AI and school
I set my sons up with an AI study assistant for every class they take. These pieces explain how I set it up, then report what happened after the first week and after six weeks, including how my son decided to use it.
Two pieces take on bigger questions: New York City's ban on AI for younger students, and whether classrooms should be recorded the way work meetings are.
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AI @ School - I Built the Tutor. He Decided How to Use It.
· 7 min readSix weeks in, my son used his AI tutor a seventh as much as I use mine, mostly right before tests. The night before his first biology exam, it caught that he was swapping look-alike terms and taught him a way around it.
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AI @ School - First Week Results
· 7 min readThe week New York City banned AI for younger students, I looked at my son's first week of college political theory with his AI tutor. It built his schedule, gathered his readings and notes, and explained a Confucius lecture to me in plain terms.
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Every Work Meeting Gets Recorded. Should a Classroom?
· 9 min readI lay out the case for and against recording and transcribing classes, from a kid's right to be wrong to a struggling student's need to replay the lesson. Every objection can be answered, and I describe what transcription companies could build for schools.
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How to Win at School With AI - Right Now
· 6 min readI walk through setting up an AI tutor for a student in Claude Cowork, with one project per class and memory that carries from session to session. Fed every class, it learns which study formats work and where the student keeps struggling.
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I'm Arming My Sons With AI to Win at School
· 10 min readBefore our sons went back to school, we set each of them up with an AI study assistant for every class. I lay out the old gaps it aims at, from note-taking and pace to the fear of asking questions in class.
