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Andrew Cantarutti on The Walled Garden: Critical Considerations for Classroom AI
AI tech has come knocking at the classroom door, and schools across the country are rushing to design their AI policies around information that seems to change by the day. At this year’s Heights Parents Conference on “AI and Our Sons: Optimism in Uncharted Waters,” writer and educator Andrew Cantarutti shared the research and critical analysis necessary for school communities to consider the claims of AI ed-tech. In the end, he says, the question will be how best to raise citizens rather than simply users. Chapters: 00:03:25 Turkish proverb: the trees and the ax 00:04:09 The attention crisis 00:08:46 AI: a different kind of technology 00:14:08 Adolescence and brain architecture 00:15:03 AI knocks on the classroom door 00:17:34 Walled Garden vs. Marketplace Mirror schools 00:21:03 Building AI literacy 00:27:04 AI’s personalized education 00:27:47 Benefits of the traditional classroom 00:31:34 Our role as parents 00:34:25 Turkish proverb, decoded Links: The Walled Garden, Andrew Cantarutti’s Substack Attention Span by Gloria Mark Empire of AI by Karen Hao Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt in Essay Writing, MIT Media Lab, June 10, 2025 Center for Humane Technology, co-founded by Tristan Harris, former Google employee Also on the Forum: Classroom Habits of Attention in the Age of AI featuring Andrew Cantarutti A Humane Way of Life: The Research Behind Home Tech Decisions featuring Clare Morell
HeightsCast: Forming Men Fully Alive
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