Lost in AI

In this podcast episode, we share insights to the backstage of the ETH-TECH OER production in 2025/2026. Join ETH-TECH team member Sigrid Hartong and three students (Saskia, Celina, Svea) from Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg who collectively reflect on their journey towards imagining, crafting and testing the OERs in the context of a university seminar, as well as in the European network of the...

While educators are still questioning how and if to use AI in the classroom, and even whether it can be done ethically, one thing is certain: AI is already a part of students’ lives. When conducting Awareness Raising Sessions with students from Babeș-Bolyai University in May 2025, this became abundantly clear. Not only are students using AI in their professional and academic lives, but they also r...

This episode is based on the second partners’ meeting in Cluj-Napoca, marking a pivotal midpoint in the project’s journey. At this stage, partners reflect on progress to date and consider upcoming challenges and opportunities, combining critical reflection with a forward-looking perspective that offers a rich snapshot of the project in motion. Framed by an introduction and conclusion from Bogdan G...

In this episode, the focus turns to the Open Educational Resources (OERs), under development within the ETH-TECH project. Through the idea of critical co-design, these materials fully embrace an approach to ethics as a collective practice: a process of exploring dilemmas, acknowledging uncertainty, and reflecting together on how technologies shape teaching and learning. In this episode, MED team (...

Beyond official frameworks and formal research outputs, this episode turns to the voices that engage with ETH-TECH from its margins. These are not core designers or lead researchers, but educators, researchers, and practitioners who have taken ETH-TECH into their own contexts, classrooms, and lines of inquiry. Their perspectives matter precisely because they emerge from use, tension, and reinterpr...

The publication of DigComp 3.0, the European Digital Competence Framework, offers a timely occasion to pause and reflect. In this episode, the conversation starts from the release of DigComp 3.0, the European Digital Competence Framework, and uses it as an entry point to reflect more broadly on how ethics, AI, and data are currently framed within European education policy. References: ETH-TECH pro...

AI promises clarity while often generating new opacity. This podcast traces that tension by exploring how global ethical principles collide with the everyday realities of educational practice. Through sharp, accessible episodes grounded in the ETH-TECH project, we examine how European guidelines on AI and data translate into local dilemmas, cultural expectations and institutional constraints. Educ...