ascd March 1, 2026 by Kristina Peterson
Why teaching students to document their AI use may be the most human part of literacy instruction today.
… AI might provide students with a product, but our job is to ensure students still own the process. In a world where creation can happen in seconds, it’s the charting—the reflection, documentation, and transparency—that shows us what they’ve really learned. Some students may push back on documenting their process or try to treat AI output as a final draft. But the point of this framework is to make that move harder to hide and easier to revise—and to keep the most human part of writing, the thinking, at the center. AI isn’t the problem. Uncharted thinking is.
