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 →Conference Presentations Ideas in public.
An evolving argument about education, technology, and human development, shared in classrooms, conference rooms, lecture halls, and public conversations.
Explore the speaking arcMM
Conference rooms
Classrooms
Lecture halls
Leadership rooms
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Featured current keynote
What AI Makes Easy Might Be What Students Need to Struggle With
DuPage Regional Office of EducationA research-informed case for protecting the productive struggle that builds knowledge, character, and agency in an age of generative AI.
Audience pathways
Choose the room you're in.
Each presentation adapts a shared inquiry to the questions, stakes, and practices of its audience.
Interactive session tools
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.
Friction Lab
Practice distinguishing productive challenge from exclusionary barriers across realistic AI-supported learning cases.
Practice the design judgment →The speaking arc
A public archive of the work.
From productive struggle to public purpose, the ideas and their stakes evolve.
DuPage ROEKeynote session
What AI Makes Easy Might Be What Students Need to Struggle With
The polished output may conceal the learning students did not have to do.
AAACSInteractive scholarly session
Pedagogical Friction as Subversive Praxis
An interactive curriculum-studies exploration of resistance, formation, and agency.
NLU AI in EducationConference presentation
When the Output Looks Like Learning
A framework for noticing when generative fluency bypasses cognitive and noetic work.
NLU Doctoral ColloquiumWorkshop and presentation
Pedagogical Friction and AI
A practitioner-scholar workshop for diagnosing which forms of friction learning needs.
ISTE+ASCDExpert webinar
The Pedagogical Importance of Friction in the Age of Generative AI
Instructional design strategies that preserve the struggle that develops learners.
Practitioner EditionInteractive learning experience
The Pedagogical Imperative of Friction
A practical pathway from the framework to classroom decisions.
Social StudiesDisciplinary adaptation
Teaching Social Studies in the Age of AI
What happens to civic judgment when fluent answers arrive before inquiry?
AAACSCurriculum and civic adaptation
Frictionless Citizen
What civic capacities disappear when speed and convenience become educational virtues?
The same argument, different rooms
How the argument adapts.
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 keynote →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.
See a leadership keynote →