What happened
Cool Cat Teacher published a 10 Minute Teacher Podcast episode in which host Vicki Davis interviewed Nancy Frey, a professor in educational leadership at San Diego State and teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College, about classroom AI use. Frey said teachers should collect the chatbot dialogue, not just the final product: “I’m interested in the questions that you ask.”
Why it matters
For educators and learning designers, the practical shift is from policing outputs to designing evidence of thinking. Frey described face-to-face dialogue as valuable but noted it may be impractical with 180 students, pointing instead to Google Docs extensions for spoken questions and student replies. The episode also frames AI literacy as a K-12 progression, including “truth detectives” in K-2 and “information investigators” in grades 3-5.
What to do next
Review assignments where AI could produce a polished submission with little learner judgment. Where appropriate, ask for the finished work plus a chatbot transcript, link, or screenshot, and add reflective questions attributed in the episode to Carol Jago. Treat tool error rates and teacher workload as local uncertainties before scaling verbal or transcript-based assessment.
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