At the beginning of the HIP Learning Camp, Beijing, Professor Yong Zhao posed the students and educators present a series of questions to bring with them through the week. Top of the list was "What is worth learning in the age of AI?" After a week of interviewing a rich cross section of those involved, Dr Sam Franzway, Michael Jacobsen and Carrie Phillips were able to sit with Professor Zhao and explore that very concept and much more beyond.

We began with "What is AI's role in a poetic world?" and went on and up from there.

This podcast is the sixth and final episode of a series of special episodes of Why Teach? recorded over the course of a week-long learning camp held in No. 80 High School,

Beijing, China (17-23 August, 2025). The festival focused around the Human Interdependence Project, developed and lead by YEE Education.

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In many ways, Li Tianze typifies a contemporary approach to organising and designing education. Tianze talks about his complex methods of considering and carrying out the huge range of student-focused experiences during and around the HIP Learning Camp for Beijing 2025.

This podcast is from a series of six special episodes of Why Teach? recorded over the course of a week-long learning camp held in No. 80 High School,

Beijing, China (17-23 August, 2025). The festival focused around the Human Interdependence Project, developed and lead by YEE Education.

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Sometimes you have to get these chats on tape. Or MicroSD. In what began as one of those free-floating ideas chats during a student workshop, Dr Trina Emler talks with University Senior College's Michael Jacobsen and Dr Sam Franzway, and Pulteney Grammar School's Dan Clift about her research and experience of the process of reconsidering what learning means in the age of AI.

This podcast is from a series of six special episodes of Why Teach? recorded over the course of a week-long learning camp held in No. 80 High School,

Beijing, China (17-23 August, 2025). The festival focused around the Human Interdependence Project, developed and lead by YEE Education.

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Sarah, Rose, Riya and Lyla speak about their experience of being Teaching Assistants (or "Coaches") in the Human Interdependence Project learning camp, held in Beijing. They discuss and reflect on the joys and challenges of teaching Year 7s not only what AI is (in both English and Chinese), but how it connects with what learning and teaching will come to mean in 2025 and beyond.

This podcast is from a series of six special episodes of Why Teach? recorded over the course of a week-long learning camp held in No. 80 High School,

Beijing, China (17-23 August, 2025). The festival focused around the Human Interdependence Project, developed and lead by YEE Education.

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Sam and Michael share their experiences of the HIP Camp held in Chongqing, China in 2024 and how the camp developed into Beijing 2025, especially around the use of AI.

This podcast is from a series of six special episodes of Why Teach? recorded over the course of a week-long learning camp held in No. 80 High School, Beijing, China (17-23 August, 2025). The festival focused around the Human Interdependence Project, developed and lead by YEE Education.

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Pulteney Grammar teachers Carrie Phillips and Dan Clift talk with Michael Jacobsen and Sam Franzway about their experiences of the Human Interdependence Project and the ways that AI and self-located learning is becoming part of contemporary teaching and learning.

This podcast is from a series of six special episodes of Why Teach? recorded over the course of a week-long learning camp held in No. 80 High School, Beijing, China (17-23 August, 2025). The festival focused around the Human Interdependence Project, developed and lead by YEE Education.

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In this very special episode, Professor Yong Zhao joins Michael Jacobsen and Sam Franzway on the fifth day of the HIP Learning Festival in Chongqing, China, to talk about the inception of the concept of human interdependency, and the ways in which it has informed the development of approaches to international education in the 21st century.

This podcast is from a series of five special episodes of Why Teach? recorded over the course of a week-long learning festival held in Chongqing, China (17-24 August, 2024). The festival focused around the Human Interdependence Project, developed and lead by YEE Education.

See Michael and Sam's previous discussion with Professor Zhao on the Silver Lining for Learning podcast "What Can They Do When Empowered: Student and Teacher Voice from South Australia"

https://silverliningforlearning.org/episode-181-what-can-they-do-when-empowered-student-and-teacher-voice-from-south-australia/

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Mark McCormick joins Michael Jacobsen and Sam Franzway to talk about the origins of his teaching and how he came to be standing in the Human Interdependency Project classroom in Chongqing. The pathways of teachers are both varied and similar, and Mark puts some strong questions to Michael and Sam about their experiences of teaching, and of using AI, in the HIP learning festival classroom.

This podcast is from a series of five special episodes of Why Teach? recorded over the course of a week-long learning festival held in Chongqing, China (17-24 August, 2024). The festival focused around the Human Interdependence Project, developed and lead by YEE Education.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.