Memorizing facts is becoming less important than knowing how to ask the right questions and evaluate AI-generated responses. Yet this same technology that can accelerate learning also risks creating dependency if we don’t learn to leverage it strategically.

Here are some questions we can be asking as parents about the tools our kids are using:

• Is it embedded in real curriculum, or just tacked on to fill time (and allow schools to say they are “using AI”)?


• Does it help my kid do more thinking, reading, and writing—or less?


• Does it give teachers better insight and assistance, or push them to the margins?


• Do

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AI as interlocutor. As the thing that helps you understand what you’ve already noticed, or points you toward resources you didn’t know existed.

The 1970s math teachers who adapted to calculators didn’t ban the technology or embrace it uncritically. They asked: What does this tool make possible, and what does it make too easy? Then they restructured... See more