Speaking & Workshops
I offer lectures and educational workshops to public and private entities, including professional organizations, parent groups, schools & school districts, religious organizations, and student groups, with a special focus on facilitating communication and understanding regarding technology and the internet between children, parents, and educators, as well as digital mental health for children.
Underpinning all my work is the core assertion that children have a right to the knowledge that they need to understand and act within their world, free from obfuscation and elision, and presented in a way that affirms their identities and experiences and treats them with dignity, respect, and generosity.
My recent work has focused on the urgent and crucial deficit in comprehension of AI technology and marketing for educators, caregivers, and children. Below is an overview of some of the programs I offer; however, I am happy to adapt or develop any program to the needs of the sponsoring organization.
Hey Mom, What’s Recursive Self-Improvement?: Strategies for Parents, Educators, and Caregivers For Discussing Artificial Intelligence With Children, and its Place in Their Lives & Minds
Audience: Schools, Parent Groups, Professional Organizations
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Developing an AI Policy for Your Library: A Simple, Grounded Primer For Writing a Resilient and Comprehensive Policy Rooted in Reality
Audience: Libraries, Schools, Municipal Government, Professional Organizations
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Social Media Mental Health & Safety For Kids & Families: Staying Safe, Sane, and Ourselves in the World of Social Media – Whether You Use it or Not.
Separate workshops for kids & teens and families & teachers.
Audience: Schools, Parent Groups, Community Organizations
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Taming a Dodo: Universal Strategies for Knowing When – and When Not – To Use AI, and Doing So Ethically and Responsibly
Audience: All
X-Ray Spex For the Internet Set: A New Approach to Talking to Kids About the Internet, and Creating Confident, Thoughtful, Empathetic, and Responsible Digital Citizens
Audience: Parent Groups, Schools, Community Organizations
In both my professional and personal work, I seek to educate about and work against the enclosure of the open web and the relentless enshittification and corporatization of internet aesthetics, content, and architecture by a sociopathic and ravenously venal capitalist class.
The crappy, goofy, optimistic, and egalitarian aesthetic of the early internet is an assertion of generosity, whimsy, and humanity in the face of AI slop and the unremittingly dour march to techno-feudalism.
