Exploring the Role of Generative AI in Collaborative Lesson Planning for Preservice Teachers

• In Event: AI in Education

Abstract

Generative AI has emerged as a tool in collaboration lesson planning for pre-service teachers, making it essential to understand the interactive mechanisms between teachers and AI. This study explores the role of generative AI in collaborative lesson planning of pre-service teachers by analyzing the collaboration processes and final lesson designs of 27 graduate students in a graduate course. Using frequency analysis and cognitive process modeling, the findings reveal that generative AI serves as an information repository, providing ideas or information, and as cognitive scaffolding, encouraging deeper thinking. Given its primary role as an information repository, the study suggests offering intervention for pre-service teachers to promote deeper learning.

Authors

• Yingfen Huang, East China Normal University

• Sifan Wen, East China Normal University

• Yanyan Sun, East China Normal University