This webinar will run from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm ET / 7:00 am - 9:00 am PT on December 12, 2026 for a total of 2 credit hours. 

On Site PD
On Site PD

For those who cannot attend the live webinar on December 12, a recording of the webinar will be available for 7 days following the live webinar, beginning the following Monday.
CE credit is only available for live attendance.

Students now have a tool that can write the essay, solve the problem, and summarize the reading before they have done any thinking of their own. Cognitive science is clear about what that costs. When we offload retrieval, productive struggle, and synthesis to a machine, we lose the very friction that builds durable understanding and transfer. But AI does not have to weaken thinking. Used with intention, it can deepen it. Drawing on research in cognitive load, the generation effect, desirable difficulties, and metacognition, this session shows how AI can be designed into learning as a thinking partner instead of a shortcut. Participants will leave with a practical framework for assignments and classroom routines that use AI to make student reasoning visible, sharpen judgment, and prepare young people to think well in a world where answers are free and understanding is not.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will be able to:
Identify what cognitive science reveals about how learning happens, and why offloading cognitive work to AI can undermine memory, transfer, and understanding.
Distinguish between using AI to produce answers and using AI to develop thinking, and recognize what each does to the learning brain.
Apply a practical framework for designing AI-integrated assignments and classroom routines that strengthen reasoning, metacognition, and judgment.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Educators
School and District Leaders
Parents

Sabba N. Quidwai, EdD

Futurist; Social Scientist; CEO, Designing Schools; Host of the Podcast, “Designing Schools”; Former Education Leadership Executive, Apple; Former Director of Innovative Learning, <span style='color:#079696;'>University of Southern California</span>; Author and Producer of the 2020 Documentary and Book on Designing Schools: How Design Thinking Makes YOU Irreplaceable in the Age of AI; Co-Author, Humanity Amplified: Understanding the AI World and Augmenting Our Students’ Intelligence With Human Deep Learning (2024)

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