Educators - Nate Madson Dion

Nate Madson Dion, a fifth grade math teacher from Aurora, Colorado, schools Josh and Ray on how technology has crept into primary schools, how the inevitability narrative manifests with teachers and administrators, and how he has found effective ways to resist, both through one on one conversations with fellow educators, but also around the bargaining table for his union's contract. Nate puts out a call for parents to contact their local school boards, find out how AI is being deployed in their children's schools, and more importantly, how to opt out of it.

Mentioned in this episode:

1. Bullshit Jobs - book by David Graeber
2. Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out. - article in Wired [permalink]
3. How to engage in pseudoscience with real data: A criticism of John Hattie’s arguments in Visible Learning from the perspective of a statistician - article in the McGill Journal of Education [permalink]
4. Writing vs AI - article by Cory Doctorow [permalink]
5. Politechs Season 1 Episode 6 - Programmers - Josh and Ray talk about how to talk to programmers about AI.