ALT "Teaching and learning in the early days of generative AI is going to be tricky. There are few public guardrails. There’s no clear roadmap. The truth is, we really don’t know what’s going to happen with AI—how it will shape and transform education, society, humanity. However, let’s not forget: our students are hardwired to learn. Curiosity is our birthright as human beings and meaning-making our survival instinct. No sophisticated algorithm can replace that." —Diana Neebe, Assistant Principal

ALT Did You Know? Students who studied a lesson and then wrote their own questions outperformed students who simply restudied the material by 33 percent on a follow-on test. Other research shows that students learn better when they are “trained to generate cognitively challenging questions.” Work with students to identify crucial themes or insights, and model how to write more complex, open-ended questions that start with “explain,” “why,” or “how.” Sources: Bugg & McDaniel, 2012; Ebersbach, Feierabend, & Nazari, 2020; Levin & Arnold, 2008