AI in Education
ChatGPT in classrooms, AI tutoring systems, plagiarism detection arms races, learning assessment automation, and the deeper question of what education means when students have access to systems that can generate any assignment on demand.
AI Is Helping Students Perform — and Weakening What They Actually Learn
Research on 'cognitive debt' shows AI-assisted students score higher but retain less — and the grades obscure which outcome is actually happening.
- ·AI assistance improves short-term task performance while measurably reducing retention and persistence.
- ·The 'cognitive debt' concept names a structural problem that grades alone cannot surface.
- ·Educators need retention-based assessment tools — current grading infrastructure measures the wrong outcome.
The AI-in-Education Argument Is Not About Cheating Anymore
Teachers now oppose classroom AI at majority levels, but the sharpest voices have moved past integrity debates to ask whether the institution itself is salvageable.
The Simpsons Analogy Worked Perfectly and Changed Nothing
A teacher's clever AI-cheating analogy landed with exhausted recognition and zero behavioral change — exposing why moral framing is the wrong tool for an assessment design problem.
India Is Teaching 600,000 Parents AI Through Their Kids
Kerala's child-led AI literacy drive forces a structural choice other governments are avoiding: who absorbs the cost of speed.
AI Literacy Is Circling the Globe and Nobody Agrees What It Means
The phrase 'AI literacy' is doing global work without a shared definition, and the programs it names will diverge into incompatibility before any standard arrives.