Young people are not AI natives. Nobody is.

Young people are not AI natives. Nobody is.

The easiest way to think about school stuff is the old backpack test: folders in four colors, Five Star notebooks with the plastic cover, colored pens, Sharpies, agendas, journals, and a teacher who wanted things done a certain way. The point wasn’t just having supplies; it was being taught organization, with a Roman numeral outline before the essay and weekly checks on whether the system actually held together.

Then the paper became a laptop. And the old assumption changed with it. A messy binder used to read as a skill still being learned. Now, the same basic problem can disappear into a machine that can create fifty folders in a minute and never open one again.

That’s the school AI question in plain English: if the tools make the burden vanish, schools still have to decide what they want students to learn, and how they’ll teach it.

Gobble's Take: If a binder had to prove itself every week, a laptop full of invisible folders is not a magic answer — it’s a new classroom problem with old homework attached. Source: Designing Schools

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