The Tao of WAO

Dialogue with experts focusing on the themes of Race, Gender, AI, and Geographic Location & Language/Localisation. Each expert delves into how these areas influence and shape the future trajectories of media and information literacy. Support this podcast: https://opencollective.com/weareopen

This season of the podcast is looking at the future of new literacies as part of a submission to the Winter 2023 edition of the Journal for Media Literacy. Our guest host for the season is Ian O'Byrne https://www.linkedin.com/in/wiobyrne/ Support this podcast: https://opencollective.com/weareopen

The podcast discusses AI literacy, shifts in perception of literacy with technology advancement, and upcoming Season 8 plans. They explore oral storytelling revival, societal impacts, AI advancements, critical thinking with AI tools, and future collaborations with Journal of Media Literacy.

In this episode we speak with Krystal Rawls, the Program Leader and Storyteller currently directing the Cal State University Dominguez Hills Workforce Integration Network. https://opencollective.com/weareopen https://literal.club/club/tao-of-wao/book https://www.linkedin.com/in/professorrawls/ https://toby-89881.medium.com/explode-on-impact-cba283b908cb

Today's guest is Matt Jukes, a self-described 'product person' who just left the position of Head of Profession for Product Management at the UK government's Department for Business and Trade. He's got a really useful newsletter called Public Service Internet jobs and is an all-round interesting person. https://opencollective.com/weareopen https://literal.club/club/tao-of-wao/book Links https://www.jukes.ie/ https://tinyletter.com/jukesie https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjukes/ https://digitalbydefault.com/2023/05/21/dc-days/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mjukes_five-year-anniversary-of-my-dumbest-work-activity-7079159577564303360-F8qE https://digitalbydefault.com/2023/06/04/2023-ambitions-story-so-far/

https://opencollective.com/weareopen https://literal.club/club/tao-of-wao/book Inspiration for this episode from Nita Farahany on Undivided Attention, The Battle for your Brain. https://your-undivided-attention.simplecast.com/episodes/protecting-our-freedom-of-thought-with-nita-farahany-_HAu6pb4 Deconstructing power in the age of AI: https://www.laurahilliger.com/models/deconstructing-power-in-the-age-of-ai/

Today's guests are Tim Riches founding director of Navigatr and Omid Mufeed, CTO at Navigatr. We're talking about their history, open badge technology and new AI improvements in the world of badging and credentialling Links https://www.navigatr.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-riches-a784792/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/omufeed/

Today's guests are Paul Ashcroft and Garrick Jones from The Curious Advantage podcast. They are both co-founders of The Ludic Group, a highly successful business consultancy and have worked with companies such as Novartis and Coca-Cola. They are the authors of several books, including The Curious Advantage, and Digital Humans! Links https://www.curiousadvantage.com/ https://ludicgroup.com/ Garrick: "in Bocca" series from 1970s https://www.eatyourbooks.com/library/195510/il-buco-stories-and-recipes

This is part 2 of Co-op Lessons. Doug and Laura chat with fellow We Are Open Co-op founding member, John Bevan about the lessons learned over the last 7 years of running a cooperative. https://opencollective.com/weareopen https://literal.club/club/tao-of-wao/book Links https://wiki.weareopen.coop/en/guidelines/running-a-project https://learnwith.weareopen.coop/courses/meetings-course/

In this 2 part episode, Doug and Laura chat with fellow We Are Open Co-op founding member, John Bevan about the lessons learned over the last 7 years of running a cooperative. https://opencollective.com/weareopen https://literal.club/club/tao-of-wao/book Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication https://outlandish.com/workshops/reframing-conflict/ FONT: https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2023/03/08/font-and-nvc/ https://outlandish.com/blog/abi-is-stepping-down-from-being-a-member-of-outlandish/