Here's research showing the same exact effect 15 years ago, except it's about homework copying: https://news.mit.edu/2010/homework-copying-0318
Students who copied their homework more saw their grades go down more throughout the semester. A/B students became C/D students.
A name people use for this phenomenon now with AI is cognitive offloading.
A name people use for this phenomenon now with AI is cognitive offloading.
I coincidentally took advantage of the cheap DeepSeek Flash pricing the past couple of weeks to compile & synthesize a knowledge base/wiki of hundreds of educational AI research studies like this one here: https://edtechdev.github.io/aied/ Here's the summary of this article: https://edtechdev.github.io/aied/articles/stromberg-generati...