📚 Currently reading (Jo): “These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI” and a paper about ‘culturally responsive teaching’ from Raspberry Pi

📖 I’m in the middle of reading Rolling Stone’s recent (12 August 2023) article “These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI” and think there will be lots of information in there and ideas for sparking classroom discussion, particularly for older secondary pupils. The article very clearly shows how our own backgrounds (and biases) might affect how we feel about AI and which potential doom-laden aspects of it might worry us more. The article’s tagline is “Today the risks of artificial intelligence are clear — but the warning signs have been there all along.”

📖 Next on my reading pile is Raspberry Pi’s “Using a Sociological Lens to Investigate Computing Teachers’ Culturally Responsive Classroom Practices” by Yujeong Hwang, Anjali Das, Jane Waite and Sue Sentance (I’ve previously worked with the last two authors) – which they shared at a recent conference.

See also Raspberry Pi’s ‘Guide to culturally relevant and responsive computing in the classroom‘ (16-pg PDF) and their 2-page Pedagogy Quick Read on the topic, and Sue Sentance’s blog post from 2021 “Delivering a culturally relevant computing curriculum: new guide for teachers“.