The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has transformed numerous aspects of daily life, yet its impact on critical thinking remains underexplored. This study investigates the relationship between AI tool usage and critical thinking sk...
The rapid proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has raised concerns about its impact on creativity, yet mechanisms and boundary conditions remain underexplored. Using one survey and two experiments, we investigated how AI dependenc...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly present in children’s lives, yet exposure does not necessarily lead to an accurate understanding of how AI works. This study examined whether a LEGO-based integrated STEM intervention could improve t...
(1) Background: In the era of generative AI (GenAI), assessing AI literacy is essential for understanding how effectively non-expert users can interact with AI. However, existing assessment tools primarily focus on users’ understanding of AI pr...
Generative AI is weaving into the fabric of many human aspects through its transformative power to mimic human-generated content. It is not a mere technology; it functions as a generative virtual assistant, raising concerns about its impact on cognit...
This paper advances a theoretical argument that generative AI is accelerating the democratization of computational thinking and, in turn, reshaping education, professional practice, and the nature of computing itself. Traditionally, computational thi...
The expanding role of artificial intelligence (AI) in education raises important questions about how AI-supported learning may foster higher-order thinking and creative talent development. Guided by social cognitive theory, the current research exami...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is commonly used in university academic work, yet existing instruments mainly assess AI literacy, readiness, or levels of permitted use rather than the critical-thinking processes students activate when working with AI. T...
In science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) education, artificial intelligence (AI) analytics are useful as educational scaffolds to educe (draw out) the students’ AI-Thinking skills in the form of AI-assisted human-centr...
Within the rapid integration of AI into educational settings, understanding its impact on essential cognitive skills is crucial for developing effective teaching strategies and improving student outcomes. This study examines the influence of generati...
This study investigates the impact of AI-generated contexts on preservice teachers’ computational thinking (CT) skills and their acceptance of educational robotics. This article presents a methodology for teaching robotics based on AI-generated...
31 August 2026
Promoting consumers’ green consumption is an important way to drive the low-carbon transition on the demand side and achieve sustainable development. Existing research mainly compares the persuasive effects of AI and human recommenders, with li...
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly embedded in education and society, cultivating critical AI literacy has become a key objective of sustainable higher education, enabling learners to engage with AI responsibly, critically, and thro...
According to the World Bank, a key factor to poverty reduction and improving prosperity is financial inclusion. Financial service providers (FSPs) offering financially-inclusive solutions need to understand how to approach the underserved successfull...
Computer vision education is increasingly important in modern technology curricula; yet, it often lacks a systematic approach integrating both theoretical concepts and practical applications. This study proposes a staged framework for computer vision...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank, malnutrition is one of the most serious but least-addressed development challenges in the world. Malnutrition refers to the malfunction or imbalance of nutrition, which could be inf...
Developing pre-service mathematics teachers’ ability to understand students’ mathematical thinking and anticipate students’ difficulties remains a challenge in teacher education. This exploratory mixed-methods study involved 21 pre-...
Although GenAI has been increasingly applied in pre-service teacher education, limited evidence is available on how permitted but unscaffolded GenAI use affects pre-service teachers’ learning and professional development in authentic course con...
Industry 5.0 and Society 5.0 call for a shift in AI and robotics development from a primary focus on automation and technical sophistication to holistic solutions that address human needs, social contexts, stakeholder perspectives, and broader societ...
Sustainable development is crucial to humanity. Utilization of primary socio-environmental data for analysis is essential for informing decision making by policy makers about sustainability in development. Artificial intelligence (AI)-based approache...
In the age of intelligence, information technology (IT) education has become the focus of attention in the education sector. However, traditional teaching methods fall short in motivating students and fostering higher-order thinking and have difficul...
With the development of the digital intelligence era, generative AI is being widely used in scientific research, and its impact on graduate students’ research competence has attracted much attention from the academic community. Based on cogniti...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools have transformed academic writing and literacy development in higher education. Students can now receive instant feedback on grammar, coherence, style, and argumentation using AI-powered writing assistants, like Gra...
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is becoming embedded in adult professional education, yet its capacity to accelerate academic work may also remove cognitive processes that underpin professional judgement. This qualitative study explored ho...
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, college students have faced various challenges that could negatively impact their critical thinking abilities due to disruptions to education, increased stress and anxiety, less social interaction, and the a...
