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Continue reading →: Why Education Is So Hard to Change—and How Real Transformation Might Begin
I am converting some of my long academic articles into short blog posts using AI. Here is another one. Education is constantly changing. Schools adopt new technologies. Governments rewrite curriculum standards. Teachers learn new pedagogies. Assessment systems are revised. New programs promise creativity, personalized learning, student agency, and 21st-century skills.…
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Continue reading →: AI and Education: It Is Time to End the Grammar of Schooling
I am converting some of my long academic articles into short blog posts using AI. Here is another one. Since the arrival of ChatGPT, discussions about artificial intelligence in education have exploded. Teachers are being shown how AI can generate lesson plans, provide feedback, create quizzes, tutor students, and personalize…
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Continue reading →: AI Won’t Transform Education Unless Schools Change
I am converting some of my long academic articles into short blog posts using AI. Here is the first one. Since ChatGPT appeared in late 2022, artificial intelligence has swept through education. Conferences, workshops, books, webinars, and professional development sessions now promise to show teachers how to use AI to…
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Continue reading →: Beyond Meritocracy: Why Education Should Cultivate Human Interdependence
I am converting some of my long academic articles into short blog posts using AI. Here is the first one. For generations, education has been built around a seemingly reasonable idea: meritocracy. Students who demonstrate more ability, work harder, and achieve more should receive greater opportunities and rewards. Schools operationalize…
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Continue reading →: Fast AI, Slow Learning: Reflections from September Courageous Minority Meeting
This is a fascinating meeting so I have just asked ChatGPT to summarize it without much modification. It is a long post, but definitely worth reading. At our most recent Courageous Minority meeting, we returned to a question that has become increasingly difficult to avoid: If AI can do so…
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Continue reading →: It Was Never the Tech: What centuries of panic about new technologies can teach us
By Chris Hayden, a member of the Courageous Minority group. I have invited members of the Courageous Minority group to write about their experiences. Here is another one. Every generation is warned that a new technology will ruin how children think. What is striking, once the warnings are lined up, is how little the…
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Continue reading →: Using Generative AI for Creative Realisations
By Dr Nick Jackson, a member of the Courageous Minority group. I have invited members of the Courageous Minority group to write about their experiences. Here is another one. A discussion I had yesterday with the Head of Faculty in English about poetry, AI, and younger learners. We were talking particularly about Year 7…
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Continue reading →: Built to Fall: Coaching Students Through Real Autonomy
By Shenel Lambiro, a member of the Courageous Minority group. I have invited members of the Courageous Minority group to write about their experiences. Here is another one. At a conference in October 2025, I saw a talk by architect Takaharu Tezuka, who designed a Tokyo kindergarten around one idea: kids need…
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Continue reading →: When AI Can Do So Much, What Should Schools Teach?
Reflections from the 2nd sub-group of Courageous Minority in August. At a recent meeting of the 2nd sub-group of the Courageous Minority, I began with a question that has been troubling me more each day: If artificial intelligence can already do much of what schools teach students to do, what…
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Continue reading →: What Is Worth Teaching When AI Can Already Do It?
Reflections from the Courageous Minority At the first sub-group meeting of our third Courageous Minority meeting, I began with a question that has become increasingly difficult to avoid: What is worth teaching when artificial intelligence can already do much of what schools teach students to do? For a long time,…
More about Yong Zhao
Dr. Yong Zhao is a Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of Kansas. He previously served as the Presidential Chair, Associate Dean, and Director of the Institute for Global and Online Education in the College of Education, University of Oregon, where he was also a Professor in the Department of Educational Measurement, Policy, and Leadership. Prior to Oregon, Yong Zhao was University Distinguished Professor at the College of Education, Michigan State University, where he also served as the founding director of the Center for Teaching and Technology, executive director of the Confucius Institute, as well as the US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence. Additionally, he worked as a professor of educational leadership in the Faculty of Education at University of Melbourne and senior researcher at the Mitchell Institute of Victoria University in Australia. He was a visiting Global Professor at University of Bath and a visiting scholar at Warwick University in the UK.
Selection of Books
