When a child is on a sports team, they don’t have a robot do the drills for them; they do the drills themselves even though they’re hard and often boring. We should be able to make education inspire that same engagement.
This is exactly the kind of conversation we need—not just about AI’s outputs, but about the systems that shape how we respond to uncertainty.
As a school leader, I see how quickly “productive struggle” gets shut down—not by students, but by the pressure our systems place on pace, compliance, and quick results.
That’s why I built CRAFT—a framework to help schools design systems that can hold discomfort, clarity, and care at the same time.
We won’t get better thinking from students until we build systems that breathe with them.
Thanks once again for your thoughtful post. Today I met with the Provost of my university to talk about AI integration into education. I emphasized the importance of the AI evangelist and an early community of practice, empowered with the best AI for learning tools, for growing a commitment to AI's use in higher education. But, I suggested that the classroom must remain 'human' only.
Danny's Type 2 learning is exactly the type of learning that must be present in the classroom. Not content related - but about thinking, problem-solving, communicating, debating, presenting, etc... I say "AI for content initial content learning" and slow learning connected to people for everything else.
When a child is on a sports team, they don’t have a robot do the drills for them; they do the drills themselves even though they’re hard and often boring. We should be able to make education inspire that same engagement.
This is exactly the kind of conversation we need—not just about AI’s outputs, but about the systems that shape how we respond to uncertainty.
As a school leader, I see how quickly “productive struggle” gets shut down—not by students, but by the pressure our systems place on pace, compliance, and quick results.
That’s why I built CRAFT—a framework to help schools design systems that can hold discomfort, clarity, and care at the same time.
We won’t get better thinking from students until we build systems that breathe with them.
Thanks once again for your thoughtful post. Today I met with the Provost of my university to talk about AI integration into education. I emphasized the importance of the AI evangelist and an early community of practice, empowered with the best AI for learning tools, for growing a commitment to AI's use in higher education. But, I suggested that the classroom must remain 'human' only.
Danny's Type 2 learning is exactly the type of learning that must be present in the classroom. Not content related - but about thinking, problem-solving, communicating, debating, presenting, etc... I say "AI for content initial content learning" and slow learning connected to people for everything else.