Helping Kids Thrive in the Age of AI with the Authors of The Disengaged Teen
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The Common Ground Speaker Series presents distinguished speakers in education, parenting, and health at venues across the San Francisco Peninsula. Our 2025-2026 Series will be a hybrid season with some events online and some in person. Parents, faculty, and staff at our member schools attend the Common Ground online events free of charge. Faculty and educators from non-member schools are also invited to participate free of charge. Guests from non-member schools and the general community can register and attend. Registration closes 12 hours before the start of this event or when the maximum registration capacity is reached.
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How will our students interact with AI – in the classroom and at home? We’ve learned from neuroscience that attention, cognition and learning thrive when there is belonging and connection. As more educational content is channeled through AI, we’ve yet to define its parameters to keep learning centered around teaching. Our speakers study and write about generative AI’s role in education and observe how it is poised to replace human connection as more youth turn to it for learning, companionship and therapy. Our speakers will share recommendations that define and support engaged learning in the age of AI.
About our speakers
Jenny Anderson is an award-winning journalist and author who writes about education. She has spent over a decade at The New York Times before pioneering coverage on the science of learning at Quartz.
Rebecca Winthrop studies how parents and educators can collaborate to help children flourish. She is a leading global authority on education, the director of the Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Currently, she does research on AI literacy and how to incorporate AI into education as the lead of Brookings Global Task Force on AI in Education.