In the past 3 years, AI has become the norm. Anybody from 10 year olds to college students to entrepreneurs are using AI these days. And in businesses, if you don’t use AI, you will kind of fall behind. AI has become extremely important now, and it is slowly becoming part of everyday life.
But what about students? And what about schools? A lot of people worry that students using AI to write essays will reduce creativity or make students stop thinking for themselves. Some people even say that AI will completely ruin education. But honestly, I don’t think AI created a completely new problem, I think it revealed something that already existed.
Sometimes learning can become too focused on just finishing assignments, getting good marks, and moving on to the next thing. Students write essays because they have to submit them, not always because they deeply understand or connect with what they are writing about. In many cases, students are under pressure to perform well, so naturally they focus more on marks and deadlines.
And when learning becomes only about completing work, many students will probably forget most of what they studied a few days later. Just like how we clear the storage on our phones, students will clear everything they learnt for the test from their brains.
So when AI came in, it didn’t suddenly destroy learning. If a student was already writing something without fully understanding it, then AI simply made that process faster. The real issue is not AI itself, it is whether students are actually learning and understanding what they study. AI just made people notice the problem more clearly.
At the same time, AI is not only negative either. Students can use AI to understand difficult concepts, brainstorm ideas, simplify topics, ask questions, and even learn faster. Sometimes AI can explain things in a way that makes learning more interesting and accessible. It can become a very useful tool when used properly, just like calculators or the internet became useful tools over time.
I think the solution is not to completely avoid AI, because AI is already becoming a normal part of life. Instead, we need to focus more on practical learning and real understanding. Not just memorising things for marks, but actually applying what we learn in real life. Because at the end of the day, true learning is not about how much you can write in an exam, it is about how well you understand something and how you use it outside the classroom.
And that’s it for this post! See you all next week!
