Today with Claire Byrne What Parents Need To Know: AI and its Impact on Homework
Oct 9, 2025
Rita Bateson, co-founder and Director of Education at Eblana Learning, advises on AI literacy in schools. She discusses the balance between AI's benefits and potential pitfalls, such as student dependency and masking true learning. Rita highlights AI's advantages for special needs education while warning against oversimplification. The conversation also touches on the need for clear guidelines in using AI, rethinking homework strategies, and fostering student voice in assessments. Overall, a thought-provoking look at integrating technology ethically in learning.
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Cognitive Offload Harms Learning
- AI creates cognitive offload where students reach for tools before their own notes or thinking.
- Rita Bateson warns this fosters dependency and erodes genuine learning processes.
AI Can Mask True Authorship
- AI can replicate handwriting and produce outputs that mask true student authorship.
- Bateson says this undermines assessment and teacher feedback authenticity.
Design Tasks To Preserve Struggle
- Preserve productive struggle and re-design tasks to require genuine cognitive effort.
- Use AI as an accelerant for skilled adults, not as a shortcut that skips learning steps.