EP 49 | Is It Okay to Use AI for NAIDOC Week Planning?
About this episode
This episode discusses the appropriate use of AI in planning for NAIDOC Week and cultural celebrations.
Every year around this time, a few questions start appearing in educator Facebook groups and inboxes along the lines of… “What are you doing for NAIDOC week?”, and ‘“Is this tokenistic?” But now I’m noticing a new question doing the rounds…"Is it okay to use AI to help me plan for NAIDOC Week?" The honest answer is yes and no . And the blurred line between the two is what this episode is about. NAIDOC Week 2026 marks fifty years with the theme "50 Years of Deadly" - fifty years of celebrating the histories, cultures and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. In this episode, I walk you through where AI can genuinely help you out when it comes to planning for NAIDOC experiences, where it must not be used , and breakdown a practical four-layer community-first planning approach you can use this week and for every cultural celebration after it. 🟢 In this episode you'll: ✅ Find out why cultural planning is the highest-stakes test of how well you work with AI, and what "AI averaging" does to hundreds of distinct First Nations cultures ✅ Identify the five jobs AI can do well to support planning for cultural celebrations - and discover the five ‘step-back’…
People in this episode
Host: Jodie Clarke
Topics covered
- AI in education
- cultural planning
- NAIDOC Week
- early childhood education
- technology in teaching
Keywords
- AI
- NAIDOC Week
- cultural planning
- education
- Aboriginal culture
- Torres Strait Islander
- early education
- technology
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: 50 Years of Deadly
Places: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
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