Forthcoming Chapter: Learning Machines in Rewiring AI and Education

We are excited to share that our chapter, Learning Machines: Rewiring AI’s Pedagogical Fabulations, will be published in the forthcoming book Rewiring for Artificial Intelligence: Education, Contemporary Issues, and Futurities (Edited by Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, University of Ottawa and Patrick Phillips, University of Ottawa).

This chapter offers a speculative proposal for rewiring today’s “learning machines” by experimenting with pedagogical fabulations that engage with the black-boxed theories and practices that pervade, but also evade, contemporary educational thought. Drawing on our collaborative research-creation residency held at Concordia’s Black Box space, the chapter synthesizes content and form by thinking-making with AI, algorithms, and other computational tools in order to reframe questions of agency, intelligence, artificiality, accessibility, and ultimately, learning. Through the experimental sites of memory, imagination, and dreams, the chapter positions engagements with the perceptions, materialities, and temporalities of AI as both a site and apparatus for rewiring taken-for-granted assumptions about the pedagogical possibilities, but also limits, that subtend today’s learning machines.