DFI Limited Series and Collaborations

From immersive podcasts to visionary video projects, DFI Limited Media Series and Collaborations showcase the Institute’s legacy of storytelling and collaborative innovation.


A poster image for the MODES volume 2 gallery exhibit lists the opening details from 2025 with a variety of textures, photographed close up.

MODES, Volume 2 Interview Series (2025)

As the second edition in the series, MODES II explores the innovative methodologies of five Teachers College-affiliated scholars, showcasing how they connect research, practice, and audience through alternative, digital, and multimodal dissertations.
The words “A.I. in the Classroom: Digital Futures Institute” appear over a futuristic background with blue and purple swirling shapes

A.I. in the Classroom, Series 2 (2025)

Students and faculty affiliated with Teachers College share how they are taking up AI tools in their courses, research and beyond.
A shadow puppet scene with the words “Puppets in Education” superimposed on top

Puppets in Education Interview Series (2024)

Puppets in Education Interview Series takes viewers behind the scenes of this exhibit, and then up close as puppet designers share insights and questions connected to a variety of puppetry forms.
Text reads “Pursuing the Public Good” over a plain white background with a Teachers College logo underneath.

Pursing the Public Good, 2024

Focusing on work in higher education that aims to improve our world.
Text reads, “MODES: A Multimodal Dissertation Exhibit” on a gray background with slices of textures photographed up close.

MODES, Volume 1 Interview Series (2024)

MODES examines the innovative approaches scholars use to connect research, practice, and audience through their creative dissertations. This exploration includes the insights and methodologies of five scholars affiliated with Teachers College.
The words “A.I. in the Classroom: Digital Futures Institute” appear over a futuristic background with red and purple swirling shapes

A.I. in the Classroom, Series 1 (2023)

Teachers College students and faculty discuss the arrival of large language models and other generative A.I. tools, in the classroom and beyond.
Photograph image of ocean water meeting the horizon. Text reads, “Currents: A IUME Podcast

Currents (2022)

Currents, a podcast hosted through the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Urban and Minority Education, features host Professor Cally Waite in conversation with scholars about the how’s and why’s of knowledge creation and current events.
The question, “How’s School?” appears in a speech bubble against a gold background.

How’s School? (2022)

The question adults reflexively ask, and kids hate to answer. Issues that impact young people, for the people who care about them.
Text appears against a background that looks like crumpled paper, “Just One Thing: a Digital Futures Institute Production

Just One Thing (2021)

Five Teachers College faculty reflect on one thing they’ve learned and experienced since March 2020 that they don’t want to forget. The responses range in topic and tone, but they share a common theme of learning to better connect and care for one another.
Inside a magnifying glass are the words, “(Re)Search for Solutions: Gun Violence”. A logo for the Media for Social Change Lab is in the top left corner.

(Re)Search for Solutions: Gun Violence (2020)

A limited podcast series focusing on unexpected and creative ways that researchers are looking at solutions to the persistence of gun violence.

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