Thinking with AI - King, Amelia

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Résumé :

What if you could use Artificial Intelligence to make your students better thinkers, not lazier ones?

Welcome to education's latest existential crisis. AI isn't just changing how students think - it's forcing us to confront what we're getting them to think, and why. This isn't another panic-button book about the dangers of ChatGPT, nor is it a breathless celebration of our AI-powered future. It's something far more useful: a practical guide to making student thinking too valuable to outsource.

Drawing from real classroom experience as an EdTech integrator, Amelia King cuts through both the hysteria and the hype to deliver what educators actually need: actionable strategies that are classroom-ready for Monday morning. Through wit, wisdom, and a healthy dose of skepticism, she explores:

• How to use AI as distributed intelligence that enhances rather than replaces cognition
• The crucial difference between cognitive offloading (sometimes good) and cognitive replacement (always bad)
• The Swiss Cheese Model for creating classrooms where thinking is too valuable to outsource
• Why AI detection is the wrong game entirely (and what game we should be playing instead)
• How to design assessments that make AI use more trouble than it's worth
• Practical activities that make thinking visible and celebrated
• Why making students fall in love with their own thinking is your best defense

Packed with immediately usable exercises, thoughtful frameworks, and enough humour to make the existential dread bearable, this book transforms the AI 'threat' into an opportunity. Not to AI-proof your classroom, but to create learning experiences so engaging that students wouldn't want to miss them.

Because when we stop asking How do we catch the cheaters? and start asking How do we make thinking irresistible?, everything changes.

For every educator who's tired of playing AI whack-a-mole and is ready to do something that actually works.