imperfect offerings podcast
by Helen Beetham
Thoughts on technology, education and related issues, now direct to your ears. Not always fully formed but never auto-completed. helenbeetham.substack.com
Episodes
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Doug Belshaw on digital and AI literacies
In this episode, I talk to Doug Belshaw, co-founder of We Are Open cooperative, an old friend and sometime sparring partner – I’m sure he won’t mind me saying that. And if you’re here for the AI, we dig into large language models, the need for playful as well as critical spaces, and current AI...
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Talking with Katie Conrad about AI and human rights
Some time ago I invited Katie (Kathryn) Conrad onto a discussion panel in the Generative Dialogues series, and while this covered some essential ground in AI pedagogies, I felt there was a lot more of her work to dig into. So I was delighted she agreed to come onto Imperfect Offerings for a…
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Audrey Watters on AI realism
Audrey Watters returns to the pod for a chat about ‘AI realism’, and how we are all trudging up the long, weary slope of the AI adoption curve whether we believe in the promises or not. What will we find when we reach the ‘plateau of productivity’? Less work and more smarts so we can spend our...
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Remi Kalir on student writing
Remi Kalir is Associate Director of Faculty Development and Applied Research at Duke University and Associate Director of the University’s CARADITE Centre, where many wise ideas about student writing and reading are developed. Since ChatGPT first emerged, he has been working alongside students to...
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Alistair Alexander on unsustainable AI
In the first of several interviews about the impact of generative AI on planetary resources, I talk to Alistair Alexander, an academic and climate activist based in Berlin. He has all the facts about about the power and water costs of the data centres being rolled out ‘for AI’. But he also asks…
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Audrey Watters on AI state capture
As Enterprise AI goes full state capture and as Elon Musk’s freshmen engineers get their hands on all the data of the US federal government, Helen and Audrey team up again to ask: was this always going to be the end game? We look at AI’s 75-year-old relationship with white nationalism, eugenics…
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Audrey Watters on eugenics and robber barons
As we sink further into the pit that is the Musk/Trump presidency, who better to survey the hellscape on the way down than Audrey Watters, ed tech’s sharpest and toughest commentator? If you don’t know Audrey’s work, you really should. You’ll find her Second Breakfast newsletter in the shownotes,...
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Eamon Costello on human wisdom
In this episode I talk with Eamon Costello, writer and thinker and educator, editor of a special issue on Metaphors of AI, and host of an upcoming symposium Education After the Algorithm - where he and I will be speaking in the real. Here we dive into topics from metaphor to metadata, from the AI...
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Catherine Cronin and Laura Czerniwicz on HE for good
In this episode I meet with the editors of Higher Education for Good to discuss how generative AI may be changing the prospects for an equitable and socially-just system of higher education. I ask how they were able to bring an ethic of care to the work of editing, in an academic publishing...
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Dan MacQuillan on decomputing
In this episode I talk to Dan MacQuillan, Lecturer in Creative Computing at Goldsmiths, and author of Resisting AI: an Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence. I read this in 2022, as soon as it was published, and it remains for me one of the most vivid, provocative and relevant…
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