Thoughts on AI, Cognition, and Human DevelopmentPerspectives on Learning
Perspectives features analysis from thought leaders, researchers, and practicing educators who are committed to defining the future of humanity-centered learning.
Traditional Education Won’t Survive AI
We are training teachers to use AI the same way we are warning students not to. A report from one conference room, and what two new studies say about who loses the most.
Why AI is Not a Calculator: 3 Flawed Education Analogies
In every conference session and staff meeting, you hear the same three comparisons: AI is like the printing press, the calculator, or Google Search. But these analogies are fundamentally flawed. Comparing tools that externalized mechanical tasks to a technology that externalizes human reasoning is a dangerous permission structure for institutional inaction, especially when it comes to the developing minds of children.
AI is Stealing the Variance from Our Classrooms
When adults offload tasks to AI, they experience cognitive atrophy, the slow degradation of an already established skill. But when children rely on AI, they face cognitive foreclosure, closing the door on developing critical thinking capacities in the first place. Here is why protecting student agency and cognitive friction is the most urgent challenge in education today.
How Socratic Dialogue Can Restore Critical Thinking
Students increasingly delegate high-level thinking to AI while doing only basic tasks. This "inverted learning" weakens critical cognitive muscles. Teachers can reframe AI as a dialogue partner, not a thinker.