The moment that reframed AI
I was in a doctor’s office while he typed away; Googling my symptoms. “I can Google,” I said. He smiled: “If you use doctor words, you get doctor answers.”
That line stuck with me and I think it applies well to AI. These tools are powerful, but the quality of answers depends on the quality of expertise guiding it.
Why expertise still matters
AI can generate content. Teachers support learning. Pedagogy, knowledge of students, and judgment turn outputs into experiences that are challenging and meaningful.
Prompting — the simple way that works
These four principles do the heavy lifting.
Collaborative Co-Iteration
AI beyond efficiency
AI isn’t just a shortcut for cranking out worksheets. Its real potential is as a collaborator. It is a partner that helps us tackle the kinds of rich, challenging tasks that usually take weeks to design. In gifted education especially, this matters: we can use AI to frame paradoxes, shift perspectives, surface unanswered questions, and push ideas to greater depth and complexity. That’s not about going faster; it’s about going further.
The examples below show how I have used Kaplan's Depth and Complexity Framework, the William's Model and AI to create tasks that explore a topic with significant depth.
Maths story — seeing constant difference
Students ask whether to move numbers up or down. I wanted them to see that if both numbers shift equally, the gap stays the same.
Student apps
Students made prompts to generate an app that visualises the phenomenon.
Maybe it shouldn't be a surprise but this year, I saw the best results I have ever seen for this subject.
Make your own app!
If you want to make an app like the one above, you can! Watch the video below to learn how.
History story — how we judge the Aztecs (and how they might judge us)
We flipped judgment with a time-travel lens: If a future society judged us like we judge the Aztecs, what would they say?
AI video summary for students
I used NotebookLM to create a summary for students to watch so they could understand the task better. You could hear a pin drop while it was playing.
The future isn’t AI... it’s you
Gifted education demands genuine complexity. AI helps us design bespoke tasks, simulations, and narratives that stretch thinking and invite perspective-taking. AI is the tool; you’re the expert. Time to head down the rabit hole!
