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
Applying the Science of Learning
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
7. Teaching Teen Brains
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
Social Brains ghj_amp Classrooms
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
Reflective Minds & Metacognition
Westin Copley Place Hotel, Boston, MA
November 16-18, 2018
The Science of How We Learn
Engaging Memory, Motivation, Mindsets, Making and Mastery
Anxiety, Stress, & Autism
Held at the historic Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, CA
February 17-19, 2017