Tag: artificial-intelligence
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is the most-cited educational goal of the AI era and the least clearly defined. Precision matters because the vague version is unteachable.
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Why AI Frameworks Fail Outside Demos
Every AI framework launches with a demo that borders on magic. Then you try to build something real with it. Why the gap between playground and production is structural, not a bug in any specific framework, and what actually closes it.
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The Homework Industrial Complex
Harris Cooper's homework research has been clear since 1989: most homework doesn't work. AI just made the inconvenient evidence impossible to ignore any longer.
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Higher Education Is About to Find Out What It Actually Sells
AI is separating knowledge access from credential from network from status signaling. Universities that can't articulate their unique value are in real trouble.
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The Personalization Trap
EdTech has promised personalized learning since the 1990s. AI brings this closer, but the concept itself may be built on a flawed theory of how learning works.
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What the Calculator Wars Actually Teach Us
The calculator debate is the closest historical parallel to AI in education. Getting that history right matters for understanding what comes next.
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The Teacher in the Age of AI
The teacher's role is changing, but not disappearing. AI makes some of what teachers do obsolete and amplifies the rest. Most schools have it backwards.
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AI Tools That Feel Smart but Make You Slower
Most AI productivity tools cost more time than they save, and the reason they don't feel that way is structural. How to time the real cycle, and the four conditions under which the tools genuinely help.
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Every Student Has an AI. Now What Actually Changes?
Universal AI access doesn't only change what students can cheat with. It changes what's worth learning, what a grade certifies, and which students pull ahead.
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What EdTech Companies Are Actually Selling
EdTech raised $20B in 2021 and mostly failed. AI EdTech is making the same promises with better vocabulary and almost nobody is asking why the last round collapsed.
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The Academic Integrity Crisis That Wasn't
The AI cheating panic runs on a sixty-year script: photocopiers, pocket translations, the web, now language models. Each round reveals what schools actually grade for, and it isn't learning.
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Why Schools Are Getting AI Wrong
Schools answered AI with honor codes and detection software. That's the wrong answer to the right question, and the twenty-year fight over calculators shows why.
