AI killed the essay. So what do we teach now?
Oct 14
1 min read

I sat down with The AI-Augmented Scholar to talk about why the five-paragraph essay has run its course, why policing AI is a losing game, and why the work I want from students is hybrid intelligence: messy, imaginative, human thinking that uses AI as a tool and never hands it the whole job.
AI can simulate “what if.” It can’t yet do “what if.” That part still belongs to us.
Full 27-minute conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vvtlwHIWbg




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