{"data":{"ID":1576,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1790794789,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Who Owns the Question? AI, Curiosity, and Student Agency","Handle":"who_owns_the_question-ai-curiosity-and_student_agency","ShortDescription":"AI can answer almost any question, but what happens when we stop asking what AI can answer and start asking what learners want to discover? Through stories, reflection, and conversation, we\u2019ll explore how curiosity, lived experience, and AI can help students take greater ownership of their learning.","Description":"We are entering a time when answers are increasingly easy to generate. But if AI can answer almost anything, perhaps the more important educational question is: Who owns the question?\r\n\r\nI\u2019ll begin with a personal story about a moment when someone else\u2019s words shaped what I believed I could do, and how, decades later, listening to the stories behind our experiences helped me reclaim my own voice and sense of possibility.\r\n\r\nFrom there, we\u2019ll explore what this means for students growing up with AI. What happens when we shift from giving students questions to helping them discover questions worth pursuing? \r\n\r\nHow might stories, lived experiences, interests, images, and AI become pathways for students to uncover their own \u201cSpark Points\u201d as the moments that reveal what makes them curious, what they value, and what they want to explore?\r\n\r\nThe focus isn't on using AI to replace thinking. It is on using AI as a mirror, a thinking partner, and a pathway for exploration while keeping human curiosity, judgment, choice, and agency at the center.\r\n\r\nTogether, we'll wrestle with the possibilities and tensions: \r\n\r\nHow do we create learning environments where AI expands agency rather than quietly taking it away? \r\n\r\nWhat should remain deeply human? \r\n\r\nHow might we help students become authors and architects of their learning rather than simply consumers of answers?","Link":["https:\/\/barbarabray.net"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"I will begin with a short personal story and one question: \u201cWho owns the question?\u201d \r\n\r\nParticipants will first have a few moments of individual reflection before turning to a partner or small group to explore their responses.\r\n\r\nWe will then use a shared Google Doc as a collective thinking space. Participants will add questions, tensions, examples, and possibilities under three headings:\r\n\r\n1. What should AI help us discover?\r\n2. What should remain deeply human?\r\n3. How do we protect and grow student agency?\r\n\r\nRather than presenting a prescribed framework, I will use the stories and ideas in the room to shape the conversation. I\u2019ll periodically pause to surface patterns, contradictions, and questions emerging from the group. We will use another Google Doc or a Padlet to collect any stories and ideas from participants.\r\n\r\nWe will close by returning to the opening question: \u201cWho owns the question?\u201d and ask participants to identify one shift they might make in their own learning environment.","Presenter":["Barbara Bray"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Grow Your WHY"],"PresenterEmail":["barbara.bray@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":null,"ScheduleLocationID":null,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"I was a presenter and attendee at EduCon several times. I learned so much from the deep conversations.\r\n\r\nThrough my work as a coach, writer, speaker, and podcast host, I enjoy the stories people share with me about living on purpose and empowering learners of all ages to develop agency. \r\n\r\nI am the co-author of two books on personalized learning and the author of two books: Define Your WHY and Grow Your WHY. I am the podcast host of the Grow Your WHY Podcast (previously the Rethinking Learning Podcast).  I have almost 200 episodes and am a founding member of the Human Intelligence Movement.  \r\n\r\nI hope I get accepted to lead this conversation because AI is my thought partner. I discovered firsthand how easy it was to become reliant on AI's support and how important it is to keep the human in the mix.\r\n\r\nWhen AI makes answers easier, our job may be less about teaching students how to find answers, and more about helping them discover which questions are worth pursuing.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":14}}