S.A.F.E. Topics

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

Sean Goes to a Punk Show

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

05-22
45:16

Prepping for the Punk Rock Show

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

05-11
29:38

Critical Comforts in the Land of Digital Pedagogy

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

05-04
01:06:03

WritingwithMachines: Valuing Biliterate Brains

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/

05-01
54:11

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

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

04-20
56:21

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

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/

04-17
57:17

WritingwithMachines: Voice, Bias, and Templates

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/ 

04-10
58:07

Not Enough Time for ”Not Enough Voices”

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

04-06
24:32

WritingwithMachines: Surfaces, Tools, and Affordances

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/ 

04-03
55:27

WritingwithMachines: BYO Article on ChatGPT

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/

03-30
58:27

curry Goes to Jiu Jitsu

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.

03-16
36:59

Classrooms of Possibilities, our concluding response to Teaching to Transgress

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

03-02
56:29

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

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

02-25
44:45

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

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

02-17
42:29

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

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

02-09
52:59

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

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

01-05
54:31

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

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

12-23
01:08:01

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

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

12-16
37:04

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

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

12-08
52:51

Why Go to College?

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!

12-01
35:36

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