D Report

Questioning the Oracle: Rethinking AI, the Classroom, and Ourselves as Educators

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 personal life and in our profession?
  • What happens if we consider AI as magic?
  • What happens if we perceive AI as monster?
  • 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 to be 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? Google Engineer Claims AI Chatbot Is Sentient: Why That Matters
  • 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 their 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 students to have an existential experience with the class material in order to have a meaningful education?

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