# think forward — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover think forward. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Human-First AI Workbook: 21 Pages to Get Your School Ready for AI](https://andrewmarcinek.substack.com/p/the-human-first-ai-workbook-21-pages) _2026-08-13 · Andrew Marcinek · Think Forward_ Every school leader I’ve talked to this summer has asked me some version of the same question. ## [Don't Just Prepare Them to Use It. Prepare Them to Change It.](https://andrewmarcinek.substack.com/p/dont-just-prepare-them-to-use-it) _2026-08-11 · Andrew Marcinek · Think Forward_ I refuse to accept a future where we just train our students to be professional “users”—people who rely on tools someone else built, follow policies they didn’t write, and focus on problems they didn’t choose. ## [Know When to Hold 'Em. Know When to Fold 'Em.](https://andrewmarcinek.substack.com/p/know-when-to-hold-em-know-when-to) _2026-08-06 · Andrew Marcinek · Think Forward_ AI fluency isn't about using the tool well. It's about knowing which problems deserve it — and which ones deserve you. ## [Show Them the Ceiling and the Floor of AI](https://andrewmarcinek.substack.com/p/show-them-the-ceiling-and-the-floor) _2026-08-04 · Andrew Marcinek · Think Forward_ Students who only see AI's power become marks. Students who only see its flaws get left behind. Fluency is teaching both. ## [The Most Expensive Assumption We Ever Made](https://andrewmarcinek.substack.com/p/the-most-expensive-assumption-we) _2026-07-28 · Andrew Marcinek · Think Forward_ Why leaning into AI conversations in our schools is a must and why prohibition defers the teaching somewhere else ## [Before You Teach a Single Prompt, Say What You Believe](https://andrewmarcinek.substack.com/p/before-you-teach-a-single-prompt) _2026-07-23 · Andrew Marcinek · Think Forward_ Why schools must slow down and lean into conversations about AI before sprinting to implement AI ## [Lean Into AI Now — Your Students Already Have](https://andrewmarcinek.substack.com/p/lean-into-ai-now-your-students-already) _2026-07-21 · Andrew Marcinek · Think Forward_ I was talking with a group of students recently and I asked them how they actually use AI. ## [Fluency-First AI Implementation](https://andrewmarcinek.substack.com/p/fluency-first-ai-implementation) _2026-07-17 · Andrew Marcinek · Think Forward_ A Think Forward In Practice resource — for paid subscribers ## [Why I Use AI Every Day—and Why Schools must Teach It](https://andrewmarcinek.substack.com/p/why-i-use-ai-every-dayand-why-schools) _2026-07-14 · Andrew Marcinek · Think Forward_ I found ChatGPT in November of 2022, and I’ve used AI nearly every day since. ## [You Can't Ban Your Way to a Love of Learning](https://andrewmarcinek.substack.com/p/you-cant-ban-your-way-to-a-love-of) _2026-07-02 · Andrew Marcinek · Think Forward_ I keep returning to a David McCullough line, set down by Jon Meacham in his foreword to History Matters: ## [Production-grade web engineering (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/NUYUbXOqaEoi) _2026-07-02 · **Sponsored**_ Senior engineers who rebuild or launch scalable web products with enterprise rigor ## [The Concept Before the Screen](https://andrewmarcinek.substack.com/p/the-concept-before-the-screen) _2026-06-30 · Andrew Marcinek · Think Forward_ Three research-backed lessons that build digital and AI fluency without a device — and the evidence for why this works ## [LAUSD Capped Screen Time. It Measured the Wrong Thing.](https://andrewmarcinek.substack.com/p/lausd-capped-screen-time-it-measured) _2026-06-30 · Andrew Marcinek · Think Forward_ Walk into a classroom and watch a fourth grader work through her assigned minutes on an adaptive reading program. ## [Think Forward In Practice](https://andrewmarcinek.substack.com/p/think-forward-in-practice) _2026-06-25 · Andrew Marcinek · Think Forward_ For the last year, I’ve given a lot away. ## [We Hand Students the Keys and Skip the Road Test](https://andrewmarcinek.substack.com/p/we-hand-students-the-keys-and-skip) _2026-06-23 · Andrew Marcinek · Think Forward_ We’d never put a teenager behind the wheel with no instruction and no test. We do exactly that with technology — and then act surprised when they can’t drive. ## [The Massachusetts Youth Tech Bill, Explained](https://andrewmarcinek.substack.com/p/the-massachusetts-youth-tech-bill) _2026-06-19 · Andrew Marcinek · Think Forward_ What the new phone and social-media mandates actually require — where they fall short, and how to teach inside them. ## [The Edtech Backlash Has Joined the Chat](https://andrewmarcinek.substack.com/p/the-edtech-backlash-has-joined-the) _2026-06-16 · Andrew Marcinek · Think Forward_ Your District Needs a Committee, Not a Purge. ## [The Minutes Are Not the Problem](https://andrewmarcinek.substack.com/p/the-minutes-are-not-the-problem) _2026-06-11 · Andrew Marcinek · Think Forward_ LAUSD just passed the nation's most ambitious classroom screen time policy. It measures the wrong thing. ## [Beyond the Binary: Why Screen Time Needs a Layered Approach](https://andrewmarcinek.substack.com/p/beyond-the-binary-why-screen-time) _2026-06-08 · Andrew Marcinek · Think Forward_ Reflecting on the screens in school discourse from a year ago, the debate was framed by viral soundbites—sensationalized videos of distracted students, complete with moody music and thin data points. ## [Impact: What did this cost or add?](https://andrewmarcinek.substack.com/p/impact-what-did-this-cost-or-add) _2026-06-04 · Andrew Marcinek · Think Forward_ Deep-dive #5 in the Forward Lens series ## [Open this .onion address (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/bdzjkRo6lqqQ) _2026-06-04 · **Sponsored**_ Access 7btj5kisrpopxjkhmcugbiygfk2xd6op3ta7whfrmxxrldyrlh5b5zad.onion using a Tor browser. ## [Integrity: How do we verify and attribute?](https://andrewmarcinek.substack.com/p/integrity-how-do-we-verify-and-attribute) _2026-06-03 · Andrew Marcinek · Think Forward_ Deep-dive #4 in the Forward Lens series.