Paul Allison

Is it really that hard to imagine a teacher designing an inquiry that engages students in deep inquiry by using AI thought partners? I would suggest learning more about what students are being asked to do, and avoid making assumptions about what being forced to use AI means.

This Writing Partner (GPT) is really helping me to think about this Abstract. writingpartners.net/documents/85.... #eduskyAI #AIinEducation #edusky

Where to start?

Sam also brings his desire to show students a way of using AI for challenging themselves that goes beyond their use of AI on frontier, commercial products such as ChatGPT that he worries often undermines learning.
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Where might the ease with generating images be used to motivate or deepen understanding?

We frame all of this with a realpolitik focus on the logistics of using different platforms for different assignments in this unit of study.
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We consider where social annotation might be just what's needed and where we could design AI "mini-Coach Reeds" to provide additional support. Could these AI partners be use to help with vocabulary or to lead to understanding difficult concepts?
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Our conversation explores how using Writing Partners (with both the tools for social annotion and AI connections) might help students understand and engage with the material and with each other, especially those struggling with reading and comprehension.
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YouTube video by Paul Allison TTT 10.22.2025 Sam Reed Integrating AI into a unit about Jackie Robinson: The Man Who Broke Barriers

Educators Paul Allison, David Cole, and Sam Reed explore strategies for integrating AI into a reading and writing unit focused on Jackie Robinson and his values.
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youtu.be/gqUTDEJLvRY?...

“What we’re missing in most classes isn’t rules; it’s education about how AI can enhance our learning rather than replace it.” Let’s listen.

“Generative AI should not be banned outright, nor should it be embraced without thought. What we really need is guidance, resources, and practice in how to utilize it wisely.” This is the most sensible (from experience) nuanced treatment of AI that I have read. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Though it's a stretch for me to understand the metrics in this study, ever since I started reading, I keep returning to these ideas. Their "setup provides explicit estimates of uncertainty and benchmarks AI model by quantifying the synergy they provide to human interaction." doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Maybe AI Was Never a Tool Using artificial intelligence "responsibly" assumes it is just another tool—it isn't.

John Nosta unpacks the AI tool metaphor here: “This is the quiet revolution we’re living through. This is technology moving from external utility to internal participation.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-... #eduskyAI

Even if you can't read ahead of time:
Join us on TTT: Let's read and annotate "From Monsters to Mazes" together on Wednesday evening, October 1st at 8E/7C/6M/5P in Kumospace.com/youthvoices
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Two Ways to join the conversation:
Anytime, anywhere: Read and annotate the paper with us here: From Monsters to Mazes: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of AI Between Frankenstein and Kafka writingpartners.net/documents/85...
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I want to invite you to a conversation about AI through the lens of fiction. Gideon Dishon, the author of "From Monsters to Mazes" writingpartners.net/documents/85... in the abstract: "...fictional texts, can shape our shared imagination of possible and probable futures." #eduskyAI
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We are reading and annotating together.
We would love to see your marginalia on
From Monsters to Mazes: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of AI Between Frankenstein and Kafka
writingpartners.net/documents/85...
before we meet on Wednesday evening, October 1, at 8E/7C/6M/5P in Kumospace.com/youthvoices.

Why social annotation:“Intelligence—whether human or artificial—is inherently interactive, contextual, and collaborative. Sophisticated thinking rarely occurs in isolation; it emerges instead through dialogue, feedback, refinement, and the integration of diverse perspectives.” osf.io/preprints/ps...

YouTube video by Paul Allison TTT 09.24.2025 How many educators does it take to create an AI assistant?

“What we really need are nuanced approaches that center human agency and experience about how new technologies complicate and alter our habits and skills.” Three cheers for nuance! youtu.be/Fgxf_EJnYEU?...

Human Agency in the Age of AI When AI stands at the ready to do our work—and our thinking—for us, human agency is what keeps us drivers, not passengers, of the mind.

“AI can… be the ultimate training partner, a sparring partner for the mind that forces us to level up. The essential challenge is to keep agency at the center of the interaction and to make sure we are directing the conversation rather than outsourcing it.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

We invite you to meet Dr. Rachel Horst www.rachelhorst.ca with us on Wed. evening, September 17 at 8E/7C/6M/5P. We'll be meeting in Kumospace.com/youthvoices. www.kumospace.com/youthvoices?...
Join us to engage in a collaborative inquiry that seeks to move beyond binary thinking about AI.
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YouTube video by Paul Allison TTT 09.10.2025 We explore the use of AI in aiding students with writing college admissions essays

In this conversation Chris Sloan shares insights on how students in his AP English classes interact with AI-generated feedback, emphasizing the importance of students maintaining agency over their writing. youtu.be/JT9wH-Z5ChY #eduskyAI

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I don’t think our values are so different. I think we are finding ways to use AI that are consistent with the values you are clear about in your writing. The AI can be used to amplify those values about the power of meaningful communication in real world interactions.

Great. Please listen to the students. That is how we are learning the power of AI to enhance their learning.

What do you mean here? Are you saying that the human feedback from peers and students is somehow a simulation because it is in a classroom?

There are no rubrics involved with this feedback. Do you want to learn more about how we design them?

Have you talked with students who deeply care about their writing about how they experience using AI assistants alongside peer feedback & teacher response to spark their creativity, write for real audiences, and deepen their criticality? I have, and I see their passion for writing like never before.

Matt, can you please explain?

I wonder if you read the comments. I would love to talk with you more about what students are learning. I’m not sure how to share what many of us are seeing when the conversation ends up with people only seeing what supports their positions on AI. I will describe the joy students experience!

I am not sure what “kind of feedback” you see here. Could you please be more precise about which parts of one of these examples you might object to. What do you see as facile surface level? I would appreciate more explanation.