About the educator

Dan Corrieri

Secondary school Communications Technology teacher · Media educator · Creator of the Learning Intelligence Framework

My story

Teaching for a changing media landscape

I’m a secondary school Communications Technology teacher with the York Region District School Board in Ontario, where I teach film, television, photography, graphic design, audio production, and emerging media. My work focuses on helping students develop the creative, technical, and critical thinking skills they need to navigate a rapidly changing media landscape.

Before becoming an educator, I spent more than 13 years in the entertainment industry, working in production, talent management, and digital media. In 1999, I helped found FilmPort Technologies, an early virtual production office platform that explored how emerging web and mobile technologies could improve communication and collaboration in film and television production.

Those experiences continue to shape my teaching. I’ve seen that technologies change quickly, but meaningful learning still depends on curiosity, sound judgment, creativity, and thoughtful choices.

I created the Learning Intelligence Framework to help educators and students navigate the age of AI with those principles in mind. Rather than centring a particular tool, the framework emphasizes human thinking, ethical choices, transparency, creative ownership, and making the learning process visible.

The motivation behind the work

Why this became personal

When ChatGPT appeared in November 2022, my earlier work in entertainment and technology helped me recognize how significant this development might become. But the question that mattered most to me was personal: What were my own children, and the students in my classroom, going to do and become in a world increasingly shaped by AI?

That question led to an ongoing period of learning, experimentation, and reflection. I began exploring ways to help students understand what AI is, when they should and should not use it, and how they could think more, not less, while working with intelligent systems.

The Learning Intelligence Framework grew from that work. It reflects my belief that AI can support learning and creativity, but students must remain responsible for their knowledge, judgment, decisions, and development.

Use it. Verify it. Judge it. Develop personal taste. Never surrender control to an intelligent system.

Experience into practice

The path behind the framework

My classroom practice brings together media production, education, and a longstanding interest in how emerging technologies change creative work.

In the classroom

Communications Technology education

I teach film, television, photography, graphic design, audio production, and emerging media as a secondary school teacher with the York Region District School Board in Ontario.

Industry experience

13+ years in entertainment

Before becoming an educator, I worked in production, talent management, and digital media, experience that still informs how I teach creative work and collaboration.

Early technology

FilmPort Technologies

In 1999, I helped found an early virtual production office platform that explored how web and mobile technologies could support film and television production.

Current work

The Learning Intelligence Framework

I created LIF to help educators and students work with AI while keeping human thinking, ethical judgment, transparency, and creative ownership at the centre.

What guides my work

Durable human skills for changing technologies

These qualities help students develop something beyond AI fluency: the intuition to know when AI is useful, when it should be questioned, and when human judgment must lead.

Curiosity

Ask better questions.

Judgment

Make thoughtful decisions.

Creativity

Develop a distinct human voice.

Responsibility

Own the process and the outcome.