Generative AI (GenAI) challenges traditional technology integration frameworks by introducing agentic systems that actively participate in meaning-making, requiring educators to shift from tool operation to cognitive orchestration. This study introdu...
This paper aims to develop a new model of Project-Based Instructional Taxonomy (PBIT) that provides a tool of course design that facilitates Computational Thinking (CT) development as creative action in solving real-life problems. Theoretically, PBIT...
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) can alter final second-language (L2) texts, yet cognitive differences may shape which changes emerge. This exploratory study examined 38 upper-intermediate learners of Russian who each produced one composition...
Artificial intelligence (AI) can help students accelerate assignment completion, but it may also foster cognitive outsourcing and learning detached from authentic contexts. This paper presents E3-HOT, a conceptual framework that leverages embodied in...
As conversational artificial intelligence (CAI), including smart speakers, social robots, and dialogic learning apps, becomes increasingly present in children’s lives, its potential to support early mathematical thinking warrants closer attenti...
This article investigates the use of digital technologies for visualizing educational content in programming education, with a particular focus on developing logical thinking skills. In the context of rapid GenAI development—where AI can both s...
The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) into educational settings has raised growing concerns regarding its potential influence on students’ higher-order thinking skills. However, existing findings remain inconclusiv...
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) literacy, encompassing the knowledge, skills, and attitudes for effective use, is becoming essential in education. However, its distinct associations with exploitative versus exploratory innovation and the r...
In recent years, the rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into education has sparked intense academic and public debate regarding their impact on students’ cognitive development. One of the central concerns raised by r...
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly used as a cognitive aid in education, yet no single process measure captures how learners monitor and control GenAI-assisted work. Guided by a reciprocal monitoring-control account of metacog...
The rise of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is creating new opportunities for assessment design in universities, particularly in subjects that emphasize analytical and creative skills. This paper introduces the Educator–GenAI Partner...
Computational thinking (CT) is recognized as a core competency for the 21st century, and its development is shaped by multiple factors, including students’ individual characteristics and their use of information and communication technology (IC...
In the digital age, the integration of technology in education is gaining attention. However, there is limited evidence of its use in promoting historical thinking. Students need to develop critical thinking skills to address post-truth and fake news...
Education about AI, including its opportunities and limitations, is essential for responsible academic development. It helps students, teachers, parents, researchers and practitioners understand both the strengths and the limitations of generative AI...
There has been an increase in global investment in the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into K-12 education. However, there is no empirical evidence of the relationship between teachers’ domain-specific AI practices and student creat...
This paper conducts a systematic literature review to explore the dynamic interplay among ergonomics, design thinking, and artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML). In a rapidly evolving world, the convergence of ergonomics and design In...
29 August 2026
Academic research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) has primarily focused on usage motivations, AI literacy, trust, overreliance, and critical use. However, the mechanisms through which critical thinking influences passive reliance on AI-generated outp...
The rapid integration of artificial intelligence technologies into higher education presents unprecedented opportunities for enhancing computational thinking development while simultaneously raising significant concerns about educational equity and a...
Engagement in everyday creative activities is widely considered to be a good way to develop creative thinking ability. Perhaps, by engaging in such activities, creators can learn at which point their work could be acknowledged as novel and useful by...
Professional education increasingly requires graduates to make decisions in complex systems marked by multiple stakeholders, feedback, delays, uncertainty, and unintended consequences, yet systems thinking is still often taught as a set of disconnect...
Creative thinking has become an increasingly important competence in education, yet less is known about how it may be supported in human–AI collaboration as large language models (LLMs) are increasingly employed as partners in learning and prob...
Background: Nursing education faces challenges in developing critical thinking and digital literacy among Generation Z students, particularly in maternal–newborn care contexts where evidence-based practice is essential. Objectives: To evaluate...
Amid the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and the digital transformation of schooling, computational thinking has become a foundational competency for K-12 learners and an organizing principle for AI education. Existing research sugg...
22 August 2020
Artificial intelligence (AI) has made great contributions to the healthcare industry. However, its effect on medical diagnosis has not been well explored. Here, we examined a trial comparing the thinking process between a computer and a master in dia...
Computational thinking (CT) has become a cross-curriculum priority in many educational jurisdictions, yet a growing body of research reports uneven integration in initial teacher education (ITE), limited preservice teacher confidence, and persistent...
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