Human Education for a Machine-Driven World

Teaching with, through and alongside artificial intelligence

Addressing the Sea Change

At Sai On Consulting Services, we enable educators to respond to the sea change that is transforming education, pushing the conversation beyond AI as easy-way-out, AI as threat. We help educators and schools incorporate AI as a dynamic tool for reflection, critical inquiry, dialogue, and construction: AI as collaborator.

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With - Through - Alongside

We believe artificial intelligence can strengthen literacy education through ongoing partnerships that teach with, through and alongside AI:

  • Teaching with AI: Helping students enhance their learning and deepen skills in reading, writing, speaking, and analysis.
    Examples: AI as tutor, guide, thinking partner

  • Teaching through AI: Helping students examine their own reasoning across multiple literacy modes and practices. Examples: AI as group discussion partner; project facilitator

  • Teaching alongside AI: (1) Helping students distinguish their own thinking adjacent to machine thinking. (2) Adapting teaching and learning for an AI world. Examples: group and whole-class discussions; reflective writing, audio and video.

Our AI and literacy partnerships help small alternative schools integrate these approaches into English Language Arts, Social Studies, and other subjects through ongoing monthly support.

Six Priorities

  • Academic Integrity

    Ensuring productive difficulty and avoiding off-loading of thinking and effort with artificial intelligence; maintaining ethical boundaries and guardrails.

  • Metacognition

    Guiding students in checking the consistency and validity of their own thinking when interacting with AI.

  • Project-Based Learning

    Enhancing the shared production of knowledge between teachers and learners with AI.

  • Oracy (literacy of speaking & listening)

    Shifting emphasis from formative writing to formative listening and speaking aided by writing.

  • Multimodality

    Learning through multiple, overlapping modes such as writing to read and speak; gaming to write and read; listening and viewing to speak and write, etc.

  • Assessment

    Demonstrating mastery in multiple modes while enhancing objectivity and reflectivity in feedback.

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The integration of AI is not a future possibility—it’s our present reality…. It requires a fundamental reimagining of how we teach, learn, and assess knowledge.

— Ethan Mollick, Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI