A lot of the discussion has focused on the use of AI to address learning outcomes. This paper, by contrast, looks at "the strengths and the positive aspects of the learning process to promote wellbeing" - in other words, AI-based learning technology that cares. "Despite focusing only on the learning system's inefciencies and on the hegemony of solutions to tackle the learning gap, we also need to shed light on the strengths and the positive aspects of the learning process to promote wellbeing." Drawing on John Self's writing about the defning characteristics of Intelligent Tutoring Systems, the authors outline how "ITSs care not only about what the student knows and misunderstands but also about what the student feels and how such interaction afects them." I'm sure a few readers are sceptical, but I've never felt a single-minded focus on 'learning outcomes' was ever the intended objective of educational technology, or education generally.
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