Until recently, students had to do the hard part of schoolwork themselves: coming up with the idea, working through the problem, writing the draft and refining it. That effort built knowledge and understanding, and no tool could do it for them. Now one can. A student can hand in finished work without doing any of the thinking the task was meant to build.

If left unaddressed, this problem will likely grow every year. Students will miss the chance to build important knowledge and understanding, and settle into habits of cognitive outsourcing that may be hard to undo.

After a lot of noise about AI, this is the moment to look at it with a level head, from what we know about how people learn. The research is clear about which learning processes matter most, and the way students now use AI, often without meaning to, works against those processes. Students and parents will ask every adult in the school about AI this year, and without a shared way of thinking, they will get different answers depending on who they ask. This session gives your whole staff that shared way of thinking it through.

Join Simon live online on 27 January, or use the recording and facilitation guide to run the workshop with your staff at a time that suits your school.

Online Professional Development Workshop

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