heart of AI literacy: Can AI help us understand something more deeply without doing the thinking for us? This episode demonstrates what it can look like to use AI as a tutor and thinking partner—not a replacement for reading, reasoning, curiosity, or learner judgment. Ashley and Jasmine represent composite learning scenarios created for educational demonstration. They are not real student records or graded assignments. How to use AI to understand difficult readings; using AI as a tutor instead of an answer machine; AI reading comprehension prompts for students; responsible AI use for homework; environmental justice AP Environmental Science; using ChatGPT for studying without cheating; culturally responsive AI literacy

    AI as a Reading Coach: Putting the Homework Help Lab to the Test

  5. Aug 17

    AI as Your Reading Coach

    Read with Curiosity, Learn Through Questions What if asking questions while you read isn't a sign that you don't understand—but evidence that you're actively learning? In this episode of the Black-Liberation.Tech AI for Academic Success series, Dr. Renée Jordan enters the Homework Help Lab and begins putting the workbook's learning strategies into practice. First, meet the Homework Help Lab Scholars and Nevaeh, a learner beginning to discover how artificial intelligence can serve as a thinking partner. Then meet Rosario, whose story introduces the first learning strategy: reading with questions. Through the Help Me Understand What I Read activity, Dr. Jordan explores how learners can prompt AI to help them identify important vocabulary, define key terms, make connections to what they already know, understand why ideas matter, and generate questions that check their understanding. The episode also examines an important boundary: AI should support the reading process, not replace it. Learners remain responsible for reading the source material, evaluating AI's explanations, protecting private or restricted information, and doing the thinking necessary to build their own understanding. Because strong readers don't need to have all the answers. They remain curious enough to keep asking better questions.

    AI as Your Reading Coach

  6. Aug 14 ·  Bonus

    You Don’t Have to Have Everything Figured Out

    In this bonus episode of the Black-Liberation.Tech podcast, we take a look at Hope + Clarity + Possibility, Dr. Renée Jordan and Laura Spale, host of "The Clarity Lens" podcast, explore uncertainty, reinvention, career pivots, identity, and the pressure to have life figured out. Through personal stories and reflection, they consider how curiosity, movement, and thoughtful use of AI can help us navigate seasons when the next step is not yet clear. You don’t need the entire roadmap. Sometimes you just need enough clarity to take the next thoughtful step.

    You Don’t Have to Have Everything Figured Out

  7. Aug 13

    Using AI as a Thinking Partner, Not a Replacement

    What happens when the workshop ends—but you stay for the credits? In this introductory episode of the Black-Liberation.Tech podcast’s AI for Academic Success series, Dr. Renée Jordan introduces the AI for Academic Success: Homework Help Lab workbook—an “Easter egg” originally created for learners who reached the end of the AG-STEM Career Exploration workshop. Learn how the workbook was developed through instructional design, research, contributor insights, and collaboration with generative AI tools. Dr. Jordan also discusses its Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, introduces Janiyah GPT as an AI learning companion, and explains how to use the workbook. Most importantly, this episode establishes a principle that will guide the entire series: AI is a thinking partner, not a replacement. AI can help learners understand difficult concepts, ask questions, organize information, practice skills, and receive feedback—but curiosity, judgment, creativity, lived experience, and voice remain with the learner. The goal isn't simply to finish faster. The goal is to learn.

    Using AI as a Thinking Partner, Not a Replacement

  8. Aug 6

    Turning Interests Into Impact

    What if choosing a career isn't just about what you want to do—but about the problems you want to help solve? In this episode of the Black-Liberation.Tech Podcast, we continue our Ag-STEM Career Discovery Lab Walkthrough with Step 8: Community Impact Challenge. Career exploration is about more than finding a job. It is about discovering how your interests, talents, and future career can contribute to your community and help solve real-world challenges. In this episode, we explore how Ag-STEM careers can address issues such as food insecurity, environmental justice, climate resilience, community health, and economic opportunity in underserved communities. Using examples such as Community Food Systems Planner, Public Health and Agricultural Data Scientist, and Community Resilience Planner, we examine how professionals combine science, technology, agriculture, data, policy, and community engagement to create positive change. Listeners will learn how to: • Connect personal interests to community needs • Explore careers that create social impact • Understand how Ag-STEM careers improve quality of life • Examine the role of AI, technology, and data in community problem-solving • Reflect on how their own skills and passions can contribute to a better future Most importantly, this episode encourages learners to see themselves not only as future professionals, but also as future problem-solvers, innovators, advocates, and community leaders. Reflection Questions: • Which community challenge interests you most? • How might your talents help address that challenge? • What role could you imagine yourself playing? • How could technology support your efforts? • What impact would you like your future career to have on your community? Because career exploration is not only about what you do. It is also about who you help and the difference you make. Explore the Black-Liberation.Tech Ecosystem: Access the Free Open Educational Resource (OER): Black-Liberation.TechJoin the Patreon Community for Exclusive Coaching: patreon.com/BlackLiberationTechPartner with Jordan Nuance LLC for Your Organization: jordan-nuance.com

    Turning Interests Into Impact
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Black-Liberation.Tech: Academic & Career Coaching for the Digital Age Your academic and career journey shouldn't require leaving your culture at the door. Tailored for high-achieving Latinas, Afro-Latinas, Black women, and girls, the Black-Liberation.Tech podcast is your strategic guide to navigating school (Grades 6–PhD), career pivots, and the evolving tech landscape. Hosted by Dr. Renée Jordan—an ecosystem builder, educator, and instructional technologist—this podcast transforms complex tech concepts and institutional roadblocks into practical, everyday strategies. Whether you are a DIY learner advocating for yourself in elite spaces, an early-stage professional charting your career, or a mother guiding her daughter's future, this is your space. Tune in as we tackle: AI Literacy & Prompt Engineering: How to use AI as a personal thinking buddy to reduce cognitive load, rather than a shortcut. DIY Learning Strategies: How to navigate challenging classes, ask the hard questions, and survive the "messy middle" without burning out. Academic & Career Strategy: Securing scholarships, building portfolios, and identifying your non-negotiables early on. Grounded in the African philosophy of Ubuntu ("I am because we are"), this podcast is a tool for collective liberation. Stop merely consuming technology and start creating your future. Listen in to build your skills, and join an ecosystem committed to your success. Explore the Black-Liberation.Tech Ecosystem: Access the Free Open Educational Resource (OER): Black-Liberation.Tech Join the Patreon Community for Exclusive Coaching: patreon.com/BlackLiberationTech Partner with Jordan Nuance LLC for Your Organization: jordan-nuance.com

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  • Creator
    Renée Jordan, Ph.D.
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    118
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Black-Liberation.Tech