Designing with Friction: Protecting Durable Learning in the Age of Generative AI
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Future Ready, Not Just AI Ready
Imagine Learning, IL Future Ready Student SummitA district-leader keynote on screen time, pedagogical friction, and the decisions adults must retain when tools make schoolwork easier.
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June 11, 2026. What AI Makes Easy Might Be What Students Need to Struggle With, DuPage Regional Office of Education. View session
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Designing with Friction: Classroom Assessment and Assignment Redesign
Audience: teachers, instructional coaches, and curriculum leaders.
Format: practical workshop.
Beyond AI Compliance: Policy, Procurement, and Decision Rights for School Leaders
Audience: superintendents, school boards, technology leaders, and cabinet teams.
Format: leadership workshop or board conversation.
Civic Reasoning and Historical Inquiry in Synthetic Media Environments
Audience: social studies educators, curriculum leaders, and civic-learning organizations.
Format: curriculum workshop or conference session.
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Do the thinking the talks invite.
These public experiences move from hearing the framework to testing it. They are activities and companion tools, not additional presentations.
Keeper of the Word
Carry one message through five media conditions and experience how each environment changes memory, authorship, and meaning.
Experience the media ecology journey →Friction Lab
Practice distinguishing productive challenge from exclusionary barriers across realistic AI-supported learning cases.
Practice the design judgment →Technoskepticism Primer
Work through the five technoskeptical questions, their Postman roots, and a pedagogical-friction overlay, with an applied stance for AI governance, curriculum, and equity.
Explore the technoskeptical stance →Complete public directory
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Conference sessions, keynotes, workshops, doctoral milestones, course presentations, and alternate editions are collected here.
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PD365Upcoming online workshop · October 27, 2026
The Friction Audit: What Your Phone Policy Cannot Do
Audit a draft device policy against Illinois Public Act 104-0657, which regulates personal phones and exempts school-issued devices by definition.
Imagine LearningUpcoming district-leader keynote · October 6, 2026
Future Ready, Not Just AI Ready
Apply a learning-goal lens to district tools and policies, then name one protection and one owner.
IETLFall Workshop · September 25, 2026
The Pouch and the Bypass
Weigh three implementation models against the device the statute leaves untouched, then test the frame against recording-capable glasses at dismissal.
NLU AI Ethics in EducationInvited doctoral session · August 4, 2026
AI Tools for Doctoral Work
Match research tools to scholarly tasks while retaining verification, authorship, privacy, and judgment.
Dissertation Proposal DefenseNational Louis University · August 13, 2026
Pedagogical Friction in the Age of Generative AI and Tertiary Algorithmicity
The proposal argument, research questions, qualitative-dominant mixed-methods design, and study boundaries.
CCD-698 Dissertation Research SeminarMonth Three check-in · August 2026
Month Three: Defense Passed
Records the proposal-defense milestone, committee feedback, IRB sequence, and next research gates.
CCD-698 Dissertation Research SeminarTerm 1 reflection · Summer 2026
Integrating Purpose, Pedagogical Friction, and the Practitioner-Scholar Journey
An interactive reflection connecting educational leadership, doctoral research, and practitioner-scholar identity.
CCD-698 Dissertation Research SeminarMonth Two check-in · July 2026
Month Two: Approved to Defend
Tracks proposal-defense approval, CITI completion, IRB preparation, and proposal-to-IRB alignment.
DuPage ROEConference session · June 11, 2026
What AI Makes Easy Might Be What Students Need to Struggle With
Use the friction lens to distinguish support, bypass, and barriers in AI-supported learning.
CCD-698 Dissertation Research SeminarFirst-month planning presentation · June 2026
First-Month Dissertation Goals
Establishes the first monthly goals, proposal-stage boundaries, and planned dissertation milestones.
NLU Doctoral ColloquiumWorkshop and presentation · May 2026
Pedagogical Friction and AI
A practitioner-scholar workshop for diagnosing which forms of friction learning needs.
AAACSInteractive scholarly session · 2026
Pedagogical Friction as Subversive Praxis
An interactive curriculum-studies exploration of resistance, formation, agency, and competing interpretations.
NLU AI in EducationConference presentation · 2026
When the Output Looks Like Learning
Distinguish visible performance from evidence of subsequent learning in AI-supported work.
NCSS Historical Inquiry EditionSocial studies session · 2026
When AI Does the Thinking
Preserve sourcing, contextualization, corroboration, and accountable historical interpretation.
Historical Inquiry FrictionFull interactive workshop deck · 2026
When AI Does the Thinking
A fuller version with disciplinary examples, redesign activities, notes, and connected inquiry tools.
ISTE+ASCDExpert webinar · 2026
The Pedagogical Importance of Friction in the Age of Generative AI
Instructional design strategies for preserving target thinking while reducing barriers.
Practitioner EditionInteractive learning experience · 2026
The Pedagogical Imperative of Friction
A practical pathway from the conceptual framework to classroom task and support decisions.
Social Studies Virtual SessionDisciplinary adaptation · 2026
Teaching Social Studies in the Age of AI
Use four questions to protect civic reasoning, source work, and judgment in AI-supported lessons.
AAACS Civic AdaptationCurriculum and civic session · 2026
Frictionless Citizen
Ask what evidence shows that learners practiced the deliberation democratic life requires.
Academic EditionQualifying-paper talk edition · 2026
The Pedagogical Imperative of Friction
The fuller theoretical presentation, with learning-science lineages, media ecology, and an explicit proposed extension.
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The same argument, different rooms
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The central concern remains human development. The language, evidence, and invitation change with the room.
Practice and leadership
Turns the framework into choices educators and leaders can make about tasks, tools, and institutional conditions.
See a conference session →Scholarship and inquiry
Names the theory, tests the distinctions, and opens the conceptual framework to critique and further research.
See a scholarly session →Curriculum and civic life
Connects media conditions to judgment, public knowledge, democratic participation, and human formation.
See a civic adaptation →District leadership
Connects instructional questions to governance, infrastructure, policy, and the conditions systems create.
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