Teachers treated AI as a provisional thinking partner whose outputs required iterative adaptation rather than automatic adoption¶
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q2 i? Participants used AI to generate and revise lesson ideas, prompts, assessment tasks, and alternative pathways, describing AI as a provisional thinking partner whose outputs required adaptation, reflecting iterative human-AI design rather than automatic adoption. → Hochberg N and Waitzman R 2026
Evidence¶
Hochberg N and Waitzman R 2026¶
Hochberg N and Waitzman R (2026). From information providers to learning designers: heutagogical teaching practices in AI-enhanced education. Front. Educ. 11:1905833. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2026.1905833
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Qualitative strand findings on AI-supported learning design from lesson plans and reflections in the professional development study. As one teacher stated, "AI became a starting point for thinking. I did not simply copy the outputs." Another emphasized that teachers must decide what is educationally meaningful.
"AI became a starting point for thinking. I did not simply copy the outputs, but used them to improve and reshape my lesson design."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- AI-supported design iteration consists of generation, selection, evaluation, and revision rather than one-off generation — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- Teachers viewed ChatGPT as a source of inspiration rather than a generator of genuinely innovative lesson content — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- Teachers report ChatGPT-generated math questions misalign with grade level and topic, are unreliable or unanswerable, and cost time — related
- GenAI use involves substantial hidden labor of prompting, verification, and correction that remains invisible in productivity evaluation — related
- AI-supported project-based learning at YCHS produced authentic student-designed products through iterative prompting and refinement — related
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Teachers treated AI as a provisional thinking partner whose outputs required iterative adaptation rather than automatic adoption |
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Teachers treated AI as a provisional thinking partner whose outputs required iterative adaptation rather than automatic adoption |
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