It is a good way to address the low representation of BIPOC population in teachers in Ontario. Right now the bar to acquire the OCT in Ontario is still set high and that intimidates BIPOC people from applying. Also there is a need to inform potential BIPOC candidates of the option and properly guide them through application process.

One way to understand where the disadvantaged group is to generate a space where dialogues with different racial, ethnic, and gender groups take place. Dialogues provide a space for people of different power posions come to convene and understand each other. Knowing the pain of the disadvantaged groups generates a start to address the problem of inequality.

memtorship program for BIPOC should focus on the cultivation of a critical mind to carefully examine one's social location, gender, sexual orientation, and race etc to situate oneself within an intersectional positionalities, to acknowledge them and activate change to reclaim one's own rights within the arena of education.

True, if you are a person of color, female, and someone from a non conforming religious background, it is more difficult evan to get an interview opportunity. Similar cases are found when there is an implicit rule for the recruiters to just look at candidates' last names to decide whether they will be invited for an interview or not.

That's probably when a teacher of color arrives new at a school, kids come and curiously ask the quesion of "where are you from". As much as these children did not mean to hurt teachers of BIPOC, they are engrained with the stereotype that teachers are white, female, and from middle-class background.

This is not to be achieved easily. One has to constantly exercise reflexivity, critical analyze where one is socially located, compared to those whose are located in a socially more disadvangeous position. Understanding one's location in comparison to that of BIPOC is critical to recognize one's own privilege and to generate changes.

I see how disportionately the demographics of school admins are represented, but I was wondering should the proportaion be represented in a way that exactly reflects the demographic representation between the BIPOC population and the white? What should be the best practice to address this disproportion?

Just looking at how amazing it is to just sit with a group of racially diverse background people in DS I remind me how privileged I am to be able to sit in the classroom and join the conversation with people of such diverse racial and cultural background. It's such an asset that Canada is able to bring together.

I hold a neutral perspective towads this statement. Economic needs is certainly a drive for the development of AI but depending on how we apply the AI in daily lives, or at work, it may become a source of advancing us in a positive way.

Conscious reclamation of human agency facing the AI dominated cultural hegemony is essential in reasserting the human intelligence dominated world. We should constantly bear in mind the fact the AI is nothing but a tool serving human needs and is nothing but assisting humans in a way that help human to realize their unique goals and to perserve their unique identities.

Also it is predominantly western contexted based. A lot of good articles and contents are other languages-based and worth being paid attention. Knowledge excluding what's going on outside the English/(north) American world is inherently dangerous and flawed.

Cultural hegemony is a relative term. The meaning changes along with the change of the dominant culture. As long as there is one dominant culture within a society,

if we don't examine and reflect what kind of society we are living in, we are take for granted to live within an interlocking capitalist system of schools, newspapers, and other social structures as well. We set the pursuance of the capitalism-filled material wealth as our life goal without questioning its justice.

Is this a newly coined term? Does it refer to someone who is seeking social transformation in this AI era?

this reminds me of the fact that the transform of a society may not necessarily result from a radical revolution or a war, and it is the transformation of people's minds being the key.