A careful view of AI in education

Use AI where a mistake is cheap and visible: brainstorming examples you will check, turning a messy note into a list you will edit, or offering a learner a question about their own paragraph. Do not use it to invent citations, mark high-stakes work without a human reading, or produce an assignment a student will submit as theirs.

Teachers need a spoken policy. Learners should know when a tool is allowed, what must remain their thinking, and how to disclose help. A ban no one can enforce teaches secrecy. A freedom with no disclosure teaches that authorship does not matter. The middle is specific: this task allows a tool for X, and the submitted words must show Y.

There is also a professional use that is easy to overstate. A model summary of a paper you have not read is not a literature review. If you cannot find the source, you do not have the source. That rule is older than the tool.