Mark Jacobs teaches in both the Master’s in AI program and the undergraduate philosophy department. Before joining Clark, Mark founded Longview School in Brewster, New York—a democratic, student-centered middle and high school—serving as its director for 22 years. During that time, he designed and taught inquiry-based, project-driven curricula across English, history, and mathematics. He also brought immersive technologies into the classroom after securing grant funding for virtual reality headsets. Mark’s current research focuses on the use of customized large language models as dialogic learning companions and evaluators.
Conference Presentations:
June 2025 Italian Society for Social Studies of Science and Technology, Milan, Italy
- Panel Presentation: Redefining Relationships: Human Vulnerability and AI-driven Technologies LINK
April 2022 Alternative Education Resource Organization, Online Conference
- Keynote Speaker: “Ready Or Not Player One: Will Virtual Reality Improve or Destroy K-12 Education”
March 2018 European Democratic Education Conference Paris, France
- Keynote Speaker: “Curriculum and Democratic Education: Inconsistent or Compatible?” LINK
Publications:
Slated for Publication in 2026
Book Chapter in AI, Empathy and the Human Connection, Punisher: Springer Nature
- Chapter Title: “Designing LLMs for Deeper Human-AI Relationships: A Social Penetration Theory Approach”
Published
Special Moms’ Network, November 2016
- “Longview School: Real Inclusion for the 21st Century”
Community Works Journal, April 2014
- “An A for Effort? Grading Grades in the 21st Century”
Turning Points: 35 Visionaries in Education Tell Their Own Stories, 2010
- Chapter 14: “Inside-Out Learning”
Trusting Children, 2006
- Chapter 1: “What If Children Wanted to Learn”
- Chapter 14: “The Truth about Lying”
- Chapter 15: “Choices”