Gen AI in Education
Gen AI in education is most useful when educators pair practical experimentation with critical judgment, privacy awareness, and clear learning goals.
Gen AI in education is not just a tool-choice question. It is a teaching, learning, privacy, leadership, and judgment question. Miguel writes about Gen AI from the practical side: what educators can try, what leaders should ask, and where the claims need evidence before they become policy or practice.
This collection gathers posts about AI literacy, classroom use, prompting, professional learning, and responsible adoption. The focus is not on treating every new model as a revolution. The focus is on what changes when students, teachers, coaches, and school leaders can generate text, images, code, summaries, and plans in seconds.
Miguel’s perspective is that Gen AI belongs in education conversations, but not as a shortcut around thinking. The better question is how educators can use these tools while still protecting student privacy, preserving human judgment, and asking students to explain, connect, and extend their own understanding.
Important terms include Gen AI, AI literacy, prompting, cognitive offloading, workflow automation, and responsible adoption. Those terms matter because they separate classroom learning decisions from vendor hype.
Original Frameworks
- SHINE Framework: A lens for evaluating AI tools and adoption decisions.
Related Projects
- BoodleBox AI: Notes and resources related to practical AI platform use.
Start Here
- The AI Adoption Beatitudes: A reflective framework for responsible AI adoption.
- Roadmaps to AI Literacy: A starting point for thinking about AI literacy work.
- The Prompt Library: A collection of reusable prompt patterns and examples.
Recent Writing
- TCDLA 2026 - AI in Law
- Seven Questions Your Nonprofit Should Be Afraid to Ask This Summer, Part 5
- The Prompt Library
- Seven Questions Your Nonprofit Should Be Afraid to Ask This Summer, Part 4
- A Question of Judgment
- AI: A Mixed Blessing
- KPFT Radio Guest: AI, Critical Thinking, and More
- Seven Questions Your Nonprofit Should Be Afraid to Ask This Summer, Part 3
- MyNotes: Cognitive Surrender
- Seven Questions Your Nonprofit Should Be Afraid to Ask This Summer, Part 2
Questions People Ask
Should schools ban Gen AI?
Blanket bans rarely build judgment. Students and educators need protected time to learn when Gen AI helps, when it weakens thinking, and what privacy limits apply.
What should come before tool choice?
Start with the learning purpose, the people affected, the data involved, and the evidence needed to know whether the work improved.
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