AI, Tech & Data in Education

Host Manuela Arciniegas (Communities for Just Schools Fund) sits down with Marika Pfefferkorn, the Co-Founder, Solutions and Sustainability Officer, & Executive Director of the Midwest Center for School Transformation, and Aasim Shabazz, Co-founder and President of Twin Cities Innovation Alliance (TCIA). In this episode, Marika Pfefferkorn and Aasim Shabazz discuss how large language models and algorithms, known as AI, connect with the use of data as tools for surveillance and criminalization of students in schools and communities. They invite us into exploring the shifts systems and communities must make at the cultural, political, and practice level to live into Afro-Indigenous futures where youth and communities have the power to design and use technology for the public good.

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