Socratic AI: How Creative AI Dialogue Can Restore Critical Thinking
This interactive discussion explores how creative AI dialogue can restore critical thinking and original thought in an era where students increasingly delegate higher-order thinking to AI tools. Based on insights from Anthropic’s education report and the Dialogic Learning Model, participants will learn practical strategies to transform AI from an answer generator to a Socratic partner in learning.
The Think Tank will do the following:
1. Look at Anthropics recent research on 1 million university students showing how they are using AI as a replacement for higher order thinking skills
2. Introduce the Dialogic Learning Model and use AI as Provocateur both via chatbot and from general LLMs
3. Prototype solutions by designing anti-inversion prompts
Facilitated By
Timothy Cook
Elementary Teacher, American Community School of Amman
Timothy Cook, M.Ed., is an Educational AI Developer and Founder of ConnectedClassroom.org, where he explores how AI is reshaping how students learn, think, and grow. With over a decade of teaching experience across five countries, Timothy brings a global classroom perspective to his work designing AI tools that support critical thinking and cross domain synthesis. His focus is on helping students become thoughtful creators with technology instead of passive consumers. Through hands-on tools and research-informed strategies, Timothy helps educators understand how AI can strengthen learning when used intentionally and how overreliance on algorithms can quietly erode skills like reasoning, creativity, and independent thinking. He is a regular contributor to Psychology Today and writer of the “Algorithmic Mind” column. In his sessions, Timothy shares practical strategies for using AI in ways that protect the learning process for our students’ intrinsic curiosity, collaborative intelligence, and ability to communicate ideas.
