The Effortless Trap: Productive Struggle, AI, and the Illusion of Learning
arxiv.org/abs/2606.26181
"an unguarded AI helper left high-school students about 17% worse on an unaided exam than peers with no tool at all, while the same model rebuilt to withhold answers erased the harm, and a well-engineered tutor roughly doubled learning"
"if letting AI in makes the task feel effortless, it is in the wrong place"
#AIEd
arxiv.org/abs/2606.26181
"an unguarded AI helper left high-school students about 17% worse on an unaided exam than peers with no tool at all, while the same model rebuilt to withhold answers erased the harm, and a well-engineered tutor roughly doubled learning"
"if letting AI in makes the task feel effortless, it is in the wrong place"
#AIEd
The Effortless Trap: Productive Struggle, AI, and the Illusion of Learning
With AI advancing fast, educators face a dilemma: allow the tool or ban it. Conflicting evidence that it both helps and hurts learning only deepens the confusion.arXiv.org
