MIT just dropped a guide for educators, and here’s the opening line: “Writing a guide on AI in schools in 2025 is like writing a guide on aviation in 1905.”
Translation? Nobody — and I mean nobody — knows how to teach in the age of AI.
And honestly? That’s the most refreshingly honest thing anyone’s said all year.
The debate about AI in education 2025 is heating up — and MIT’s new guide captures that confusion perfectly.
There’s no reliable way to detect whether a text was written using AI. No matter what anyone claims, truly objective criteria simply don’t exist.
MIT Professor Justin Reich and his team at the Teaching Systems Lab surveyed over a hundred teachers and students. Their findings? Equally sobering. Turns out, nobody understands how to transform education for this new era.
AI just… showed up on kids’ phones. It bypassed every standard protocol for introducing new technology into education. No training. No guidelines. No understanding of the consequences.
When we talk about AI in education 2025, it’s clear that both teachers and parents are learning as they go.
Kids are using ChatGPT for homework left and right. Teachers don’t know whether to ban it or embrace it. Parents are confused. And the world’s leading tech university is basically saying: “Folks, we’re figuring this out too. Let’s observe and experiment.”
Why should you care?
If even MIT admits they don’t have the answers, then your “I don’t know how to react to my kid writing essays with AI” is completely valid.
This isn’t a parenting failure. This is the reality of 2025.
The key is not to make knee-jerk reactions — don’t ban everything blindly, but don’t pretend you have it all figured out either.
So what do we do?
MIT suggests an “ethics of humility”: acknowledge we’re at the beginning of this journey and search for answers together.
For parents, here’s what that means:
➡️ Don’t panic or ban AI “just in case”
➡️ Explore together with your kids where AI actually helps find smart, effective solutions (that’s learning too, by the way). Maybe try out new AI tools for school together — start with something like Perplexity
➡️ Shift the conversation from “how to trick the teacher” to “when is AI helpful, and when is it harmful?”
For everyone else — stop pretending anyone has the right answer. We don’t. Not yet.
What about you — do you know what to do about AI in your kids’ education?
Share your strategies in the comments!
Curious how AI is reshaping other industries too? Read my post on AI and the Future of Work.