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WHAT IS LANGUAGE JUSTICE AND GENERATIVE AI?
WHAT IS LANGUAGE JUSTICE AND GENERATIVE AI?
This session focuses on best practices to ensure a critical perspective on the way AI can both support language justice and also reproduce language injustice. Participants will marry theory to practice by implementing pedagogy that is rooted in linguistic justice, translanguaging, and raciolinguistics through culturally sustaining practices for their school community.
Facilitator of Language Justice and
Generative AI
Facilitator of Language Justice and
Generative AI
Dr Wendy Barrales
Dr Wendy Barrales
Dr. Wendy Barrales (ella, she, her) is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at John Jay College, CUNY and the founder of the Women of Color Archive (WOCArchive), a digital arts-based oral history project preserving, documenting, and amplifying the stories of WOC through computer science.
In 2016, Dr. Barrales was the founding Adviser of Curriculum and Design of an all-girls STEM high school in Brooklyn, where she was the inaugural chair of Ethnic Studies. As an NSF Postdoctoral Associate at NYU, Dr. Barrales worked alongside Black and Latinx youth to co-design learning spaces with educators that support the development of positive self-identities for historically marginalized students in the field of science. She has supported educators across New York City through the Computer Science for All initiative, as an Induction Mentor at Teachers College, Columbia University, and facilitating workshops on political education with the New York Collective of Radical Educators.
Dr. Barrales is proud to be a first gen college graduate, daughter of Mexican immigrants, and former New York City Public School teacher. Her work has been recognized by the National Science Foundation, George Lucas Educational Foundation, and the American Association of University Women.
How is EEAI incorporatingthis practice?
How is EEAI incorporatingthis practice?
Despite being a city of immigrants where more than 150 languages are spoken, New York City has a long history of language injustice within public schools. Many historically marginalized immigrant communities have fought for bilingual education and for access to materials in their home language. Digital tools and generative AI have become an important tool to address this injustice but can also reproduce the injustice we are attempting to dismantle. Because of this, we must consider the importance of language justice in our curriculum, pedagogy, and its relationship to AI. Throughout this session, participants will learn the historical importance of language justice in public schools, strategies that support multilingual learners of various languages, and how critically and carefully use AI to both support multilingual learners and your broader school community’s language needs.
Key Terms
Key Terms
Translanguaging
Translanguaging is a pedagogy that allows children to use their full linguistic repertoire to express and communicate in the classroom.
What is Translanguaging with Dr. Ofelia Garcia & Translanguaging Resources
Raciolinguistics
Raciolinguistics challenges the idea that language is objective, instead viewing it as socially constructed and imbued with racial meaning and power dynamics.
Classroom Resources
Participating in Literacies and Computer Science is a project supporting multilingual learners learning computer science in New York City Public Schools
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