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Finding Our Voice within AI

As an educator who has spent decades in classrooms and now builds educational technology, I find myself at a crossroads that feels both daunting and exhilarating. The arrival of generative AI in our schools has created what creativity researcher, Ron Beghetto, calls a "critical inflection point" between two possible futures for education (OECD, 2026). On one path, we risk creating what Beghetto terms "digital puppets": students who mindlessly repeat AI-generated content without critical thought or personal input. On the other, we have the opportunity to cultivate what Tara Westover describes as education as "a process of self-discovery, of developing a sense of yourself and what you think" (Gates & Westover, 2018).