Where Cognitive Research Meets Classroom Practice
Applied research on what AI does to developing minds, and what organizations can build in response.
As AI systems handle routine cognitive tasks, schools face an urgent question: What is Education For?
The Writing
Perspectives on learning, education analysis, and what AI does to cognition.
Work With Me
The Dialogic Workshop, speaking, and AI adoption advisory for schools.
Free Tools
Open, privacy-first classroom tools. No logins, no data collection.
FEATUREDSpeaking & Media
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAZ)
Featured expert on AI and cognition, March 2026
Pennsylvania School Board Association
AI Implementation Needs a Human-Centered Approach
Council for Independent Colleges
Hyper Personalized Learning with AI (faculty)
Coaching Ethics Forum
AI Ethics at the Systems Level: Governance, Development, Democracy
Scholastic
Featured expert on AI and child development, forthcoming November 2026
Podcast
Multiple podcasts on AI, education, and building sustainable cognition
Publications
MIT Press (Forthcoming)
Built to Think
Psychology Today
The Algorithmic Mind, 30+ articles, 350K+ readers
The London School of Economics
Eager to please AI assistants smooth over the gaps in our thinking
VKTR (The Business of Enterprise AI)
AI Ethics and Law Risk, multiple publications
Sage Social Sciences
Teaching Students to Question the Machine
Chalkbeat
Timothy Cook
EDUCATOR · RESEARCHER · SPEAKERTimothy Cook is the Director of the Cognitive Privacy Project, Connected Classroom, and a practicing educator. His book Built to Think is forthcoming from MIT Press. He writes "The Algorithmic Mind" column for Psychology Today, reaching over 350,000 readers. His work focuses on the human capabilities that must be developed, and how organizations can deliberately build them.