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…
Beyond AI (6): The Imitation Game (part 3) Going digital
Technology and language teaching — So far, I have mainly talked about the language lab and the TV, which were a big part of my own language learning. In my teacher training, the technologies I had learnt about and was tested on in the late 1980s were…
Beyond AI (5): The Imitation Game (part 2) Learning through teaching
I continued my language learning at the teacher training college (Pädagogische Hochschule) in at least one Russian language class a day for six days a week in groups of six students and during the third year abroad in Kaluga, a city 200km south of Moscow, at the…
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