education

From “You Should” to “Let’s Notice”

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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How can we flourish in an AI age?

We all want kids who flourish. For that we need two things:

• To create the conditions for flourishing


• Metrics that measure flourishing beyond academics

This is where our thinking about education feels strangely outdated. We still talk about it as preparation for the labor market. As if the point is to produce workers who can compete economically. But that frame starts to wobble the moment machines take over most cognitive labor.

If machines do the work, what remains is not work. What remains is... See more