When AI makes thinking easier, are you learning more or offloading your growth?
[Brief description of game]
Your school implemented a new literacy curriculum this year.
You have:
• Teacher feedback (mixed reactions)
• Student outcome data (modest gains, variable by class)
• Classroom observation notes
Your decision: Keep it? Modify it? Overhaul it?
Analyze the data.
Make a recommendation.
Write down your reasoning.
Same data. Same decision.
Now use AI:
• Paste the data
• Ask it to help you think
• See what changes
Did AI make analysis faster?
Did it change your actual judgment?
Where did AI shine? Where did you have to decide?
What part of this decision felt like it required your expertise?
Analysis: AI flags patterns, suggests possibilities
Judgment: Choosing treatment requires knowing the patient, weighing tradeoffs, understanding what they can tolerate
Safe to offload: analysis
Risky to offload: the call
Analysis: organize notes, suggest frameworks, draft plans
Judgment: reading the room, deciding when to push and when to hold, building the relationship
Safe to offload: structure
Risky to offload: the relationship and the call
Analysis: aggregate data on lesson quality, student feedback, outcomes
Judgment: is this teacher ready for leadership, or need support, or time to move on?
Safe to offload: data work
Risky to offload: knowing them over time and deciding
Analysis: survey data, theme patterns, outlier flagging
Judgment: what should we prioritize next? What can we afford? What serves our mission?
Safe to offload: the research
Risky to offload: the decision that requires your values and context
Analysis, pattern-finding, option generation: safe to offload or delegate to AI
Judgment calls requiring you to weigh values, context, and stakes: categorically different
The question isn't "should I use AI?" It's "which part am I comfortable handing off?"
30 minutes
Haven't done it yet? Work on it live with AI. I'm circulating.
Already done it? Draft your reflection.
Either way: notice where you lean on AI and where you pause and do your own thinking.
What cognitive tasks would you feel comfortable offloading?
[CLUSTER ON BOARD: data analysis, research, memo drafting, survey design, scheduling, etc.]
What would you never offload?
[CLUSTER: judgment calls, stakeholder conversations, strategic decisions, etc.]
Pick one task from "comfortable to offload" that connects to your work.
Find a real tool that handles it.
12 minutes. Pairs.
Write:
• One tool I found
• What task it handles
• One judgment call I'd never let it make for me
This is your entry for the week.
Tool + task + context
Just the data. No long stories.
Builds our class resource list.
One cognitive task I'd offload to AI in my work is ___.
One I'd never offload is ___.
The difference is ___.
You can design how you use AI.
The question isn't binary—it's not "use AI or don't."
It's "which part of my thinking do I want AI to handle, and which part is non-negotiable?"
Build that intentionality.