Speaker Profile

Yong Zhao, PhD

Foundation Distinguished Professor, School of Education, University of Kansas; Professorial Fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Health and Education Policy, Victoria University; Professor in Educational Leadership, Melbourne Graduate School of Education; Author, “Artificial Intelligence and Education: End the Grammar of Schooling” (2024, ECNU Review of Education) and Learners Without Borders: New Learning Pathways for All Students (2021); Co-Author, “Reconsidering Literacy in an AI World” (2025, KAPPAN), Learning for Uncertainty: Teaching Students How to Thrive in a Rapidly Evolving World (2022), Teaching Students to Become Self-Determined Learners (2020) and Never Send a Human to Do a Machine’s Job (2015)
YongZhao, PhD

Past Talks

Teaching Generation AI-Z
Advancing Schooling, Skills, Relationships, and Learning in a Distracted, Uncertain, AI Age
The Fairmont SF, San Francisco, CA
February 13-15, 2026
Future-Ready Brains
Teaching Students to Think, Create, Innovate, Learn, and Adapt for an Anxious, AI Age
NY Sheraton Times Square Hotel, New York, NY or Virtually via Zoom
April 18-20, 2024
The Science of Teaching
Applying Brain Science and COVID Lessons to Improve Teaching, Schools, and Learning Spaces
The Fairmont, San Francisco, CA or Virtually via Zoom
February 18-20, 2022
Reaching for Greatness
Unleash Potential, Passions, and Creative Talents in Students with Cognitive Science
Westin Copley Place Hotel, Boston, MA
November 16-18, 2018
The Science of How We Learn
Engaging Memory, Motivation, Mindsets, Making and Mastery
Held at the historic Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, CA
February 17-19, 2017

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