{"product_id":"hands-on-the-wheel-a-human-centered-guide-to-ai-in-the-classroom-hardcover","title":"Hands on the Wheel: A Human-Centered Guide to AI in the Classroom - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDouglas Kiang\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNo school asked for this.\u003c\/strong\u003e The tools showed up uninvited, and assignments that had worked for years stopped working overnight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHands on the Wheel\u003c\/em\u003e is a working teacher's answer. Douglas Kiang has spent more than thirty-five years in classrooms, from kindergarten through college, and he wrote this book the way he teaches: make something first, then report honestly on what happened. The premise underneath it is simple and uncomfortable. \u003cem\u003eYou cannot teach what you will not touch.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore the book says a word about what students should do, it asks you to create something of your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe argument moves through five parts: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFace It\u003c\/strong\u003e looks squarely at what AI has already broken, and treats it as a design problem rather than a discipline problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUse It\u003c\/strong\u003e puts the tool in your hands, in your subject, because the judgment you need to guide students comes only from making things yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTeach It\u003c\/strong\u003e turns personal practice into classroom practice, with mechanics you can run on Monday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eQuestion It\u003c\/strong\u003e is the honest, hard core that most books skip, where Kiang takes on every serious objection before making his case.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLead It\u003c\/strong\u003e is for anyone trying to move a whole faculty, where real change is bottom-up and grief usually comes before adoption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories are real. A student who took one intro programming course and shipped an app for people suffering from glaucoma. A team that gave up using AI on a project because they cared too much about the person they were building it for. A colleague who tried to AI-proof the research paper she had assigned for twenty years and inadvertently made it better than ever. Kiang also shows exactly how he used AI in developing this book, because it's the clearest demonstration he can offer of the argument in practice: AI in the hands of someone who stays in charge of the work makes the work better, not lesser.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach chapter ends with a \u003cstrong\u003eRun It\u003c\/strong\u003e section: one concrete move for yourself, your students, and your colleagues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor classroom teachers, department chairs, instructional coaches, and school leaders who want a clear-eyed guide, not a panic and not a sales pitch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Practical enough to use tomorrow, honest enough to trust.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eFrom the Foreword by Adam Cannon, Columbia University\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDouglas Kiang\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning Computer Science and AI educator at Menlo School in Silicon Valley, with more than thirty-five years of teaching experience across independent schools at every grade level. He served on the Development Committee for the AP Computer Science Principles course and has been a Research Fellow at the MIT Teaching Systems Lab and a CS50 Teaching Fellow at Harvard University. His honors include a 2015 NCWIT Educator Award and a Hawaii nomination for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the highest recognition the U.S. government gives K-12 teachers. He is also an Apple Distinguished Educator and a Microsoft Global Minecraft Mentor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDouglas has keynoted and led day-long workshops at schools around the world, helping educators integrate AI in ways that keep student agency, empathy, and collaboration at the center. Hands on the Wheel is his guide to doing exactly that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 164\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 31, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923756384563,"sku":"9798997236625","price":54.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/sSNA5Z3ZSh9798997236625.webp?v=1793825647","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/hands-on-the-wheel-a-human-centered-guide-to-ai-in-the-classroom-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}