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}, { "title": "Introduce contemporary tools", "summary": "Use AI, research, coding, materials, and methods as working infrastructure, not decoration." }, { "title": "Require inspectable evidence", "summary": "Ensure the work becomes visible through outputs that can be reviewed and compared." }, { "title": "Coach revision and critique", "summary": "Use feedback, reflection, and iteration to raise the standard of what gets made." }, { "title": "Publish, archive, or productise", "summary": "Turn outcomes into portfolios, products, archives, presentations, or public knowledge." } ], "background": { "summaryParagraphs": [ "Ryan is an educator, writer, and curriculum designer based in Warsaw. His current work asks how schools can help young people build voice, judgement, resilience, and visible capability in an age of AI.", "His route into education runs through kitchens, diplomacy, food policy, sensory research, contemporary art, and school leadership. A PhD on the chemical senses in art and an MSc in Food Policy sit beside work with the UN World Food Programme, diplomatic hospitality, Chopin Vodka, Akademeia, NEO School Playa Grande, and Liceum Artes Liberales.", "The through-line is the design of learning environments that behave more like ateliers than classrooms: interdisciplinary, practical, relational, and evidence-rich. 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