This week's review is on Leadership & Sustainability: System Thinkers in Action by Michael Fullan. Fullan is back and better than ever... If it can feel that Fullan's books are the latest cinematic universe - sharing many of the same elements while moving forward at a regular pace - I can't argue with you. Made with Sora. This would have been an amazing cover. In this case, Fullan looks at systemness and sustainability approaching how schools, districts, and systems can crea

A review of the magazine issue from the Bishop Barron-led Word on Fire Institute. A beautifully-produced magazine that serves as just the...

This week's review is on Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust by Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis . In the nearly six years since its publication, Gary Marcus has remained a staunch contrarian even as Generative AI has exploded in financing, development, and implementation across the tech, business, and education worlds. Rebooting AI marks his first real entry into a critique of where the field was heading and the limitations imposed by those choices. Thi

This week's review is on Teaching with AI - A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning by Jos é Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson. A book which states its aim clearly - focusing on the how, not necessarily the why or why not of using AI in teaching. Bowen and Watson present a brief overview on what AI is, before proceeding to Teaching (which includes a discussion of cheating, policies, and quality) and Learning (feedback, assessments, writing). The first section is l

The Better Pastor: A Fable  by Patrick Lencioni Clocking it at 101 pages, The Better Pastor aims to provide - in story form - simple...

This week's review is on Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell . A book written by an expert on AI -...

This week's review is on Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up   by Abigail Shrier . Abigail Shrier builds off of her Substack ...

Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great by Jim Collins Clocking it at 35 pages, this addendum which...

Two interesting reads today - which given their construction and the personal relationship I have with several of the authors in A...

This week's review is on  The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization (Revised and Updated) by Peter M. Senge....

The passing of Llosa marks the passing of one of South America's best novelists. As someone not aligned with the global left, Llosa will...

This week's review is on   Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect by Will Guidara. After...

This week's review is on   Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI   by Karen Hao. Widely anticipated and already a...

This week's review is on The Smart Non-Profit: Staying Human-Centered in an Automated World by Beth Kanter and Allison Fine. With about...

This week's review is on   Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future   by Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato . Hoffman is the...

This week's review is on   AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference by Arvind...

This week's review is on Brave New Worlds: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (And Why That's a Good Thing) by Salman Khan . Yikes....

This week's review is on The AI Classroom: The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Education by Daniel Fitzpatrick, Amanda Fox,...

This week's review is on The IC Toolkit by Jim Knight, Jessica Wise, Michelle Harris, and Amy Musante . Jim Knight is a legend in the...

This week's review is on Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford. Artificial...