Evolving Adult Literacies: Preparing Learners for the Future

In today’s episode, we’re exploring ethics as a form of literacy in the age of artificial intelligence. As AI tools show up in classrooms, workplaces, and everyday life, questions about bias, privacy, transparency, and accountability are no longer abstract, they shape who gets opportunities, who is left out, and how decisions are made about our lives. Together, we’ll look at how AI can reproduce h...

Understanding AI isn't just about technology. It's about protecting our ability to think, learn, communicate, and build relationships while using AI as a helpful tool. In today's episode we're going to take a closer look at what they are, how they work, and how they've changed with the introduction of AI. Algorithms are working behind the scenes every time we use our phones, browse the internet, s...

In this episode, we explore why play, experimentation, and “hard fun” are powerful ways to learn with AI, not just about it. Episode 2, Play, Curiosity, and Human Strengths in AI Learning, looks at curiosity as a core human strength that drives discovery, innovation, and lifelong learning, and connects it to playful, hands-on approaches inspired by Seymour Papert’s ideas of learning through “hard...

 In this conversation, we explore what it really means to turn data into information, and information into knowledge in practical, human terms. Kate helps us unpack ideas like computational thinking and coding in simple ways, showing how they’re not just technical skills, but natural extensions of literacy, and learning to communicate and connect with machines. We also dig into what humans bring t...