→ Why must attention become the curriculum of our schools?

→ How are classrooms disrupting student attention and learning?

→ What is the important choice that our schools and districts must make?

About this guest, Andrew Cantarutti

Andrew is an educator and writer with over a decade of experience teaching in public and private schools across Canada and the world. His work bridges classroom practice with educational theory, drawing on insights from philosophy, developmental psychology, and cognitive science to reimagine how learning environments can cultivate focus, depth, and intellectual resilience. 

Connect with Andrew Cantarutti

• on LinkedIn, 
• on X @walledgardenedu, 
• on Instagram @walledgardenedu, and 
• at https://walledgardenedu.substack.com.

In This Conversation

• 0:00:00 – Andrew Cantarutti is an educator and writer with international experience
• 1:12 – Imagining schools as walled gardens for deep attention and critical thinking
• 4:54 – Teacher reactions to “Why Attention Must Become Curriculum”
• 7:38 – How are we disrupting student attention in the classroom?
• 12:49 – Why schools must avoid the Marketplace Mirror Model
• 16:29 – Gamification of learning, “engagement”
• 18:22 – How do we make attention the curriculum itself?
• 27:19 – Andrew on the role of AI in schools 
• 34:29 – The choice facing schools today
• 37:56 – Where to connect with Andrew Cantarutti online

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