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Make It Get Something Wrong and Other Tips for Using AI This School Year
At the start of a new school year, Dani, Mica, and Jake take stock of where schools stand with AI: hopeful about how educators are adapting, clear-eyed about the ones still on the sidelines. Then they get practical.
The hosts trade concrete ideas for teachers at every comfort level. Teachers opening up to AI can pair handwritten mind maps and notes with AI feedback, have students deliberately trigger hallucinations, generate rubric exemplars, or simply pick their worst pain point. More experienced users can audit a whole course, trim it down to its essentials, analyze student survey data over time, build custom class bots, and offer instructions in several formats. Their number one takeaway needs no tech at all: talk to your students about AI.
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8 Sept 2026
Detection Tools, Trust, and the Five-Paragraph Essay
Jake ran the new encyclical Magnifica Humanitas through Pangram and got a 100% AI-written flag on paragraph 16 — which turns out to be a pretty good doorway into the harder question: what should a teacher actually do when a detector lights up?
Dani, Mica, and Jake work through why a flag is the start of a conversation rather than a verdict, how revision history helps and how students are already gaming it, and why a false accusation costs more than a missed one. Then they go after the five-paragraph essay, a format academics invented, nobody uses outside school, and that we may be defending out of habit rather than evidence.
Plus the shame cycle around AI use right now, and three pieces of advice for teachers who don't know where to start when dealing with AI plagiarism.
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31 Jul 2025
A New School Year with AI
The hosts DANI, MICA, and JAKE discuss AI literacy and school-wide norms, providing practical first steps for teachers to mindfully integrate AI into their classrooms as a creative partner.
13 May 2025
Mindful AI for Education Podcast - A Student's Reflection on Classroom AI
In this episode, we explore the habits, mindset, and strategies that distinguish a student who uses AI as a learning partner from those who use it as a shortcut.
Ronin Patel is a current high school senior in Phoenix, AZ. He has had AI as a learning tool for most of his high school career. His insight as a student who values AI tools while recognizing their limitations offers a model for students and teachers who are curious about how AI might create positive learning experiences for students who use them.
Flint AI (http://flintk12.com) is the tool we reference in this episode. The activity Ronin built has now been used more than 2,000 times. Flint users can access that activity template here (https://app.flintk12.com/public/library/ap-english-lang-a10689) in the tool’s library.
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10 Apr 2025
Mindful AI for Education - Origin Stories
In this first episode of Mindful AI for Education Podcast, we share the origin story behind our book and podcast. We talk about how our journey into educational AI started, what surprised us, and why we think it matters. From early experiments to big mindset shifts, this episode sets the stage for the conversations to come.
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