A reflection on learning · 2025

Rethinking
AI in the
classroom.

How a quieter kind of tool might shift the way a school sees itself — and the way we learn inside it.

A short talk 01 / 05
Photograph · Unsplash
01 Introduction · A different kind of tool

Not a magic
answer machine.
A companion.

Hello, everyone. Today I'd like to introduce how AI tools could help us in school — and in turn, how they might quietly improve the way we view our school.

Not as something that does the work for us. But as something that sits alongside the work we already do, and helps us see it more clearly.

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02 The misconception · It isn't a shortcut

It isn't a
shortcut.

AI tools aren't just random "type and get the solution" machines. From my own observation, only a small slice of the school treats them that way — but they happen to be the loudest slice.

The point isn't to ban the tool. It's to redirect it.

15–20%
of people at school, by my own observation, still use AI as a way to skip the work — not to understand it.
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03 A better use · Find the baseline first

Find the
baseline first.

Teachers can use AI to test students — to quietly check their real understanding of a subject. Then, depending on those marks, AI can support each student from that baseline upward.

i.
Test
→
ii.
Understand
→
iii.
Support
— A student, a notebook, and the work of figuring it out.
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— In closing —

Used with care, AI isn't a shortcut. It's a starting point.

Thank you  ·  05 / 05