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A safe podcast where students and faculty dialogue over the dangerous topics impacting teaching and learning experiences in community college.

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A safe podcast where students and faculty dialogue over the dangerous topics impacting teaching and learning experiences in community college.

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English


Episodes
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Sean Goes to a Punk Show

5/22/2023
Sean and curry take a break from talking about books to explore the learning (and moshpits) modeled at punk rock festivals.

Duration:00:45:16

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Prepping for the Punk Rock Show

5/11/2023
Sean and curry talk about NoFX's "180 Degrees" song to prepare to attend a punk rock show. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com

Duration:00:29:38

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Critical Comforts in the Land of Digital Pedagogy

5/4/2023
Sean teases curry's lack of stimulating course design as they discuss ”Digital Critical Pedagogy" from An Urgency of Teachers. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com

Duration:01:06:03

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WritingwithMachines: Valuing Biliterate Brains

5/1/2023
Welcome to another crossover episode with WritingwithMachines, a rad group of English teachers who get together to discuss technology, teaching, and composition. In this WritingwithMachines conversation, my colleagues and I reflect on the literacy skills and reading processes we teach in our composition classes. To explore more, check out our blog post for this episode and others at https://wordpress.miracosta.edu/writingwithmachines/

Duration:00:54:11

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Inclusive? Mechanized? Teaching. Our part 2 response to ”Not Enough Voices”

4/20/2023
Sean and curry take a second attempt to discuss Sean Michael Morris' ”Not Enough Voices," in An Urgency of Teachers. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com

Duration:00:56:21

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WritingwithMachines: Reading, Attention, and Thinking-about-Thinking

4/17/2023
Welcome to another crossover episode with WritingwithMachines, a rad group of English teachers who get together to discuss technology, teaching, and composition. In this WritingwithMachines conversation, my colleagues and I explore how our experiences reading in different modalities form our thinking, writing, and metacognition. To explore more, check out our blog post for this episode and others at https://wordpress.miracosta.edu/writingwithmachines/

Duration:00:57:17

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WritingwithMachines: Voice, Bias, and Templates

4/10/2023
Welcome to another crossover episode with WritingwithMachines, a rad group of English teachers who get together to discuss technology, teaching, and composition. In this WritingwithMachines conversation, my colleagues and I explore the writer’s voice, technique, and materials that encode values, and ask: what shapes human expression? To explore more, check out our blog post for this episode and others at https://wordpress.miracosta.edu/writingwithmachines/

Duration:00:58:07

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Not Enough Time for ”Not Enough Voices”

4/6/2023
Sean and curry discuss Sean Michael Morris' ”Not Enough Voices," in An Urgency of Teachers. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com

Duration:00:24:32

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WritingwithMachines: Surfaces, Tools, and Affordances

4/3/2023
Welcome to another crossover episode with WritingwithMachines, a rad group of English teachers who get together to discuss technology, teaching, and composition. In this WritingwithMachines conversation, my colleagues and I explore technologies in history that have shifted the way writers process and produce texts. To explore more, check out our blog post for this episode and others at https://wordpress.miracosta.edu/writingwithmachines/

Duration:00:55:27

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WritingwithMachines: BYO Article on ChatGPT

3/30/2023
Hey Safe Topics listeners. This episode is a crossover with WritingwithMachines, a rad group of English teachers who get together to discuss technology, teaching, and composition. Our content needs a new home, and Sean and I feel the issues and pedagogies we talk about in WritingwithMachines fits well here in SAFE Topics. Hope you like enjoy :-) In this WritingwithMachines conversation, my colleagues and I explore articles, podcasts, or other sources that help us think about generative AI tools To explore more, check out our blog post for this episode and others at https://wordpress.miracosta.edu/writingwithmachines/

Duration:00:58:27

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curry Goes to Jiu Jitsu

3/16/2023
Sean and curry take a brief break from talking about books to explore the teaching and learning (and choke-holds) modeled in Jiu Jitsu training.

Duration:00:36:59

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Classrooms of Possibilities, our concluding response to Teaching to Transgress

3/2/2023
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapters ”Confronting Class," "Eros, Eroticism..." and "Ecstacy" in Teaching to Transgress. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com

Duration:00:56:29

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We Have Bodies; We Work in the Classroom, our Part 2 response to ”Building a Teaching Community”

2/24/2023
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapters ”Building a Teaching Community" in Teaching to Transgress. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com

Duration:00:44:45

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A Project We Work On Together, our Part 1 response to ”Building a Teaching Community”

2/16/2023
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapters ”Building a Teaching Community" in Teaching to Transgress. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com

Duration:00:42:29

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Languages We Use, our response to bell hooks’chapters 9 and 11

2/9/2023
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapters ”Feminist Scholarship” and "Language" in Teaching to Transgress. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com

Duration:00:52:59

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The Voices and How We Listen, our response to bell hooks’chapters 7 and 8

1/5/2023
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapter ”Holding My Sister's Hand” and "Feminist Thinking" in Teaching to Transgress. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com

Duration:00:54:31

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Layers, our response to bell hooks’ ”Essentialism and Experience”

12/23/2022
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapter ”Essentialism and Experience” in Teaching to Transgress. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com

Duration:01:07:01

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There’s No Place Like Theory, our response to bell hooks’ ”Theory as Liberatory Practice”

12/15/2022
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapter "Theory as Liberatory Practice" in Teaching to Transgress. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com

Duration:00:37:03

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Tapestry Thinking, our response to bell hooks’ ”Paulo Freire”

12/8/2022
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapter "Paulo Freire" in Teaching to Transgress. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com

Duration:00:52:51

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Why Go to College?

12/1/2022
In this episode, Sean and curry share their stories about going to college and discuss how their experiences may be similar and different for people thinking about college in a post-pandemic era. We will return to our conversation on bell hook's Teaching to Trangsress soon. Next chapter, "Paulo Freire"! Can't wait!

Duration:00:35:36