The Educator by Kathleen Killick

Ask a Year 5 student whether recess should be longer and you'll get an instant, excited answer. Ask them to write it down and something more interesting happens. Now they have to pick their strongest reason. They have to think about what the teacher on duty might say back. They have to find the words that will actually change someone's mind.

That's not just writing. That's critical and creative thinking in action.

It's also exactly the kind of work that's easiest to hand over to AI. Type in "write a persuasive piece arguing for a longer recess" and you'll have a response in seconds. The student gets a finished product but skips every decision that would have made them a better thinker.

As Federal Education Minister Jason Clare recently told The Educator, when students use AI to do their thinking for them, "That's not learning."

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