Everyone wants a checklist for AI in schools. Carole Basile thinks that's the wrong instinct — because the real problem isn't the technology, it's the 19th-century structure we're dropping it into.

Dr. Carole Basile is Dean of ASU's Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation, where she's spent nearly a decade rebuilding the education workforce around teams of educators instead of one teacher alone with 25 kids. Before higher ed, she spent over a decade in the corporate world — and that organizational lens runs through everything here.

In this episode:

Why "embracing AI" at ASU means building human relationships, not replacing them
The metacognitive data we've never had before — and the ethical obligation that comes with seeing it
Why there's no teacher shortage, only a shortage of people who'll do an impossible job
"Principled innovation": the what-should-we-build framework ASU started in 2016, before the AI wave
Why the AI-cheating panic is a signal to redesign assessments, not police students
The curriculum-company business model AI is quietly threatening — and the "Spotify moment" for textbooks
Using AI for possibility thinking — expanding what a team can imagine, not handing over the answers
Why K-12 keeps modeling itself on universities instead of on how the world actually works

Dr. Carole Basile — Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation, Arizona State University: https://education.asu.edu

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Carole Basile on Why Schools Have to Be Redesigned, Not Just Re-tooled