When AI Helps, When It Harms: Reading the Evidence on Student Learning

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Course Description

Using Artificial Intelligence as a Teaching Tool in the Classroom

When AI Helps, When It Harms: Reading the Evidence on Student Learning takes educators through what peer-reviewed studies show about AI in learning settings. Where it produces measurable gains, where unguarded use harms learning, and why performance during practice is a poor signal of learning. Participants leave with a working vocabulary (cognitive offloading, desirable difficulties, performance vs. learning), the ability to evaluate vendor and media claims against evidence, and a redesigned AI-involved task or policy for their own context.

Course Details

Number of Units: 1.0 graduate level extension credit in semester hours

Who Should Attend: This course provides continuing education for education professionals that are interested in leveraging AI to enhance teaching and learning experiences. This includes K-12 educators, instructional designers and educational technologists.

Course Materials:  No textbook requirement.

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What You Will Learn

  • Evaluate claims about AI’s educational effectiveness against peer-reviewed evidence, distinguishing performance gains during practice from durable learning gains
  • Explain cognitive offloading and desirable difficulties and identify the conditions under which AI use supports learning versus displaces it
  • Analyze AI-use scenarios across age bands and settings, and justify which applications are acceptable, unacceptable, or acceptable only under conditions they control
  • Design or redesign one AI-involved learning task, assessment, or policy with guardrails justified by the research

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