AI in the Classroom: Assignments Students Can't Fake
AI in the classroom isn't a tool problem — it's an assignment problem. Dr. Nancy Frey on designing work students can't fake.
Dr. Nancy Frey — professor of educational leadership at San Diego State and teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College — joins Vicki Davis for a practical conversation about what actually changes in a classroom when every student has AI. Not which app to use. What to assign, what to collect, and what to teach kids to verify. Nancy's newest book, Teaching Students to Use AI Ethically & Responsibly, is co-authored with Salman Khan, Douglas Fisher, James Marshall, and Meghan Hargrave.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- How to build verbal assessment into a classroom that has 180 students — including a Google Docs workaround when face-to-face isn't practical
- Why you should collect the student's dialogue with the chatbot, not just the finished product
- How lateral reading — Sam Wineburg's method — transfers directly to interrogating AI-generated content
- What appropriate AI use looks like by grade band: "truth detectives" in K–2, "information investigators" in grades 3–5
- How to redesign a task so it's AI-resistant, plus Carol Jago's reflective questions a chatbot can't answer for a student
Show notes, the full transcript, and every resource: https://www.coolcatteacher.com/e957
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