I loved Dr. Philippa Hardman’s article on “How Your Learners *Actually* Learn with AI.” This particular start and stops is one I wholeheartedly see daily in my own use of AI Supported Cognition, as she terms it:

Stop assigning tasks where the main cognitive move is producing a clean output (summary, slide deck, short answer).

Start designing “show-your-thinking” activities which require learners to (1) predict an answer before using AI, (2) use AI for a hint or counterexample, then (3) revise their reasoning and label what changed.

All of these start and stops are gold. Here’s a quick overview of them but read her article in its entirety to really get the insights.

One of Dr. Philippa Hardman’s key points resonates:

AI is filling real gaps in the learning support infrastructure, not creating artificial demand.

Those gaps…