AI in Education
ChatGPT in classrooms, AI tutoring systems, plagiarism detection arms races, learning assessment automation, and the deeper question of what education means when students have access to systems that can generate any assignment on demand.
AI Is Helping Students Perform — and Weakening What They Actually Learn
Research on 'cognitive debt' shows AI-assisted students score higher but retain less — and the grades obscure which outcome is actually happening.
- ·AI assistance improves short-term task performance while measurably reducing retention and persistence.
- ·The 'cognitive debt' concept names a structural problem that grades alone cannot surface.
- ·Educators need retention-based assessment tools — current grading infrastructure measures the wrong outcome.
The AI-in-Education Argument Is Not About Cheating Anymore
Teachers now oppose classroom AI at majority levels, but the sharpest voices have moved past integrity debates to ask whether the institution itself is salvageable.
AI Moves Into the LMS Before Higher Ed Has a Policy to Meet It
Federal funding pressure is pushing AI into university infrastructure faster than institutions can build governance to contain it.
The AI Cheating Lawsuit That Landed in Silicon Valley
A Palo Alto family's civil rights suit over a flawed AI detector is forcing schools to confront what false accusations actually cost students.
The Simpsons Analogy Worked Perfectly and Changed Nothing
A teacher's clever AI-cheating analogy landed with exhausted recognition and zero behavioral change — exposing why moral framing is the wrong tool for an assessment design problem.