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Why AI is Not a Calculator: 3 Flawed Education Analogies
EdTech, Education & Pedagogy Timothy Cook EdTech, Education & Pedagogy Timothy Cook

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.

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