Within prompt–response AI interfaces, students without guidance rarely move beyond prompt tuning, yielding interactions of limited educational value and increased reliance on outputs¶

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q1 i? Empirical evidence indicates that in the narrow prompt–response interaction paradigm, students lacking clear guidance or sufficient AI-related knowledge rarely move beyond prompt tuning, resulting in limited educational value and increased reliance on system outputs. → Laura Desiree Di Paolo 2026

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Laura Desiree Di Paolo 2026¶

Laura Desiree Di Paolo, Andy Clark & Thomas Wachter. (2026). Educating minds with generative AI. Communications Psychology 4:128. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-026-00522-8

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The Perspective reports, citing prior empirical work, that the prompt–response structure centres the student's task on learning to ask the right question while the system delivers a coherent authoritative answer, mirroring instructionist pedagogies that decompose knowledge into discrete units and evaluate progress through correctness and fluency.

"students lacking clear guidance or sufficient AI-related knowledge rarely move beyond prompt tuning, resulting in interactions of limited educational value and increased reliance on system outputs"

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