Marcus Green<p>Matt Bury <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@matbury" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>matbury</span></a></span> has written a summary of a paper that highlights weaknesses in recent studies & outlines principles for conducting research that focuses on real learning outcomes using <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> This bit jumped out at me.</p><p>“No-intervention” control groups (comparing AI to doing nothing) show only that AI is better than no support, offering limited insight into its instructional quality compared to alternative methods.”</p><p><a href="https://matbury.com/wordpress/index.php/2025/05/09/position-paper-issues-principles-for-ai-in-learning-research/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">matbury.com/wordpress/index.ph</span><span class="invisible">p/2025/05/09/position-paper-issues-principles-for-ai-in-learning-research/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/edtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>edtech</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>learning</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/aitext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aitext</span></a></p>