arXiv:2607.21777cs.HCcs.AI2026-07

让学生用AI工具真实参与科学探究,培养科技素养。

AI-Integrated Scientific Inquiry: A Practice-Centered Vision for Science Education

论文配图:AI-Integrated Scientific Inquiry: A Practice-Centered Vision for Science Education
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  • 将AI当作科学仪器融入观察、分析、建模等真实探究环节
  • 每类AI工具配套反思点,揭示其局限与误判风险
  • 适合想在教学中落地AI的教育者与课程设计者

人工智能已深度融入科学探究,科学家用其观测现象、识别数据模式、构建模型。随着AI进入科学实践,科学教育也应相应调整:学生需亲身体验AI整合的科学探究过程,而非孤立学习概念。本文提出一种以实践为中心的愿景,将AI视为符合《下一代科学标准》(NGSS)的科学工具——每个工具简化控制但保留核心功能,如计算机视觉用于观测、聚类用于分析、生成模型用于建模。该方法旨在让学生开展真实科学探究,同时发展学科导向的人工智能素养(DAIL),理解其应用边界与潜在误导。强调每个工具应配备特定反思点,引导批判性思考。最后指出,代理型AI可贯穿整个探究流程,但学生必须先掌握基础科学方法和工具使用,才能有效依赖此类系统。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become part of scientific inquiry. Scientists use AI to observe and measure phenomena, to identify patterns in data, and to build models. As AI moves into scientific inquiry, it gains relevance for science education: students should learn how AI is changing scientific practices, ideally by engaging in AI-integrated scientific inquiry themselves. How to design such instruction, grounded in authentic scientific practice rather than taught as a standalone topic, remains an open question. In our vision, which we describe in this article, AI is treated as a set of scientific instruments that students use within the scientific practices described by the Next Generation Science Standards. Each instrument is a genuine scientific tool, pedagogically bounded: its controls are simplified while its core scientific function is preserved. The approach has two aims: engaging students in authentic scientific inquiry, and building an understanding of how AI is used in science and where it can mislead (discipline-based AI literacy, DAIL). In the article, we focus on the investigative core of inquiry, namely observing, analyzing, and modeling, and describe one exemplary AI instrument for each: computer vision for observing, clustering for analyzing, and generative modeling for modeling. We argue that every AI instrument in science education should carry a distinct reflection point that prompts critical evaluation of the AI instrument itself. Finally, we describe how agentic AI, operating across the whole inquiry rather than a single practice, could be represented, arguing that students should first build a foundational understanding of scientific inquiry and AI instruments before relying on agentic AI.

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