Schools Should Go Back to Basics to Mitigate Effects of AI

ViewpointsOpinionAs new technologies continue to change the education landscape in heretofore unknown ways, one time-tested winning strategy is to go back to basics, writes Paige MacPherson. Monkey Business Images/ShutterstockPaige MacPherson12/12/2025|Updated: 12/12/20250:00CommentaryOdds are, you can’t tell whether this sentence was written by artificial intelligence. Schools across Canada face the same problem. And happily, some are finding simple solutions.Paige MacPhersonAuthorPaige MacPherson is associate director of education policy studies for the Fraser Institute.Author’s Selected ArticlesOntario Takes Good First Step Toward Restoring Foundational Blocks of Learning in SchoolsFeb 01, 2024