Episode 034 – Chris Gilliard

Show Notes (edit: I noticed this was titled episode 33, it is in fact 34. Leaving permalink the same to not break things) This week Ken chats with Chris Gilliard, known to many as @hypervisible on Twitter. I met Chris through Virtually Connecting (a common theme in these upcoming episodes) and admire and deeply respect […]

Show Notes

(edit: I noticed this was titled episode 33, it is in fact 34. Leaving permalink the same to not break things)

This week Ken chats with Chris Gilliard, known to many as @hypervisible on Twitter. I met Chris through Virtually Connecting (a common theme in these upcoming episodes) and admire and deeply respect his work in the area of data privacy, surveillance and digital redlining. Last semester I was pulling much of his work to include in my course titled Smart Citizens (originally Smart Cities and in the podcast recordingI was saying “Digital Citizens”).

We discuss his work and the bulk of the conversation was myself picking Chris’s brain and his many years of teaching online (over 20 years) to quiz him on how to connect with our students online. I will have my first experience later this year in a fully online mode of teaching at the Tecnológico de Monterrey.

I also have to state here that Chris’s laugh is wonderful! This was a really engaging conversation for myself and I thank him for his time recording this episode.

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About our Guest

Chris Gilliard is a Professor of English at Macomb Community College. His scholarship concentrates on privacy, institutional tech policy, digital redlining, and the re-inventions of discriminatory practices through data mining and algorithmic decision-making, especially as these apply to college students.
 
Note: taken from his speaker profile at DPL 2018.

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Chris’s website is at https://hypervisible.com/
You can find Chris on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/hypervisible
The CBC Spark episode that I mention on the podcast: “Bad algorithms are making racist decisions“.
Another (after our podcast recording) episode of CBC Spark featuring Chris: “Smart home surveillance could have real impacts on privacy, racial profiling“.
A post from Chris in EDUCAUSE Review: “Pedagogy and the Logic of Platforms“.

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Transcript

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Podcasters and Guests

We now have a stable crew of two podcast hosts with Matthew Moore and myself Ken Bauer alternating episodes. Lately Matthew has been busy with his own podcast “The Teachers Lounge” which is also hosted here at the Flipped Learning Network. You should check out that podcast as well. I hope to personally keep a bi-weekly schedule going forward.

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Ken’s Take

My choice of quotes from the conversation that particularly resonated with me.

On how we often as educators assume that our students are all connected and can access our LMS or other digital tools:

“The myth of access is much more powerful than the reality when we are talking about internet, in broadband, and even technology for like who has a smartphone and how to they use it and what´s it for.”

After my story of when I consumed all of my dataplan (downloading all episodes of Gettin’ Air using my plan) which led to my two week experience of what it is like to live without cellphone data and constantly in search of WiFi:

“Right, and that precarious position is something that lots of people find themselves in all the time. Often again, students are sharing their data plans with family members; lots of them don’t have tablets or laptops, so they are required to do everything on that device [cellphone].”

On whether our students really care about their privacy (a common phrase we see and here in writing):

“So, you’ve touched upon (and I am sure you probably did this intentionally) an exposed nerve. So yes they do. I can’t speak across the board but the idea that students don’t care about these things is a again a myth perpetuated by the people who want students not to care and want us not to care.”

“But the other thing is, that’s an easy out for some laziness and bad practices (or malice in some cases to be honest) on the part of teachers and administrators and institutions.”

Music Credit

The music (titled Aloft) clip at the start and end of the podcast is copyright by Kelly Walsh and used with permission.

Podcast Logo Credit

The image of a microphone used in the logo for our podcast is courtesy of Eric Harvey.

Featured Image Credit

Photo of Chris Gilliard, take from his speaker profile at DPL 2018.