Perspectives
Perspectives features analysis from educational thought leaders, researchers, and practitioners who are shaping the future of human-centered learning in the AI era. We publish voices that challenge conventional thinking and offer practical frameworks for preserving what makes education distinctly human.
Teaching Students to Control AI
When my third-graders built their own AI learning coach, they spent a week stress-testing it; pushing boundaries, testing constraints, and making design decisions. They learned they control these tools. The AI doesn't make decisions. They do. Here's what 846 student interactions revealed about agency over automation.
Beyond Automation: Nurturing Human Wisdom in the Age of AI
AI can deliver knowledge instantly, but wisdom requires human judgment, creativity, and ethical reasoning. Drawing on research and real classroom examples, AI expert Anastasia Raissis explores how educators can integrate AI without replacing the cognitive effort essential for deep learning.
Professors Condemn Student AI Use While Secretly Relying on It Themselves
New research reveals 48.9% of professors automate grading with AI while prohibiting student use. This educational hypocrisy undermines institutional credibility.
Cultivating a Community of Critical Thinkers
The article emphasizes that true education should focus on developing students’ critical thinking rather than rote performance, which AI can easily replicate. Using frameworks like Peter Ellerton’s critical thinking matrix, it advocates for teaching skills such as analysis, evaluation, and self-regulation across all grades and subjects. Schools should prioritize authentic engagement, perspective-taking, and problem-solving—the human capacities AI cannot replicate. Cultivating these critical thinkers is presented as both an educational and civic responsibility.
AI "Safety" Serves Capital While Exploiting Children's Minds
MIT research shows ChatGPT dependency creates "soulless" thinking in students. Investigation reveals how AI safety rhetoric protects companies, not children's minds.
Pitfalls of AI-Generated Teaching Materials
Explore the double standard of AI in education: teachers using AI-generated materials while banning student use. Discover why IB programs need personalized, teacher-crafted resources over generic AI content for authentic learning.
The Culture of Trying: Why Failure is the Foundation of Learning
Human connection is the foundation of learning. This science teacher's approach to normalizing failure increased student test scores by 30 points.
AI Can't Teach Embodied Experience
In that moment of shared attention between teacher and student, something happens no algorithm could replicate: embodied understanding between humans.