TL;DR: AI can produce a polished product in seconds, so I care about the process that gets students there. I help K-12 educators design AI-enhanced processes: name the thinking, set clear expectations for AI, and have students document their thinking as they go (expanded below). AI is a guest in the room; the student stays the host. Efficiency is for adults. Effort is for learners. The long-term goal is students who can design the process themselves. Boom, that’s everything.
The Core of My Work
At the core of what I write about are three teaching strategies that are embedded throughout. They are the three things that I define in my book as the elements of an AI-Enhanced Process.
Name the thinking in each step. Break complex work into steps and name the thinking each one requires. (e.g. brainstorm, draft, revise)
Set clear expectations. Make explicit when and how AI may support each step, and where the thinking must stay with the student.
Document the thinking. Students leave breadcrumbs as they work. This serves their growth first and teacher insight second.
For students creating their own processes, the same three moves become: Name Your Thinking. Choose Your Strategies. Show Your Thinking.
Start With These Five Articles
How to Design AI-Enhanced Processes The playbook. The core moves with examples, planning tools, and one sous-vide cat.
The Metaphors We Use for AI The framing. Why I treat AI as a guest collaborator and not a tool on the shelf.
Designing for Creative Thinking in the Age of AI The creativity piece. Think, Generate, Edit, and how to keep school slop out of creative work.
Who Should Be Efficient with AI in Schools? Part 1 and Part 2 The argument, then the toolkit. WALL-E vs. Iron Man, and the classroom moves that follow.
Go Further
The book. AI-Enhanced Processes (Second Edition, foreword by Katie Novak) gives five kinds of thinking a named process each, from Think, Generate, Edit to Foresight, Oversight, Hindsight, with classroom stories from teachers around the world. It’s out on Amazon in January 2027.
The tools. The AI-Enhanced Process Generator helps teachers draft a process. The Student-Led Process Generator helps students design their own.
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AI disclosure: I drafted this page with Claude as a guest collaborator, working from my book and articles. I revised it and cut whatever didn’t sound like me. I try to model the practice of disclosing my AI use on every article. AI is here to stay and infused into just about every digital product; so I’m not ignoring it, but rather, I’m trying to model what thinking with AI could look like.