Here's the set-up: "Thirty university students were tasked to read texts and write an essay within 45 minutes." Here's the pay-off: "Chatbot users achieved higher essay scores than non-users. Chatbot interaction frequencies correlated positively with high cognitive activities." How is this possible? This paper (11 page PDF) explores the question, exploring the usual trade-off between cognitive offloading and pedagogically sound design. "The findings highlight the need to support students' learning regulation skills to mitigate their outsourcing of critical processes while using genAI tools." In other words, there is a difference between an AI application that will write an essay for you, and an AI application that will teach you the content so you can write an essay. I think we knew that, though: it's why we discourage parents from completing their children's homework or project. The real issue is, under what circumstances can the student be motivated to turn down the parent's (or AI's) completion of their work even if it is freely offered?
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