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What AI Can't Replace in Instructional Design ft. Jonathan De La Cruz | My EdTech Life 363

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My EdTech Life
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May 10, 2026
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Summary

AI can write your design doc. It can build your storyboard. It can draft your script, your rubric, your assessment, your video outline, and half of your e-learning module before lunch. So what's left for the instructional designer? According to Jonathan De La Cruz, everything that actually matters. Jonathan is an instructional designer at a supply chain company and at a Plano, Texas startup building an AI-assisted learning management system. But before all of that, he was a music educator. ...