Free Summer Seminar — Students & Parents
AI Without Cheating
A free one-hour seminar for students and parents on using AI to think better, not less.
In basketball, you get better as a team during the season. You get better as a player during the summer. The season is for execution; the off-season is when individual skill is built. The same logic applies to students and AI. The school year is for execution. Summer is when students actually have the time to learn how to use AI well — and right now, the most important individual skill a student can build is the one almost nobody is teaching them: how to use AI to think better, not less.
There are two completely different ways students can use AI. Most students only know the one that quietly weakens their thinking. This seminar shows the other one.
Free. One hour. Live online.
The core idea
Two ways to use AI
The first way is the obvious one. A student hands the assignment to the model and turns in what comes back. The work gets done. The thinking does not. Over time — paper after paper, problem set after problem set, prompt after prompt written on the student's behalf — the muscles that matter atrophy. The grade survives. The mind does not.
The second way treats AI as a thinking partner — something to argue with, push back against, and use to sharpen a draft the student actually wrote. The work still belongs to the student. The model makes it stronger instead of replacing it. This is the move almost no one is teaching, and it is what the seminar is about.
In the seminar
What the hour covers
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The real distinction
The difference between using AI to do the work and using AI to think with you — and why the difference matters more than any policy a school can write.
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Three practical moves
Three specific ways a student can turn AI into a thinking partner instead of a substitute. Concrete enough to try the same afternoon.
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Why this advantage compounds
Why students who learn this early will have a real edge in high school, college, and the work that follows — and why the window to build the habit is narrower than it looks.
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A look at the five-week cohort
A brief look at the deeper summer cohort for students who want to go further than an hour can take them.
Who this is for
Parents and students, sitting in the same room
For parents
Your student is going to use AI. The question is not whether, but how. The habits they form now — in high school or the first year of college — will harden into the way they think and work for the rest of their lives. Families already invest in summer to build skill: camps, lessons, training, tutoring. This is the same principle applied to the most consequential new skill of your student's education, while there is still time to shape how they use it.
For students
This seminar will not lecture you about cheating. It will not assume you are trying to cut corners. It will treat you as someone capable of serious work, who deserves to be shown how a real tool actually works. You will leave with a clearer sense of what AI is for, how to use it well, and how to do so without losing what makes your work yours.
About
About the instructor
Tim Moon
Tim Moon has spent twenty years in classical Christian education, most recently as Dean of Rhetoric at Sterling Classical School. He is the founder of Critical AI Solutions, currently teaches an AI course at Wayland Baptist University, and writes Silicon and Soul, a publication on AI, education, and human formation.
Details
Seminar details
- Date
- [Date to be announced]
- Time
- [Time and time zone to be announced]
- Duration
- 60 minutes — 50 minutes of content, 10 minutes of Q&A
- Format
- Live online webinar. The link is sent after registration.
- Cost
- Free
- Who attends
- Students and parents are both welcome — together or separately.
Register
Reserve your spot
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What comes after
A longer path, for students who want it
The seminar introduces a five-week paid summer cohort for students who want the full program. An hour can change how a student sees AI; five weeks can change how they use it. If that is something you want to know more about, seminar attendees will be the first to hear.