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One problem, four ways of seeing it
The same situation, framed four times. Each framing makes different things visible, and different things invisible. The last one tries to hold all three strands at once.
The situationA school wants to increase the use of generative AI.
Conventional framing
Which AI tools should teachers use?
Futuring
What plausible educational environments could exist when AI assistance becomes ubiquitous, cheap, embedded, or invisible?
Complexity
Which incentives, professional practices, assessment structures, infrastructure constraints, parent expectations, student behaviours, and policy decisions interact with adoption?
Ways of thinking
Is “increasing AI use” actually the right problem?
Should the objective instead concern capability, judgement, productivity, learning quality, or readiness?
Integrated framing
What educational capabilities should become stronger in a world where AI assistance is commonplace, and what changes to curriculum, assessment, teacher practice, policy, infrastructure, and learner behaviour would make those capabilities more likely to develop?
Where next
Follow this idea
Evidence
AI in learning products (opens in a new tab)Guide
Operationalise it
Moves for thinking about educational changeTool
Related argument
Which decisions should AI make, which should it support, and which should remain deliberately human?Question
Challenge it
Innovation should be novelCounterposition