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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?

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?

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?

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:

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?

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?

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?

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?  

Topics:  Education, Inclusion,  teaching  and  teaching practices. Title : Someone Who Teaches: Education and Inclusion Participants:   Alejandra Publish Date: 02/01/2023 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound 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?

Topic:  Immigration  Detention Centers, Segment: Ending Immigration Detention Centers: Until all of us free none of us are free. Participants:  Hilda Cruz, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity                         Reverend  Jeffery Ryan , The Riverside Center for Spiritual Living Broadcast Air Date: 11/15/19 Time: 5:15 PM (PST) Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA KUCR station page: http://www.kucr.org Archive pages: https://soundcloud.com/stoppretending, http://www.dreport.org Send comments about this segment to: [email protected] Segment produced in KUCR, the radio station of the University California in Riverside. Disclaimer: The views expressed are the sole responsibility of the respective speakers and do not represent the endorsed position of the UC Regents, UC Riverside or KUCR. Discussion Topics: -What is the relationship between the imprisonment of people and the subject of immigration? -What is the difference between an immigrant detention facility and general prison facilities? – Why are asylum seekers placed in detention centers? – The detention  facility in Adelanto  California  holds approximately 2,000 people. -The Adelanto  detention facility is a for profit facility that charges $120 a day for each person. -The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is funded  by public   federal  money and then DHS contracts with  private detention centers. – Do people in the detention centers have legal representation? -How does the non-visibility of detention centers facilitate their continual operation of violence? -How to we turn the hidden into the visible? -What are the alternatives to having people caged in detention centers? –  Will AB32 terminate the renewal of contracts of detention centers in California? -Will the Adelanto Detention Center  close with the passing of AB32? – What are the different systems that profit from manufacturing harm for people? -How do we create a just world where we truly feel safe? – We all have our own gifts as humans. – Why are people    held in  detention centers paid a 1 dollar a day for their work? – What is the nature of health care within detention centers? – How do  “instant noodle” soup companies  and telephone service providers benefit from the detention centers? – The bonds for release from detention centers can cost 30,000? – How does the pain being caused within the detention centers ripple out to our communities? – How do we envision a world that works for everyone? -Until all of us are free none of us are free.

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

Topics:  Indigenous  Activisms,  Mesoamerica, Environmentalism, Land rights Title : Alianza Mesoamericana:  Voces Indígenas en  Defensa de  bosques  y Pueblos/  MesoAmerican Aliance: Indigenous Voices  in Defense of Forests and  People  ( Spanish and English audio) Participants:   Levi Sucre, Coordinador de  Alianza  Mesoamericana de Pueblos  y Bosques Publish Date:  03/01/2022 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Conversation Topics: Mesoamerican Aliance: Indigenous Voices in Defense of Forests and  People AMPB Como nace  la organizacion ( Alianza  Mesoamericana de Pueblos  y Bosques)? Autoridad y derechos indígenas de proteger sus territorios ¿Quién tiene derechos legales sobre   protección de territorios indígenas? ¿Cuándo los países marcaron territorios no consultaron a comunidades indígenas? Hay una defensa de la naturaleza desde la cosmovisión indígena. Derechos   humas incluye   el   derecho a una relación completa nuestro ambiente natural. ¿Porque intentan países y corporaciones separar la definición indígena de territorios ancestrales? El mapa de Mesoamérica nos muestra   que las comunidades indígenas estas donde los bosques se encuentran. Hay  iniciativas de producción alternatives porque las comunidades indígenas  son los primeros afectos por el cambio climático y poder defender los  bosques. Las comunidades indígenas en todo el mundo comparten las mismas amenazas. Cuál es la diferencia entre ver las comunidades indígenas actuales versus comunidad indígenas romantizadas.

Topics:   College Attendance, UC Berkeley,  First  Generation College Students, COVID and College Title : College and Community During COVID (a year later). Participants:  Zion Rodriguez Aceves Publish Date: 10/14/2021 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Conversation Topics: You can listen to the last  year’s conversation here:  Graduating During Covid-19 College and Schooling during time of COVID ( a year later). How did students prepare to enter college during the stress and uncertainty of a quarantine? What was your experience of first year of college, while online? Is going to college online similar to going away to college with everyone that you know? Are second-year college students attending college in-person for the first time, behind or delayed in building new communities? How  did the online format become an asset by getting the college curriculum  without having to leave the community of support behind? The online format allowed us to include our families into the class. What are the difficulties for technically second year-students, moving to college to attend in-person for their first year? How do we prepare to adjust to the shift from online to in-person college experiences? What happens  when the university treats you as a second-year student, but  it’s your first-year on campus? What are foundations acquired during the first year of college attendance? Figuring things out together. How is campus life different during  COVID? Do students wear masks on college campuses? How do teachers feel about being in class with so many students? Is there a college social life during COVID? What are the different college retention factors for students? Is UC Berkely a radical school? Are colleges open to hear from new voices?

Topic: Identification  Labels,  Race Deconstruction Participants: Daisy Ocampo, PhD, Historian Segment: D Report Broadcast Air Date: 10/11/2013 Time: 5:15 PM (PST) KUCR station page: http://www.kucr.org Archive page: https://soundcloud.com/stoppretending Discussion Points What happens when labels do not fit? Who is included in the Hispanic label? Is Hispanic the same a Latino? Why do people accept imposed categories of identification? When was the Hispanic label adopted by the US government? How do we people learn to become Hispanic? How do indigenous people challenge the Hispanic category?

Topics:  Sara Omi,  Embera,  eco-pedagogy,  environmental activism,  Coordinadora de Mujeres Líderes Territoriales de Mesoamérica Title : Conversación con Sara Omi: Mujeres indígenas y activismo ambiental de Mesoamérica Participants:    Sara Omi,  Coordinadora de Mujeres Líderes Territoriales de Mesoamérica Publish Date: 09/15/21 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on:  RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Temas de Conversación: Conversation Topics: ¿Como nace la coordinación de mujeres lideres territoriales de Mesoamérica? Alianza de pueblos y bosques Las voces de mujeres son necesarias dentro del dialogo e protección Ambiental local e internacional ¿Cuáles temas se introducen al poner las voces de mujeres dentro del movimiento de protección al medio ambiente? Mujeres indígenas son afectadas con mayor impacto por cambio climático. ¿Comunidades indígenas son romantizadas por el estado, pero no necesariamente políticamente respetadas? Las comunidades indígenas tienen soluciones para combatir los riesgos al cambio climático. Las mujeres indígenas continúan la lucha para ser reconocidas en contexto local e internacional ¿Eco pedagogía incluí las voces indígenas? Cuáles son los programas implementados por comunidades indígenas para salvar el planeta. Women maintain the cultural knowledge such as medicine and  land  management as best practices to build a healthy  planet for everyone (including non-indigenous). The COVID pandemic caused the loss of any elders with great cultural knowledge that needs to be recovered and protected. Recover the lost forests by planting trees to preserve our cosmovision. Se busca alianza con hermanas y hermanos indígenas en las Américas y mundo. Sin las comunidades indígenas no se pueden avanzar las soluciones ante daño climático.