Adam Bessie’s Graphically Dystopian Take on Education in the Digital Age of COVID and AI
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In this episode, Andrew talks to Adam Bessie, the author of Going Remote, about his dystopian journey during COVID, as a community college teacher, from the physical to the virtual classroom
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ADAM BESSIE is a community college English professor in the San Francisco Bay Area and writes comics which have been published in many national outlets, including the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Boston Globe, and the Los Angeles Times. He won the New York Association of Black Journalists 2018 Award for the graphic essay “Betsy Devos’ ‘School Choice’ Movement Isn’t Social Justice. It’s a Return to Segregation” (with Erik Thurman). He lives on the site of a former dynamite factory with his wife and son on the San Pablo Bay.
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