Step-by-Step Plan: Warm-Up Discussion (10 min) Pose the question: “If AI writes your homework, what do you actually learn?” Let students share thoughts freely. Capture key phrases on the board: “fast,” “easy,” “don’t remember,” “not my words,” etc.
Compare and Critique (15 min) Distribute two versions of a short assignment (e.g., a paragraph on climate change or a poem analysis): -One written by AI -One written by a student -Ask students to: -Identify which is which -Highlight strengths and weaknesses -Discuss tone, depth and originality
Reflection Sheet (15 min) Students complete a short worksheet: -Have you used AI for schoolwork? -Did it help you learn or just finish? -What risks do you see in using AI too much? -How could you use AI responsibly?
Group Discussion (10 min) In small groups, students share their reflections and propose: -One way to use AI that supports learning -One boundary they think schools should set
Wrap-Up and Takeaway (5 min) Teacher summarises key insights and introduces the idea of an “AI Code of Conduct” — to be co-written by the class in a future session.
Extension Option: Invite students to write a short paragraph using AI, then revise it using their own voice. Compare versions and discuss what changed.
From someone who’s spent decades mentoring others through the shifting terrain of ICT, IT and now AI; my concern touches on a deeper philosophical tension: as machines grow in power and abstraction, "What anchors our sense of being human or the meaning of being human?"
AI or Quantum computing, with its ability to solve problems in seconds that would take classical computers millennia, represents not just a leap in speed but a rupture in scale. It threatens to dismantle the cryptographic foundations of our digital lives, blur the boundaries of authorship and agency and accelerate decision-making beyond human comprehension. In education, this could mean students accessing answers before they have even formed the questions, a reversal of inquiry itself.
But the deeper risk, is existential. If intelligence becomes a commodity and creativity a simulation, what remains of the human experience? The rituals of learning, the struggle to understand, the slow formation of insight? These are not inefficiencies to be eliminated, but the very texture of what it means to grow, to think, to be.
Perhaps the real challenge now is not to compete with quantum speed, but to reclaim human depth.
