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The Quiet Emergency in Education: AI Is Building an Epistemic Monoculture — Unless We Design Against It
A student asks a chatbot to explain a conflict half a world away and gets a polished answer that never says whose story it is—or what it leaves out. We’re entering an era where students will meet the world through systems that summarize it for them. Artificial intelligence isn’t just a tool for producing text or organizing information. It is rapidly becoming an infrastructure of meaning : it decides what gets surfaced, what gets smoothed over, what counts as “reliable,” and w
Tracy Williams-Shreve
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Beyond “Critical Thinking”: Five Epistemic Functions for Learning With Artificial Intelligence
AI cannot practice restraint. It produces answers endlessly and instantly. If education rewards speed and certainty, AI will quietly become the model student.
Teaching restraint means cultivating the capacity to say:
I don’t know yet. This question may be poorly framed. This answer may be unsafe.
Tracy Williams-Shreve
7 min read


AI in the Classroom: Navigating Cognitive Offloading in Education
...avoiding AI altogether could limit students' access to valuable learning tools that enhance engagement, adaptability, and problem-solving skills in an increasingly digital world
Tracy Williams-Shreve
4 min read


Using Open Source Textbooks to Differentiate Instruction
Creating Differentiated Articles for Diverse Learner Needs
Tracy Williams-Shreve
2 min read


Bias in AI Tools—And What Teachers Need to Know
One of the most pressing concerns is the presence of bias within AI educational tools, which can inadvertently perpetuate inequalities and affect student outcomes.
Tracy Williams-Shreve
2 min read
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