AI in the Classroom: A Boon or a Threat to Pedagogical Practices?

Relevance: 9/10 7 cited 2024 paper

This paper directly evaluates AI integration in secondary education through teacher surveys and a sixth-grade classroom experiment, examining impacts on student engagement, critical thinking, retention, and over-reliance. The study specifically investigates cognitive offloading risks when students use AI tools like ChatGPT for homework, measuring whether AI promotes genuine learning or creates dependency.

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education offers significant potential to enhance learning experiences through personalized feedback, automated support, and efficient content creation tools. However, this study reveals both the benefits and potential drawbacks of AI’s role in pedagogy, particularly about over-reliance among secondary school students. Through a literature review, teacher surveys, and an experiment with sixth-grade students, the research explores how AI tools im

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