Workshop

AI in Education: from product to process

Thomas Donvil

Researcher AI in Education & Author

Stop grading what AI can produce. Start assessing how students learn.

Your students can produce a polished essay, report or piece of code in minutes. Most of our assessments were built for a world where the final product was proof of learning. That world is gone, and AI detectors won’t bring it back: they are unreliable, unfair, and turn teachers into police.

The real question isn’t “did they use AI?” but “what did they learn, and how can I see it?” That means shifting attention from the product students hand in to the process behind it: their choices, iterations, reasoning and reflection.

This workshop gives you a practical, research-informed way to make that shift without doubling your workload. You’ll bring one of your own assignments and redesign it so AI use becomes visible, purposeful and assessable instead of hidden or forbidden.

You’ll leave with one of your own assignments redesigned using FRAMED, a framework tested with more than 300 teachers, ready to use with your students next week.

What you’ll learn

Go from policing AI to designing assessment that still measures real learning, and lead your colleagues through the same shift.

  • Discover how students really use AI, from weekly use to homework they don’t disclose.

  • See why teachers and detectors both fail: Turnitin flagged 0 of 40 fully AI-written theses.

  • Learn how cognitive debt and the illusion of the finished thought undermine learning.

  • Use intermediate steps: drafts, sketches and first plans made in class or on the job.

  • Ask for three pieces: the AI version, the student’s own revision and a short reflection.

  • Replace part of the grading with two minutes of follow-up: “explain why…”

  • Start with a Defined goal and one Focused question that calls for a judgement.

  • Add Explicit boundaries and a Multi-step structure so each step becomes visible.

  • Assess the reasoning, not just the outcome, and build in variables for reuse.

  • Decide per step what AI may do (e.g. help with wording, not the analysis) and why.

  • Use AI as scaffolding that is gradually removed, not as a permanent crutch.

  • Teach students to test AI output first and trust it later.

  • Let AI solve your current assignment and diagnose what it still measures.

  • Rework it live in a small group using at least three FRAMED letters.

  • Swap before-and-after versions with peers and pick one change to try next week.

Workshop agenda

  • Why the product no longer proves learning

    The speed of change, the illusion of the finished thought, cognitive debt, and AI as scaffolding or crutch. Why hunting cheaters is the wrong question.

  • From product to process

    Four moves that make thinking visible: intermediate steps, the three-piece submission (AI version, own revision, reflection), follow-up questions, and explicit AI use per assignment.

  • FRAMED: six design principles

    Focused question, Reusable design, Assessable reasoning, Multi-step structure, Explicit boundaries, Defined goal. Includes a live demo of a classic assignment, before and after.

  • Redesign lab

    In small breakout groups, bring one assignment of your own. Let AI solve it (5 min), redesign it with at least three FRAMED letters (10 min), then share your before and after (4 min).

  • What should learners still learn?

    The closing question and one change to try in your class next week.

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AI & EdTech Researcher @ UCLL | Author, The AI Educator Playbook (Routledge)

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Who this workshop is for

  • Lecturers and teachers in higher education or secondary school who are worried that their assignments no longer measure real learning.

  • Program directors and curriculum leads who need a consistent, fair approach to AI in assessment across courses and teams.

  • Educational developers and instructional designers who support faculty and want a practical framework they can reuse.

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