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Talking with machines

by Mark Corbett Wilson

Communicating through language, images, maps, and tools

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Episodes

  1. Advocacy, access, equity, and support for students and faculty, as AI is adopted in a multicultural urban college.

    A conversation with Chris Weidenbach, an English professor at Laney College in Oakland, California, and the longtime chair of the English department. We are joined by professors Tom Haymes and Bryan Alexander to discuss our experiences teaching, learning and using “AI.” Our conversation started...

  2. Storytelling, Education, and AI in this Chaotic Political Moment

    A conversation with Joe Lambert, an innovator of telling stories using digital technologies, educator, and co-founder of StoryCenter.org (originally the Center for Digital Storytelling), about his work in these unsettled times. We are joined by professors Tom Haymes and Bryan Alexander to discuss...

  3. Artificial Intelligence, Abolition, and Luxury Surveillance

    A conversation with Dr. Chris Gilliard, Co-Director of The Critical Internet Studies Institute, about his approach to writing, privacy, and “artificial intelligence.” We are joined by professors Tom Haymes and Bryan Alexander to discuss our experiences teaching and learning, and Chris starts by...

  4. Intentionally Equitable Hospitality as Critical Instructional Design

    A conversation with Dr. Maha Bali about “Intentionally Equitable Hospitality” (IEH) and how this professional development journey emerged from her earlier projects Virtually Connecting and Equity Unbound. A professor of practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University…

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  5. Challenges in higher education from a new federal administration

    This episode of “Talking with machines” features a conversation with Professor Robert Brem from California State University East Bay and the College of Alameda community college. I was joined by Tom Haymes and Bryan Alexander as we discussed recent challenges in higher education, the US…

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  6. Augmented Info, Ethics, and the Duty of Care

    This episode of “Talking with machines” featured a conversation with Stephen Downes. I was joined by Tom Haymes and Bryan Alexander as we discussed “Augmented Info, Ethics, and the Duty of Care.” Stephen touches on his contributions to the origins of Massive Open Online Courses and Connectivism...

  7. Homegrown LLMs and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) technologies

    In today’s conversation Ruben Puentedura acknowledges the limitations of “AI”, shares his research and experience with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) technologies, and talks about the affordances of home grown LLMs (Large Language Models) combined with external resources. We are joined by...

  8. The AI Revolution Will Be Small

    In today’s conversation, I’m again joined by Bryan Alexander and Tom Haymes. We started our discussion around Tom’s recent post “The AI Revolution Will Be Small.” Tom wrote “Bigger is not better in computing technology. Small tech is where the actual power has been over the last 50 years. When we...

  9. AI in Culture with Bryan Alexander and Tom Haymes

    In this premier of the Talking with machines podcast, I’m joined by Bryan Alexander and Tom Haymes. Inspired by Bryan’s recent post “Some notes on how culture is responding to generative AI”, we discuss this horizon scan where Bryan asks, “How are we responding to AI through stories, art…

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  10. The WISR Way

    The Western Institute for Social Research (WISR) is an accredited alternative graduate school in Berkeley, California. I created a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) using Google’s NotebookLM to collect dozens of documents and ‘chat’ about “The WISR Way” - WISR’s personalized learning method...

  11. Stories about digital storytelling: past, present, and futures

    Join Mark and Joe Lambert, co-founder and director of StoryCenter.org, innovators in digital storytelling (formerly the Center for Digital Storytelling). They have been leading digital storytelling workshops that employ storymapping (GIS) and “artificial intelligence” to explore possible futures...

  12. ePortfolios for Lifelong Learners "podcast" generated by NotebookLM

    Using Google’s NotebookLM, I added 50 eportfolio documents from my Drive. They were mostly journal articles. I included slides from a seminar I gave and a document I generated using Calude.ai. Then I used NotebookLM’s new “Audio Overview” feature to create this “podcast”. The LLM did a pretty…

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  13. Earthquake on live ds106Radio

    Earthquake! Talking with machines by Mark Corbett Wilson @mcorbettwilson on social media

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Communicating through language, images, maps, and tools

HOSTED BY

Mark Corbett Wilson

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