Bridging Human Intelligence Augmentation (IA) and Classroom Practices via GenAI in Learning Engineering

This paper is written to share a grounded and practice-oriented understanding of Dr. Christopher Dede’s keynote series 2022-2025 on human intelligence augmentation (IA) via learning engineering in response to his invitation for public feedback. The goal here is to share a practice-oriented understanding of the significant usefulness of this epistemological framework on bridging human IA, GenAI, and classroom practices via learning engineering. This paper synthesizes key epistemological themes from Dede’s IA keynotes (2022–2025) and interprets their implications for classroom practice and learning engineering. This paper also discusses some major real-world opportunities, pitfalls and possible solutions to improve the educational ecosystems to implement IA in classrooms via learning engineering for the front-line educators, policy makers, researchers, learning engineers and AI developers, etc. Every reader is advised to create their own version of user experience (UX) design for human IA to benefit their work.