Black-Liberation.Tech
Black-Liberation.Tech: Academic & Career Coaching for the Digital AgeYour academic and career journey shouldn't require leaving your culture at the door. Tailored for high-achieving Latinas, Afro-Latinas, Black women, and girls, the Black-Liberation.Tech podcast is your strategic guide to navigating school (Grades 6–PhD), career pivots, and the evolving tech landscape.Hosted by Dr. Renée Jordan—an ecosystem builder, educator, and instructional technologist—this podcast transforms complex tech concepts and institutional roadblocks into practical, everyday strategies. Whether you are a DIY learner advocating for yourself in elite spaces, an early-stage professional charting your career, or a mother guiding her daughter's future...
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Strengthening How We Learn with AI
<p>What happens when we move beyond asking AI to explain something and begin creating and testing our own connections?</p><p>In this episode of AI for Academic Success, Dr. Renée Jordan introduces the revised Module 2, Help Me Learn Through My Interests, which now emphasizes analogies instead of metaphors.</p><p>We explore how learners can connect new academic concepts to their interests and prior knowledge, map relationships between ideas, identify where comparisons break down, and test their understanding without relying on AI-generated explanations.</p><p>Through the Try It Like Dr. Ellen Ochoa activity, learners practice a f...
From AI Explanations to Teaching What You Know
<p>AI for Academic Success: Create, Question & Explain with Confidence</p><p>How do you know whether you truly understand something you've learned?</p><p>In Part 4 of the AI for Academic Success Module 2 walkthrough, Dr. Renée Jordan explores the Scholar Reflection, Learning Connection, and Try It Like Dr. Ellen Ochoa activity.</p><p>Using the original metaphor-centered workbook, we examine how students can connect academic concepts to their interests, create their own comparisons, evaluate AI feedback, recognize misconceptions, and teach what they've learned to someone else.</p><p>The goal isn't simply to receive an explanation from AI. I...
What Can We Learn from How Innovators Think?
<p>AI for Academic Success: Exploring Excellence, Creativity & Problem-Solving</p><p>What can we learn from how accomplished women think—not just what they accomplished?</p><p>In Part 3 of the Module 2 walkthrough of AI for Academic Success, Dr. Renée Jordan explores Janiyah GPT's response to an Excellence Exploration featuring Dr. Ellen Ochoa, Katherine Johnson, Dr. Adriana Ocampo, Dr. Antonia Novello, Dr. Ainissa Ramirez, and Dr. Helen Rodríguez-Trías.</p><p>Their stories reveal different approaches to learning and problem-solving: connecting disciplines, asking questions, recognizing patterns, communicating complex ideas, storytelling, and systems thinking.</p><p>The episode invites learn...
Testing AI as a Learning Partner
<p>AI for Academic Success</p><p>Can a gaming metaphor make the chemistry of photosynthesis easier to understand—without simplifying away the science?</p><p>In this episode of AI for Academic Success, Dr. Renée Jordan tests the Module 2 prompt with Janiyah GPT. Starting with a biology learner who understands the big idea of photosynthesis but struggles with the chemistry inside the chloroplast, the prompt asks AI to connect the concept to gaming.</p><p>We examine how Janiyah uses game levels, energy meters, and crafting systems to explain light-dependent reactions, ATP, NADPH, the Calvin cycle, and carbon fix...
Building New Learning from What You Already Know
<p>AI for Academic Success</p><p>What if something you already know could help you understand something completely new?</p><p>In this episode of AI for Academic Success, Dr. Renée Jordan begins the Module 2 walkthrough with Amara, a creative learner struggling to understand atoms until she connects the science to something familiar: painting.</p><p>From there, we explore how learners can use their interests, experiences, and prior knowledge as resources for learning. Dr. Jordan also walks through the original Module 2 prompt, designed to help students ask AI for explanations connected to their interests while preserving academic v...
Reading Is Thinking
<p>AI Can Help You Read—But It Can't Do the Thinking for You</p><p>What happens after AI explains a difficult reading?</p><p>In this episode of AI for Academic Success, Dr. Renée Jordan completes the Module 1 walkthrough by exploring Janiyah GPT's response to Ashley's Excellence Exploration, featuring Latinas, Afro-Latinas, and Black women whose reading, research, curiosity, scholarship, and lifelong learning contributed to discovery, leadership, and community change.</p><p>Then, the focus shifts away from prompting AI and back to the learner.</p><p>Through the Scholar Reflection, Learning Connection, and “Try It Like Dr. Shirl...
You Don't Have to Become Less of Yourself to Move Forward
<p>What happens when moving forward starts to feel like leaving parts of yourself behind?</p><p>In this bonus Episode 2 of the Hope + Clarity + Possibility crossover, Dr. Renée Jordan and Laura explore belonging, masking, perfectionism, invisible labor, and the pressure to edit ourselves to succeed. They reflect on the difference between adapting to a space and shrinking to fit it—and why our creativity, culture, lived experiences, and seemingly unrelated interests may be strengths rather than distractions.</p><p>Because belonging should not require becoming unrecognizable to yourself.</p>
Exploring Excellence Through Reading, Research & Curiosity
<p>What can the lives and work of accomplished women teach us about becoming stronger learners?</p><p>In Part 5 of the AI for Academic Success Module 1 walkthrough, Dr. Renée Jordan continues the conversation with Jasmine and Janiyah GPT through an Excellence Exploration.</p><p>This time, AI is prompted to identify Latinas, Afro-Latinas, and Black women whose reading, research, scholarship, scientific inquiry, writing, and lifelong learning contributed to discovery, innovation, leadership, education, and community change.</p><p>The exploration introduces Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, Ellen Ochoa, Dr. María Elena Bottazzi, Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, Dr. Alexa Canady, an...
Can AI Help You Think Through Information Overload?
<p>AI for Academic Success</p><p>What happens when the challenge isn't finding information—but figuring out what matters?</p><p>In this episode of AI for Academic Success, Dr. Renée Jordan continues testing the Module 1 tutoring prompt through Jasmine, a composite learner navigating a digital literacy course and the very real challenge of information overload.</p><p>Using a passage about digital literacy, online information, privacy, and responsible technology use, we examine whether AI can do more than summarize. Can it explain ideas clearly, build useful connections, introduce vocabulary, and ask questions that strengthen a learner's own und...
AI as a Reading Coach: Putting the Homework Help Lab to the Test
<p>AI as a Reading Coach: Putting the Homework Help Lab to the Test | AI for Academic Success</p><p>What happens when we move from talking about responsible AI use to actually putting it into practice?</p><p>In this episode of the Black-Liberation.Tech Podcast, Dr. Renée Jordan begins a test run of the AI for Academic Success: Homework Help Lab by stepping into representative learner perspectives from the Black-Liberation.Tech ecosystem.</p><p>Using Ashley's composite learning scenario, we explore an AP Environmental Science prompt focused on environmental justice, community health, climate change, and fairness. Rather t...
