EH I PODCAST
April 10, 2026
Lakefield College School is an innovator when it comes to AI in education, and in this episode, we’re joined by Heather Adams, Teacher and Program Area Leader from the School.
Heather and Ryan discuss Lakefield's "Two-Lane" assessment model for AI, and how AI has actually brought Heather closer to her students by forcing more authentic, one-on-one interactions. She emphasizes that in a world where the "answers are stapled to the back of the test," the burden is on educators to redesign assessments rather than on students, to resist the pull of a tool that creates effortless "flow."
Heather also discusses her pragmatic, albeit "optimistic," advice for education institutions in this rapidly changing landscape, as well as the challenges of preparing students for an evolving future of work.
We discuss four core categories that can help us reframe the use of AI from “something to be policed” to “closing the teacher-student exposure gap through experimentation and literacy”, and how we can treat AI as a tool for augmenting human thinking and deepening knowledge, rather than replacing learning.