AI and pedagogical creativity: who takes the initiative?
In the age of artificial intelligence, educational creativity is no longer about producing something new, but about giving new meaning to the act of learning. Faced with machines capable of generating everything, the challenge for education is to preserve human initiative: to teach discernment, slowness, responsibility and the freedom to think differently.
AI as a magnifying mirror of our learning weaknesses
And what if AI, far from dumbing us down, revealed our own cognitive flaws? Laziness, utilitarianism, impatience... So many shortcomings that it amplifies and reflects back to us like a mirror. A salutary awakening to reinvent our relationship with knowledge. AI as an invitation to rehabilitate effort, discernment and cognitive authority. True progress lies less in technological prowess than in what it awakens in us as human beings.
What if goals are a disservice to performance and learning?
Excessive focus on results can paradoxically undermine performance by generating anxiety and paralyzing action. Examples from sport and companies show that there are effective management and pedagogical alternatives.
Fake news and AI: How to strengthen the critical judgment of younger people.
Education in critical thinking is not an injunction to rebel against adults or authority, but an apprenticeship in autonomy. A child who knows how to say "no" with discernment is an adult who can protect his or her own convictions and values.
But how did they learn?
At the end of the nineteenth century, hundreds of painters attended prestigious and demanding workshops that provided academic knowledge. It was difficult to enter, they worked hard, and they left with an impressive knowledge. No mistake in drapery, anatomy, perspective, composition. Teachers go in search of 150 year old teaching methods.