Don’t Throw Ed Tech Babies Out With the Bathwater
Teacher workload, student thinking, product evidence and family communication are treated separately.
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Natalie Wexler
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How Should AI Be Used in Schools?
Examples of planning and writing ask which cognitive tasks can appropriately be delegated.
How Alpha School Teaches Writing
The critique asks whether interest-driven writing loses opportunities to consolidate curriculum knowledge.
Is Relying on AI Cognitive “Offloading” or “Outsourcing”?
Outlines illustrate a distinction between external memory support and delegating the thinking itself.
Do Students Who Rely on ChatGPT “Benefit”?
Wexler challenges interpreting better submitted prose as improved writing ability.
The Writing Effect
Writing’s retrieval and elaboration benefits must be balanced against novice cognitive load.
Historical reference: AI-Generated Summaries Are a Problem—for Authors and Society as a Whole
An author’s inspection of generated book companions reveals losses beyond factual accuracy.