| Interests | Education, social justice, community |
| Languages | English, عربي |
| Follows | Educators, learners, social justice advocates |
| Location | Cairo, Egypt, Africa |
I keep hearing people call legitimate concerns about LLMs/generative AI a "moral panic."
I really hope folks stop using that framing. This is not the same as parents getting freaked out about Dungeons and Dragons in the 1980s. This is a moment when huge, for-profit interests are seeking to exploit the creativity of writers, artists, and anyone else who creates. It's completely legitimate to express concerns. It's not a moment of "Won't someone PLEASE think about the children!?!".
In this podcast, I respond to Matter & Space. If you don't know what it is, you'll find out in the episode how they hope to transform edu with AI (and how I question that claim).
It has Jeff Young interviewing Paul LeBlanc (co-founder of Matter & Space) then me. It's edited (like 30-40% of all I had said) but I think he does a good job of capturing the majority of my critiques
https://learningcurve.fm/episodes/what-if-college-teaching-was-redesigned-with-ai-in-mind
Would love to hear what you think
Maha
A former university president is trying to reimagine college teaching with AI in mind, and this year he released an unusual video that provides a kind of artist’s sketch of what that could look like. For this episode, I talk through the video with that leader, Paul LeBlanc, and get some reaction to the model from longtime teaching expert Maha Bali, a professor of practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo.
Welcome to #MYFest25! This is Equity Unbound’s fourth annual “Mid-Year Festival” (MYFest). Equity Unbound continues to co-create brave spaces and nurture a caring community for life-long-learners everywhere. Themes in MYFest25 In response to the weight of multidimensional exhaustion that many
By the public votes collected, we can now announce the winners of the #OEWeek25 Remixer Challenge.... @mahabali and @sushumna
https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/winners-by-vote-the-oeweek25-remixer-challenge/7533
The votes are in (well 9 of them, but this is a democracy) for the winners of the OEWeek25 Remixer Challenge in which we collected responses to five challenges issued each day during Open Education Week (March 3-7, 2025). And thus we share their “official” badge we remixed using the [Super Simple Remixer] (Super-simple badge) Machine, acknowledging that any one could make themselves a winner 😉 The Winners Drum roll please- Our community selected winners of the 2025 Remixer Challenge are: ...
hi there - I am soliciting feedback on my past keynotes, both to help me improve future keynotes, and also to collect quotes for testimonials, if you're willing. I'd truly appreciate your candid responses here! Honestly, I may also use it for my local review process :) Shortlink for this form is here: http://bit.ly/balikeynotes
Both these podcasts came out this week:
Cultivating Critical AI Literacies - this is me discussing cultural bias in hallucinations & on a podcast with @bonni208
https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/cultivating-critical-ai-literacies/
And another podcast for impact on Libraries and info literacies with Vicky Grant and Alanna Ross
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2sTjkAF74ldZRDFD0MTgzN?si=h9eQ5Rn4TLiEvIzhtUvvjQ&t=3
Robert W. Gehl
Gabi Wong
Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦
Jess Mitchell
Open Education Global
