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ResearchThe Cybernetic Teammate: A Field Experiment on Generative AI Reshaping Teamwork and ExpertiseAt Procter & Gamble, individuals using GenAI performed as well as teams, and teams using GenAI were most likely to produce exceptional solutions.ResearchProductivityResearchCollaborating with AI Agents: Field Experiments on Teamwork, Productivity, and PerformanceAn experiment randomly assigned human-human and human-AI teams to create marketing materials, with the AI given a range of “personality” traits.ResearchProductivityResearch PaperThe Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge WorkersA survey of professionals using AI found their critical thinking declined when they had high confidence in the AI’s output.ResearchCritical ThinkingResourcesAI for Educators: The University of SydneyResources and guidelines for higher-education instructors, with AI use cases for planning, assessment and working with students.ResourcesAI LiteracyAcademic OpinionA Classroom Teacher’s Take on AI - The Effortful EducatorBlake Harvard, a high school psychology teacher, wrote this blog post on AI from a classroom teacher’s point of view.ArticleStudent ThinkingLearningOpinion PieceAI Helps Math Teachers Build Better "Scaffolds"This article describes a study investigating techniques to help teachers incorporate better scaffolds in their middle school math classrooms.ArticleSkillsReportPrompting Science Report 1: Prompt Engineering is Complicated and ContingentThis report from March 2025 indicates that prompt engineering techniques and approaches have inconsistent results.ResearchPrompt EngineeringResearch StudyChatGPT in lesson preparation – Teacher Choices trialThe UK’s Education Endowment Foundation conducted a trial looking at the effects of AI in teachers’ lesson preparation in KS3 (middle school) science teachers.ResearchLesson PreparationProductivityResearch PaperAutomated Feedback Improves Teachers’ Questioning Quality in Brick-and-Mortar ClassroomsAn AI tool analyzed transcripts of teachers’ instruction and gave feedback on “focusing questions.” Questioning changed; other instruction did not.ResearchTeacher PracticeQuestioningResearch PaperThe Widespread Adoption of Large Language Model-Assisted Writing Across SocietyThis paper analyzes the rate of adoption for LLMs in professional writing, specifically: job postings, press releases, and consumer complaints.ResearchWritingOpinion PieceSuperintelligent judges: Can AI models judge as well as humans?In this post, the authors describe a test using an AI to evaluate student work to measure specific biases known to occur with LLMs.ArticleAssessmentOpinion PieceThe Perception Crisis: How Educational Institutions Are Missing AI RealityThe article discusses the growing disconnect between how institutions perceive and respond to AI versus its actual capabilities and usage in 2024-2025.ArticleRethinking EducationChange ManagementOpinion PieceThe AI Era Demands Curriculum Redesign: Stories from the Frontlines of ChangeA teacher’s assessment practice: grading students’ chat histories with an LLM, so they think more deeply about the content and how they use AI.ArticleCurriculum RedesignOpinion PieceGetting started with AI: Good enough promptingEthan Mollick argues that using AI well takes no prompt engineering, just about ten hours of experimenting to learn what the tools can do.ArticlePrompt EngineeringAI UtilizationPreprintDoes ChatGPT enhance student learning? A systematic review and meta-analysis of experimental studiesThis meta-analysis of ChatGPT use in the classroom suggests it improves academic performance and motivation while reducing student effort.ResearchAcademic PerformanceOpinion PieceStudy: AI-Assisted Tutoring Boosts Students’ Math SkillsA paper on using an LLM to support human tutors. Tutors became more effective, and the weakest tutors gained the most.ArticleMathPaperEvaluating large language models in analysing classroom dialogueA study comparing an LLM with human researchers analyzing classroom dialogue. They largely agreed on coding and qualitative analysis.ResearchClassroom PracticeOpinion PieceCan AI Help Kids Feel Creative?Creativity shapes children’s development, identity and learning, but their creative experiences with AI are often left out of the conversation.ArticleCreativityOpinion PieceUpdating the AI Assessment ScaleAn updated article on AI and how it impacts assessments in K-12 and higher education across a range of disciplines.ArticleAssessmentAcademic IntegrityPreprintGenerative AI Can Harm LearningStudents practiced with no device, a tutoring-tuned LLM or a plain LLM. The plain-LLM group did worse; the other two scored about the same.ResearchMathPreprintAI Tutoring Outperforms Active LearningAn AI tutor built on pedagogy best practices helped students learn more, in less time, than an active, instructor-led lesson.ResearchTutoringPhysicsPreprintThe GPT Surprise: Offering Large Language Model Chat in a Massive Coding Class Reduced Engagement but Increased Adopters Exam PerformancesStudents taking an online coding class were randomly assigned to a group with access to an LLM or a control condition.ResearchCodingResearchBeyond CheatBots: Examining Tensions in Teachers and Students Perceptions of Cheating and Learning with ChatGPTIn this study, the authors explored tensions in teachers’ and students’ opinions about what constitutes learning and cheating with AI.ResearchAcademic IntegrityOpinion PieceHow do students use ChatGPT as a writing support?The authors walk through the historical process of writing and how that can and has changed with the advent of ChatGPT.ArticleWritingAcademic IntegrityResearchCheating in the age of generative AI: A high school survey study of cheating behaviors before and after the release of ChatGPTResearchers used anonymous survey data from three high schools to see whether self-reported cheating changed after ChatGPT arrived.ResearchAcademic IntegrityAcademic Opinion6 Tenets of Postplagiarism: Writing in the Age of Artificial IntelligenceDr. Sarah Elaine Eaton explores how AI is reshaping writing and academic integrity in “6 Tenets of Postplagiarism.”ArticlePostplagiarismAcademic Integritry