AI in Higher Education
Reflections on technology, learning, and the humans.
AI in Education — My Perspective as a Student¶
Artificial Intelligence is changing the world in ways that few could have predicted even five years ago. It feels like we are living in the future! I am a strong advocate for AI usage and believe that machine learning algorithms have a great capacity to bless lives everywhere. That being said, my support of AI is not blind to the many issues that arise from these new technologies.
Some major decisions revolve around creativity, intellectual property, and education, while there is much to be said about the first two, I am currently a college student so I have chosen to focus on AI in higher education.
A blessing and a curse¶
I am cautiously optimistic. AI tools have incredible power to personalize learning, lower administrative overhead, and help students learn across a wider range of materials. Some of my concerns about AI include
- Academic integrity & Critical thinking — How do we preserve the value of struggle and original thinking?
- Teacher autonomy — AI should assist educators, not replace their professional judgment.
- Data privacy — Student data deserves the highest level of protection.
The Core Tension¶
The question before us isn't whether AI belongs in schools, the answer to that is yes — it's how can we use AI in a way that builds and supports human development rather than limiting it. Technology has always changed education: the printing press, the calculator, the internet. Each shift required massive changes in thinking from educators to decide what is worth teaching, and students to adapt and utilize newly available tools. This moment is no different.
What I Hope For¶
I hope we build an educational ecosystem where:
- AI is utilized to further critical thinking.
- Educators use AI in creating pedagogically sound curriculum, freeing their time to inspire, mentor and connect with their students.
- Students are able to 'punch above their weight' and make valuable contributions to the world by utilizing AI.
- Proficiency in in using AI is a valued aspect of education
"The goal of education is not to fill a bucket but to light a fire."
— often attributed to W.B. Yeats
What can you expect¶
On this website I have a two fold audience, students and educators. Some of the sections will be targeted to one groupe or the other, but I believe that these questions and topics need to be considered by all in the education system.
Explore the topics below to read my more detailed thoughts, and scroll down to the Q&A section for answers to common questions.
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Questions & Answers
Common questions about AI in education — answered.
When I talk about AI in education, I mean tools that can assist with learning, teaching, and school operations. That includes writing assistants, tutoring systems, adaptive practice platforms, analytics dashboards, and workflow tools for educators.
The key distinction is not whether a tool is "AI" in the abstract, but what role it plays in learning. Some tools help students think more deeply. Others make it easier to bypass thinking. That difference matters more than the label.
Not inherently. AI is a force multiplier, and force multipliers can help or harm depending on design and use.
The biggest risks are:
- Students outsourcing deep thinking to AI, missing the productive struggle that builds genuine understanding.
- Schools deploying tools faster than they build policy, training, and accountability.
- Over-trusting low-quality outputs in high-stakes decisions.
- Widening inequity if only well-funded schools can access high-quality tools and support.
The goal should be to treat AI as an instructional support, not an instructional authority.
AI should not be viewed as a machine that "thinks" of ideas for us, but rather as a highly efficient "sandbox" for discovery. Creative breakthroughs are rarely the result of a single moment of inspiration; instead, they are "found" through a process of play and experimentation within a set of constraints Kulash, Damian (2017).
By using AI, we can build these sandboxes at an unprecedented scale. AI allows us to rapidly iterate through thousands of permutations and "what-if" scenarios that would be impossible to explore manually. The goal isn't to let the AI provide the final answer, but to use it to generate the unexpected collisions and "wonderful" surprises that a human can then recognize, refine, and claim as a new idea.