Buckeye Central High School Principal Dr. Michael Martin has developed a new strategy for using AI for educational purposes. It’s called the “80/20, 20/80 “rule. Its purpose: to keep students accountable for their work while using AI.
Step 1: 80/20
Martin says the rule applies to all use cases of AI, including a presentation he gave to his staff.
Over the course of six months, Martin did all the research, collected resources and developed a detailed outline, which he estimates was 80% of the work. The remaining 20% was done by AI, which offered suggestions to the outline without making changes to Martin’s original work.
The same principle must be applied to students’ use of AI to enhance learning, he argues, as AI must not be used for “cognitive offloading.”
“AI didn’t write the outline for me,” Martin says. “I did the research and read its suggestions and I made the changes.”
He adds that he brought the ideas. AI simply made his ideas better.