You designed the AI-assisted writing task carefully; brainstorming and outlining handled by AI so students can focus on the argument. Here's the problem: the messy beginning you just removed was the learning... Not the warm-up, the learning! This episode introduces the Difficulty Audit, a three-category design tool that tells you exactly where AI belongs in a task, and where it cancels the encoding you cannot afford to lose.
This episode draws in part on research in:
