{"data":{"ID":1577,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1790802556,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"What Should Students Still Own in the Age of AI?","Handle":"what_should_students_still_own_in_the_age_of_ai","ShortDescription":"AI can produce more student work than ever, but what thinking, struggle, creativity, and decision-making should students still own? Participants will examine classroom scenarios and co-create a practical framework for deciding when AI supports learning and when it quietly replaces it.","Description":"Generative AI has made an old educational question newly urgent: what parts of learning should remain unmistakably the student\u2019s?\r\n\r\nThis conversation will not begin with a list of AI tools or policies. Instead, participants will examine classroom scenarios in which AI can brainstorm, explain, revise, code, calculate, research, or produce polished work. For each scenario, we will ask: What is the learning we actually value here? What should the learner still wrestle with? When does AI expand access or creativity, and when does it remove the intellectual work that produces growth?\r\n\r\nParticipants will bring perspectives from their own classrooms and schools. Small groups will sort scenarios along a continuum from \u201cAI strengthens the learning\u201d to \u201cAI replaces the learning,\u201d then challenge one another\u2019s assumptions. We will identify tensions around feedback, student agency, assessment, accessibility, creativity, and academic integrity.\r\n\r\nThe group will then co-create a simple student ownership framework educators can adapt when designing assignments or talking with students about AI. The goal is not one universal rule. It is to leave with better questions, shared vocabulary, and a practical process for thoughtful decisions.","Link":["https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/brettmichaelhannan","https:\/\/neiacademy.org\/team\/pietro-valastro\/"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"This session will be structured as a facilitated conversation rather than a lecture.\r\n\r\nParticipants will begin with a quick individual response to the question, \u201cWhat should a student never outsource to AI?\u201d Small groups will then receive classroom scenarios involving writing, research, mathematics, coding, feedback, brainstorming, and assessment. Groups will place each scenario along a continuum from \u201cAI strengthens learning\u201d to \u201cAI replaces learning\u201d and defend their decisions.\r\n\r\nGroups will rotate and challenge another group\u2019s conclusions. We will then identify areas of agreement, disagreement, and uncertainty. During the final portion, participants will collaboratively build a Student Ownership Framework containing questions educators and students can use when deciding whether and how AI belongs in a learning experience. The finished framework will be shared after the session so the conversation produces a resource that can continue evolving beyond EduCon.","Presenter":["Brett Michael Hannan","Peter Valastro"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Ursuline Academy","Dedham","Massachusetts; New England Innovation Academy","Marlborough","Massachusetts"],"PresenterEmail":["bhannan@ursulineacademy.net","pietro.valastro@neiacademy.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":null,"ScheduleLocationID":null,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"The session is intentionally tool-agnostic and non-commercial. Its focus is the learning decisions educators and students make around AI rather than the promotion of any platform. Participants will leave with the collaboratively developed Student Ownership Framework and the classroom scenarios used during the conversation.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":14}}