Teaching With AI: A Solution
Teachers often worry that students will use AI to bypass the hard work of learning. The truth is, the solution is simpler than it seems: design tasks where AI isn’t an escape hatch but a collaborator.
When students are encouraged to bring AI into every stage of the process—ideation, refinement, testing, development, delivery—they learn to use it as an extension of their own thinking. They’re not hiding behind the tool; they’re working with it, in the open. The focus shifts from “catching” to “coaching.”
The other half of the balance is just as important: create spaces where the products of learning are tested without technology. In these moments, students demonstrate what they’ve internalised, what they can carry without support.
This rhythm—partnering with AI through the journey, then standing without it at the destination—reshapes the classroom. It replaces anxiety with clarity, suspicion with trust. Most importantly, it builds students who are not just capable with new tools, but resilient without them.
