# AI in Catholic Education: What K-12 Schools Owe Their Students

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Podcast: [AGI - Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/agi-advance-grow-innovate-with-ai-7324503)
Published: 2026-07-18T02:48:09+00:00
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION Schools should not race to keep pace with the digital world. They should give students what the digital world cannot: shared time for learning and trustworthy relationships. Jason Padgett sits down with Lewis Poché of the University of Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education to ask what that principle demands in the age of AI. Lewis makes the case for teaching AI literacy before handing young students unrestricted tools. He explains why schools must protect the learning process instead of judging only the finished product, how sycophancy and anthropomorphism can distort a child’s relationship with AI, and why blanket bans repeat mistakes schools made with social media. The conversation moves from kindergarten image-analysis lessons to Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas, teacher use of AI, student guardrails, and the three dimensions of AI literacy: technical, dispositional, and practical. ABOUT THE GUEST Lewis Poché is the Associate Program Director of Higher-Powered Learning at the University of Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education. A member of the 26th ACE Teaching Fellows cohort, he taught middle school math and science at Sacred Heart Nativity Schools in San Jose after studying engineering and philosophy at Southern Methodist University. His work helps Catholic school educators and leaders connect technology decisions to student formation, human dignity, and sound teaching practice. GUEST LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lewispoche/ Notre Dame ACE profile: https://ace.nd.edu/people/lewis-poche Step Up EdTech: https://www.lewispoche.com/ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - Lewis Poché and the K-12 AI question 06:01 - Teacher time, better feedback, and richer assessment 08:40 - Product versus process in student learning 12:06 - Teaching st…

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