Tim Dasey, Ph.D.
Understand the intelligence education works with
BOOKS
What's going on when AI converses with us, and students should learn about it.
The curriculum paradigm AI demands.
What AI is, how it thinks and learns, and why that matters beyond prompting.
Why AI makes wisdom, not knowledge, the goal of education.
THE AI WISDOM SERIES
Understanding AI from the roots up
Each volume stands alone, but they build. Volume 3, on autonomous agents and AI at organizational scale, is forthcoming.
You approach a stranger looking for help. What do they need to know? What are they good at, and when are they likely to mess up? What strategy should you bring to the conversation? Can you tell when they're wrong? How do you make sure your values get applied to their work?
Working with AI is like dealing with a peculiar stranger, and the lessons of thinking carefully about people transfer to AI much of the time. There's another way to educate about AI—a way that isn't captive to today's tools. Because even though AI is different from human intelligence, they each have to deal with similar issues to address challenges and understand the world. This book explains those overlaps and shows how to teach them in any subject, at any grade level.
"AI Wisdom Volume 2 operates at the meta-level, unpacking the primary operating principles of today’s LLMs, showing the reader how those principles are both alike in some ways and dissimilar in others to the human mind, and then offering practical suggestions for what this all looks like for learners engaging with LLMs in their education. If you want a glimpse into a future-that-is-now, to begin exploring the paradigm shift coming for education that is human+AI interaction, there is no better place to start."
Patrick Demsey, EdD, Founder and Co-CEO, Pend AI
"Dasey does what most AI education frameworks refuse to do: he goes deep. His roots-to-canopy model reframes the conversation: instead of asking how we add AI to what we already teach, he forces us to ask what learners actually need to think well with AI, both in this moment and ten years from now. This is the framework we've been waiting for!"
Susan Ray, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof. of English, Delaware County Community College
AI WISDOM
Volume 1
Meta-Principles of Thinking and Learning
Teach about intelligence, not just prompts
Before you can work with AI, you need to understand what it is. This book covers how AI recognizes patterns, represents knowledge, creates, and errs — and why those mechanisms matter more than any product feature. It draws the parallels between artificial and human intelligence that make AI teachable in every subject without requiring a separate AI course.
"Anyone who has spent time with Tim knows he is a great thinker. A must read book."
Sofia Fenichell, Founder and CEO, StudyHall.AI
"Should the focus be less on using AI to teach current curriculum and more how to prepare students for a world where they will work with hyper intelligent machines? Yes. It's why I find Tim Dasey's work so important."
Stefan Bauschard, AI Education Policy Consultant, Debate instructor
"I can say this is the book we've been waiting for…This isn't just another book about AI tools - it's a masterclass in preparing students for an AI-augmented future”
Sam Liberty, Northeastern University game design instructor and independent gaming consultant.
"I read an early version. It's great."
Jason Gulya, Professor of English & Applied Media at Berkeley College, Ai consultant for colleges
"I highly recommend this book. It is different from most other AI in education books out there in that there is a deep connection between what AI really is and what we should teach people about it."
Pat Yongpradit, Chief Academic Officer at Code.org, Lead of TeachAI
I can heartily recommend this book by Tim! He’s clear, insightful, and well worth reading!
Paul Matthews, History teacher, Tasmania
Read excerpts
A Metaphor for AI Learning · Ingredient #1 for Teaching AI Wisdom · AI Errors · What is Creativity
2026 CONTRIBUTED CHAPTER
What Education Becomes
Teaching and Learning in the AI Era
Tim's contribution—"What Curriculum Goals Matter When AI is Pervasive?" (Chapter 1)—argues that when AI handles execution, curriculum can no longer be lists of topics to cover. It becomes experience architecture—the design of challenges that build intuitive judgment through varied practice, failure, and reflection. The chapter traces how AI dissolves educational pillars (enforceable homework, standardized pacing, teacher-as-expert) and proposes what could replace them.
2023 BOOK
Wisdom Factories
AI, Games, and the Education of a Modern Worker
AI is threatening the need for human expertise, but it is no match for human wisdom. The problem is that learning wisdom requires very different schooling, and many people are bad at the needed skills. AI advances rapidly, while humans and our institutions evolve slowly. The time to catch up is dwindling, and without wisdom, workers risk obsolescence in a rapidly changing job market. Tim considers future capabilities of AI and the resulting skill needs, the underlying principles of wisdom, and the necessary strategies for transformation.