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Do AI chatbots improve students learning outcomes? Evidence from a meta-analysis

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Author: Wu, R., & Yu, Z. Description: Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are gaining increasing popularity in education. Due to their increasing popularity, many empirical studies have been devoted to exploring the effects of AI chatbots on students’ learning outcomes. The proliferation of experimental studies has highlighted the need to summarize and synthesize the inconsistent findings about the effects of AI chatbots on students’ learning outcomes. However, few reviews focused on the meta-analysis of the effects of AI chatbots on students’ learning outcomes. The present study performed a meta-analysis of 24…

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How does generative artificial intelligence impact student creativity?

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Author: Habib, S., Vogel, T., Anli, X., & Thorne, E. Description: This study aimed to learn about the impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on student creative thinking skills and subsequently provide instructors with information on how to guide the use of AI for creative growth within classroom instruction. This mixed methods study used qualitative and quantitative data collected through an AUT test conducted in a college-level creativity course. The authors measured flexibility, fluency, elaboration, and originality of the data to assess the impact of ChatGPT-3 on students’ divergent thinking….

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Beware of Metacognitive Laziness: Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Learning Motivation, Processes, and Performance

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Author: Fan, Y., Tang, L., Le, H., Shen, K., Tan, S., Zhao, Y., Shen, Y., Li, X., & Gasevic, D. Description: With the continuous development of technological and educational innovation, learners nowadays can obtain a variety of support from agents such as teachers, peers, education technologies, and recently, generative artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT. The concept of hybrid intelligence is still at a nascent stage, and how learners can benefit from a symbiotic relationship with various agents such as AI, human experts and intelligent learning systems is still unknown. The…

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Risks and Benefits of AI-generated Text Summarization for Expert Level Content in Graduate Health Informatics

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Author: Merine, Regina; Purkayastha, Saptarshi Description: AI-generated text summarization (AI-GTS) is now a popular topic in applied computer science education. It has proven helpful in various sectors, but its benefits and risks in education have not been thoroughly investigated. Few researchers have demonstrated the benefits of employing AI-generated text summaries in learning to generate ideas swiftly and to explore insights and hidden knowledge. AI-GTS has made it easier for students to understand electronically-available critical information. On the other hand, the risks linked with its implementation in education are understudied. Some…

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Facial recognition technology in schools: critical questions and concerns

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Author: Andrejevic, Mark; Selwyn, Neil Description: Facial recognition technology is now being introduced across various aspects of public life. This includes the burgeoning integration of facial recognition and facial detection into compulsory schooling to address issues such as campus security, automated registration and student emotion detection. So far, these technologies have largely been seen as routine additions to school systems with already extensive cultures of monitoring and surveillance. While critical commentators are beginning to question the pedagogical limitations of facially driven learning, this article contends that school-based facial recognition presents…

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