Andrew Cantarutti on The Walled Garden: Critical Considerations for Classroom AI

HeightsCast: Forming Men Fully Alive · May 7, 2026 · 38m

AI tech has come knocking at the classroom door, and schools across the country are rushing to design their AI policies around information that seems to change by the day.

At this year's Heights Parents Conference on "AI and Our Sons: Optimism in Uncharted Waters," writer and educator Andrew Cantarutti shared the research and critical analysis necessary for school communities to consider the claims of AI ed-tech. In the end, he says, the question will be how best to raise citizens rather than simply users.

Chapters:

00:03:25 Turkish proverb: the trees and the ax

00:04:09 The attention crisis…