Tech-Savvy Teaching: Embracing AI Without Losing the Human Touch

Last spring, I watched a group of my middle schoolers huddle around a laptop, whispering and giggling. Turns out, they were feeding Shakespearean insults into an AI chatbot—and giggling at the bot’s futile attempt to one-up the Bard. That moment stuck with me: here were digital natives, using cutting-edge tech to engage with Elizabethan English, and laughing all the way. As an educator, it was a lightbulb moment: artificial intelligence is a tool—never a crutch. Its potentia...