AI shifts the learner's role from producer to evaluator of mathematical meaning across multiple generative strategies¶

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q1 i? Across summarizing, mapping, and self-explaining, AI reconfigures the learner's role from producer of meaning to evaluator of AI-generated meaning, and whether evaluation can approximate the cognitive demands of production is an open design question. → Hoyun Cho 2026

Evidence¶

Hoyun Cho 2026¶

Hoyun Cho. (2026). Relocating the Locus of Generation: The AI-GLM Framework for Generative Learning in AI-Mediated Mathematics Education. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-026-10210-y

q1 · i? · theoretical · r3

Conceptual analysis of the eight generative learning strategies under AI mediation. The article argues the shift is not inherently negative but that "production generally yields stronger learning than evaluation or comprehension" per the generation effect literature, so evaluation must be designed to demand production-like processing.

"Across multiple strategies (summarizing, mapping, self-explaining), AI reconfigures the learner's role from producer of meaning to evaluator of AI-generated meaning. This shift is not inherently negative."

Discussion¶

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