While AI was born without an end in mind, this book gives us one: to harness it authentically in service of better humanity for educators, parents, and students. It reminds us that the real measure of innovation is not what machines can do, but what humans become. By centering authenticity, it charts a path where AI supports-not supplants-the best of who we are.

Leonard Geddes, founder, The LearnWell Projects

Authentic Intelligence in Education is a useful and practical guide that offers context for using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the classroom. Better yet, it is a context familiar to most teachers. The challenge of integrating AI into classroom learning activities is already large enough. By defining potential frameworks and goals for student use of AI, like authentic learning, digital literacy, Understanding by Design, and Bloom's Taxonomy, Alaniz makes the challenge less daunting. Instead of blazing a new trail through uncharted territory, Alaniz offers signposts as the beginning of a roadmap for educators.

Dr. Les Foltos, author of Peer Coaching: Unlocking the Power of Collaboration Architect of the Peer Coaching Program, previous Director of Instructional Technology for Seattle Public Schools

The sheer pace of AI incursion into learning spaces has left many feeling buffeted between guilty adoption, uncritical enthusiasm, and fear for the future of learning. In this book on authentic learning and AI, Katie Alaniz, an authentic educator if ever there was one, leads us into the sober, practical details of how AI tools might interact with responsible planning for learning. Rather than a treatise on how AI will save or damn learning, this book offers a welcome collection of concrete, constructive ways of engaging.

Dr. David I. Smith, Director, Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning Coordinator, de Vries Institute for Global Faculty Development, professor of Education, Calvin University, editor for International Journal of Christianity and Education