Mathematics Teachers’ Use of Generative AI to Create Active Learning Experiences
Generative AI tools have arisen as important supports to assist teachers with planning instruction. One important way that GenAI can assist teachers in lesson planning is by allowing them to incorporate more “active learning” into their instruction, which we refer to here as “generative learning.” In the present chapter, we explore mathematics teachers (n=16) using GenAI to adapt a task they are using in their classroom to incorporate generative learning and also explore GenAI as support as teachers themselves engage in a novel generative learning task related to lesson design. We find that teachers appreciate the creative affordances of generative AI to support generative learning activities but worry about time efficiency, usability, and accuracy, as well as a variety of important big-picture issues. Five implications for policy and practice are given.