Beyond bans and permissions: Designing AI that teaches students to think
In every other industry, we optimise to eliminate friction. In education, friction is the point. There is a concept in pedagogy called productive struggle — that zone where a student is challenged enough to stay engaged, but not so overwhelmed that they quit. It is there that new neural pathways are built. When AI delivers the answer in three seconds, it bypasses the zone entirely.
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