Uncovering Students’ Mental Models of Generative Artificial Intelligence arxiv.org/abs/2607.11692 "Students largely understood GenAI primarily at a surface level - knowing its names, tools, and applications but demonstrate limited procedural understanding of how it works and limited conditional knowledge about when and why it should or should not be used" Infographic summary: #AIEd #EdTech #AILIteracy
In this paper we present a study of students' mental models of generative AI (GenAI). A student's mental model of GenAI influences not only how they perceive the technology's capabilities and limitations but also how they choose to integrate it into …
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
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.
