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The Learner’s Apprentice is Heating Up the Charts!

Our most recent CMK Press book, The Learner’s Apprentice: AI and the Amplification of Human Creativity by Ken Kahn has been shooting up the best-seller lists on Amazon.com. The book has topped the New Releases in Curricula, Computers & Technology Education, and been as high as #2 in Education books!

If you have already purchased The Learner's Apprentice, we thank you. If you would be kind enough to leave a review on Amazon, we truly appreciate it! Reviews from real people help others who are searching for high-quality AI in education books.

Rave Reviews

Classroom educators, academics, and AI pioneers share glowing reviews of The Learner’s Apprentice​—read them here. Perhaps the best news of all is the readers who have begun posting examples of the work they have already done, based on the book’s hundreds of project ideas!

Sylvia Martinez and Ken Kahn Discuss The Learner’s Apprentice

CMK Press President and Editor Sylvia Martinez sat down with the author of The Learner's Apprentice, Ken Kahn, for a conversation about AI for learners and the ideas found in this book. In the video, Ken demonstrates some of the ways in which learners may collaborate with AI to enhance their creativity and solve previously unimaginable problems. Learn how easy it is to create playable games, have interactive adventures (in any language), make models and simulations, and much more—all without learning to code or use complex software. Watch the video ​here.

"Vibecoding" Causes Quite the Buzz

A recent New York Times article, Not a Coder? With A.I., Just Having an Idea Can Be Enough (gift article), resonates with many of the themes in The Learner’s Apprentice, and introduces the term “vibecoding,” as a way to describe co-creating software programs and apps with a chatbot without learning to code. The name has stirred debate—what do you think?

When an AI Expert Designs Software with his Grandchild

When The Learner’s Apprentice author Ken Kahn asked his four year-old granddaughter what sort of game she would like the computer to make, she suggested one involving butterflies and spider toilets. The game turned out pretty well, as did the inevitable AI-composed and performed country western song about poo and pee, “Unusual Rain.” Play the games, listen to the foot-tapping ditty, and learn how AI collaborated with a grandfather and granddaughter to create these instant classics here.

Revolutions are Seldom Cute

In his new essay, Revolutions are Seldom Cute, Gary Stager challenges conventional wisdom about innovation and shares exciting examples of how remarkable new software is democratizing computation. These ideas animate our upcoming institute, The Language of Computation - Constructing Modern Knowledge in Reggio Emilia (April 14-17, 2025).

Piaget, Logo, and Artificial Intelligence

In preparation for Constructing Modern Knowledge Australia (August 12-15, 2025), Gary Stager shares the antecedents for today’s discussions about learning with AI in CMK’s Roots: Logo, Piaget, and AI.
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Two Notable New Articles

• ​ChatGPT for students: learners find creative new uses for chatbots (Nature)
• ​‘I want him to be prepared’: why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI (The Guardian)

Sylvia Martinez & Gary Stager,

Co-hosts, Constructing Modern Knowledge Institutes