Leveraging AI in Education Powered by Intelligent Social Experiment

AI's rapid development has significantly driven the educational transformation process. During this process, opportunities and challenges coexist. How to leverage AI in education, mitigating the problems while enhancing the benefits, and decision-makers is a crucial issue for educational researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers. Toward this question, this study proposed the methodology of the Intelligent Social Experiment (ISE), which examines the practice of AI applications in education powered by techniques enhanced through intelligent technologies. The conceptualization, frameworks’ vital elements of this method, and the process model have been described. Additionally, this study illustrates two exploratory studies that examine AI technologies’ application in K 12 classrooms in China and the application of Elion-an Intelligent Chinese Composition Tutoring System based on Large Language Models (LLMs). The purpose is to validate the framework of the Intelligent Social Experiment. Finally, the implications of ISE were highlighted, and potential future research directions were discussed.