“Embodiment science rejects this presumption of fixity and opens up an exciting new possibility: that schools can be a well-designed epistemic apprenticeship, a training in the learnable and transferable crafts of thinking cogently, critically, creatively, and collaboratively about important matters in their personal, social, and political lives.” (p.10) Every once in a while, I read…
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“When technology works, it’s invisible… No matter how good our computing technologies become, they will never write humans out of the picture altogether.”— p.280 You would be interested in this book if… You are an educator or school leader navigating the rise of generative AI, and want a broader perspective. You want to understand not…
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A dark future worth looking at “Their knowledge was more in the realm of knowing how to ask machines to do things than in knowing how to do things themselves.” I picked up Ken Liu’s All That We See or Seem on the recommendation of Anand Mahadevan, Executive Director of CAIS. He suggested it as…
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“In truth, research findings about technology are almost always more nuanced. Admittedly, nuanced findings don’t make for the snappiest headlines.” (p.17) Few topics in education generate more passionate opinions than teenagers and technology – specifically ‘screen time’ and ‘GenAI’. This book focuses on screen time, but much can be applied to our current conversations…
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Book Review: Facing Our Futures Nikolas Badminton “As the first quarter of the 21st century draws towards a close, it is quite clear that possible dystopias loom… Only by anticipating possible dystopias and confronting the meaning of them as part of strategic foresight can we gain the courage and motivation to choose something better.”— Glenn…
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“True kindness—the kind that communicates with compassion, leads with honesty (not ego), holds people accountable, and creates cultures that build self-esteem—is anything but weak. It is strong. And in school leadership, I promise that it is transformative.” (p.1) When did kindness become confused with weakness? Some of the strongest school leaders I have worked with…
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“Through literacy, we can interpret the lives of those who came before us, fold them into our own, and strengthen our roots.” (p.120) You would be interested in this book if: (1) You’re ready to rethink literacy for the age of AI—not as a narrow skill, but as a rich, evolving framework for navigating human…
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“Why didn’t people all along see the obvious moral truths—and how could today’s young generation be blind to them anew?” (p.170) As leaders, we are tasked with moral decisions daily—decisions on inclusion, fairness, and evolving cultural norms. Audun Dahl’s Between Fixed and Fickle reminds us that what seems like moral certainty today was often debated…
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“Your strength is not measured by how well you fight back; it’s measured by how much you can endure while continuing to move forward.” ~ p.43 I first met Glenn through the podcast I co-host with Jason Rogers. We were interviewing him and his co-author Danny Bauer about their book “Calm in the Chaos“. Glenn’s contributions…
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“The CAP method helps students to move beyond themselves, engage with others, learn at their own pace, and show what they can do, rather than obsess over what they can’t.”— p.19 You would be interested in this book if… You are designing or leading programming that blends academic depth with student agency, purpose, and connection…
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