Viewers of learning-oriented content describe ChatGPT as a tutor or thinking partner, while viewers of output-oriented content raise over-reliance and cognitive-offloading concerns¶
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q2 i? Thematic analysis of 936 viewer comments found learning-tool descriptions concentrated under G1/G2 content and over-reliance/cognitive-offloading concerns concentrated under G3 content, including the dataset's most-engaged comments. → Shayla Sharmin 2025
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Shayla Sharmin 2025¶
Shayla Sharmin, Mohammad Al-Ratrout, Mohammad Fahim Abrar, and Roghayeh Leila Barmaki. (2025). How YouTube Frames ChatGPT Use in Education: An Epistemic Network Analysis with Supporting Multimodal Metadata. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08698 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.08698
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Qualitative thematic analysis of 936 comments from 28 videos (nG1=56, nG2=306, nG3=574), treated as an independent triangulation layer. The analysis found over-reliance concern "concentrated in G3 comments" and absent from G1 and G2 comments.
"Over- reliance concern was concentrated in𝐺3comments, with some of the highest engagement across the dataset"
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Viewers of learning-oriented content describe ChatGPT as a tutor or thinking partner, while viewers of output-oriented content raise over-reliance and cognitive-offloading concerns |
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Viewers of learning-oriented content describe ChatGPT as a tutor or thinking partner, while viewers of output-oriented content raise over-reliance and cognitive-offloading concerns |
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