“...that idea that everything can be solved with a computer… I kind of wanted to push back against that…” And, we’re off for the ’26-’27 school year with a technology focused pod with Zak, a digital literacy educator from Waltham Public Schools. We talk about kids on computers, making data privacy interesting, teaching kids to be computer users, the tricky domains of privacy in a hyper-networked world and books.

⁠Zak's bio⁠

⁠Zak's presentation⁠

⁠Rethinking Privacy Resources⁠ 

 FERPA,⁠https://studentprivacy.ed.gov/ferpa⁠ 

Threat modeling, ⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threat_model⁠ 

Behind Their Screens,⁠https://www.behindtheirscreens.com/⁠ 

Timnit Gebru, ⁠https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lemnAcwAAAAJ&hl=en⁠ 

Dr. Joy Buolamwini, ⁠https://www.poetofcode.com/⁠, Joy's ⁠TED Talks⁠, and ⁠Unmasking AI⁠

⁠Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I., NYTimes⁠

⁠The GenAI and Expertise Paradox: Why It Makes Expert Work More Important But Harder⁠, by Punya Mishra (the unremebered article)

AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference, ⁠https://research.princeton.edu/news/ai-snake-oil-conversation-princeton-ai-experts-arvind-narayanan-and-sayash-kapoor⁠ 

Chokepoint Capitalism, ⁠https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/justin_miller_awards_books/17/⁠ 

⁠5 things that work for me, Austin Kleon⁠ (#2 Open the document, stay in the document)