AIGC Enabling Paradigm Change in Educational Research:Mechanisms,Risks and Countermeasures
In his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,Kuhn argues that the essence of scientific revolutions is paradigm shift rather than knowledge stack.As the"crown jewel"of the new round of AI revolution,artificial intelligence generated content(AIGC)expands a new path for upgrading the paradigm of educational research by virtue of its ability of highly intelligent interaction,creative generation,and complex data processing,etc.This study is based on the functional mechanism of AIGC and the context of research assistance.Based on the functions and research-assisting contexts of AIGC,this study elaborates the enabling logic of the tool from four dimensions:knowledge theory,ontology,methodology and value theory.However,as a disruptive technology,the research application of AIGC still faces the problems of questioning the authenticity and legitimacy of knowledge generation,the limitations of service objects,the dangers of data security and ethics,and the violation of information-bearing ideologies,etc.,and the technology empowerment strategy should be formulated from four dimensions:at the tool level,to promote the fairness of knowledge power of AI for education by technological threshold reduction;at the infrastructure level,to expand the education research digital space popularization;at the security level,create a lightweight and dedicated corpus in the field of scientific research;at the discourse construction level,support the functional iteration and international dissemination of the local AIGC platform.
digital transformation of educationdisciplinary research paradigmartificial intelligence generated contenthuman-intelligence collaboration