UNIPD Team

Lost in AI

Education EN ↓ 7 episodes

How can educators resist getting lost in AI when its promise of simplicity masks deep shifts in power, meaning and agency? And how can they decipher what these tools truly allow, constrain and quietly reshape in the everyday life of teaching and learning. Like being “lost in translation”, navigating AI in education often means missing what lies beneath the surface. This podcast offers short episodes, sharp insights and honest reflections on what we can and should/should not do with AI in teaching and learning. We explore how ethics grounds practice, showing that “using AI for good” is always s...

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Insights to the backstage of the ETH-TECH OER production 18.06.2026 17:05

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...

Using AI: How can it impact students’ lives? 18.05.2026 11:17

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...

At the Midpoint: Between Progress and Possibility, Partners in Cluj-Napoca 15.04.2026 27:00

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...

Exploring the ETH-TECH OER concept: Approach, Development, Goals & Next Steps 17.03.2026 14:09

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 (...

Voices on Ethics and AI 13.02.2026 24:35

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...

A critical perspective on DigComp 3.0 13.01.2026 21:42

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...

The ethics of AI and data in education: universal guidelines, local perspectives 18.12.2025 16:49

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...