AI Policy Exchange Forum
Didactics before tools: Redesigning teaching and assessment in the age of generative AI
Research and policy have become good at naming the cognitive risks that generative AI (GenAI) poses to learning. Namely, detrimental cognitive offloading, metacognitive laziness, and the illusion of competence. What this literature does much less well is tell teachers what to do with that knowledge in their everyday practice. This article argues that alongside AI literacy, regulation and safeguards protecting educational stakeholders, one of the central challenges facing education in the age of GenAI is related to …