OAILL podcast in Book Slam #2
What is a podcast doing in a book slam? We asked and they allowed us in. Who is they? The colleagues of the Mid-Atlantic Association for Language Learning Technology (MAALT) were so kind to include Phil and me in their second Book Slam. What did we do…
OAILL podcast: Talking to colleagues at CALICO 2026
When you listen to a podcast, do you read the show notes? Every time? In case you normally don’t, you can read them here before you listen: What can generative AI do for language teaching and learning—and where does it fall short? Mat and Phil beam us…
OAILL podcast: Interviews with R. Godwin-Jones, J. Maloney, M. Tang, K. Vinall, and E. Hellmich at CALICO 2026
What are colleagues working on and thinking about when it comes to AI and language education? Phil and I went to CALICO 2026 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in July. CALICO is the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium. This professional organization was founded in 1983. At…
Opening AI for Language Learning (OAILL)
… is a series of conversations on topics at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI), in particular Generative AI (GenAI), and Language Education. Listen on Apple Podcasts and subscribe The people in conversation are Phil Hubbard and Mat Schulze. The people behind the scenes are: Shahnaz Ahmadeian…
OAILL podcast: Understanding GenAI and professional development
GenAI-SIPD? SIPD? PD? Let’s start at the beginning. GenAI, of course, stands for generative AI. Why? Literally because these AI tools generate something. The ones I am most interested in generate text. They have a large language model – LLM – under the hood. This LLM was…
OAILL podcast: AI as the imitation game
Doesn’t AI stand for Always Imitation? Machines are faking it. Computers do what computers do. They crunch numbers. And more numbers. Each letter is a number – think of the ASCII alphabet. Each token is a whole array of numbers. At each artificial neuron, numbers get crunched. And…
OAILL podcast: To AI or not to AI – Emily M. Bender and Andreas Horn
Phil and I are exploring two contrasting? or complementary? perspectives on AI in education by Andreas Horn and Emily M. Bender. How can language educators respond thoughtfully to a technology that is already shaping education. The two texts by Bender and Horn are contributions to a UNESCO…
In eigener Sache: Panta Rhei Enterprise and Opening AI for Language Learning
Things are going well. Really well. … These are sentences one does not hear very often these days. Yet, here in this blog they ring true. And for that I am grateful. Grateful to you. To you the readers. To you the listeners. Thank you. And let…
OAILL podcast: OAILL in Hong Kong
Podcasts are virtual, right? Phil Hubbard and I were not really in Hong Kong. We were in Hong Kong virtually. We were there virtually, and Glenn Stockwell was there really. Time difference and all. In our podcast episode AI and professional development according to Glenn, Phil had…
Beyond AI (7): The Imitation Game (part 4) Textual analysis
Natural language processing: In 1990 after having completed my teacher training, I stayed at the university for my doctoral studies. And soon after the Deutschmark came to East Germany on July 1, 1990, I bought a personal computer (Figure 10) and found some software that were not…
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