Seminar Postponed - Prof. Corrado Petrucco - AI-Enhanced Digital Scholarship: How Cognitive Offloading Is Reshaping Information Literacy Researc

Seminar Postponed - Prof. Corrado Petrucco - AI-Enhanced Digital Scholarship: How Cognitive Offloading Is Reshaping Information Literacy Researc

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The seminar:

"AI-Enhanced Digital Scholarship: How Cognitive Offloading Is Reshaping Information Literacy Research", 

originally scheduled for today Jun 3 14:30   is postponed to   ---->Thursday Jun 25, 14:30.

This seminar offers doctoral students in Education Sciences a hands-on immersion into AI tools, academic search engines, citation managers, with a critical lens on how such tools intersect with information literacy and cognitive offloading.

Main topics covered:
The seminar will explore how AI is increasingly embedded in research workflows, from semantic search to prompt design and text summarization. We will also examine how citation management systems are being enhanced by AI, offering recommendations and automated organization. A central theme will be cognitive offloading, the tendency to delegate mental effort to machines and its implications for scholarly work. Particular attention will be paid to the trade-offs between reducing effort and the potential erosion of critical thinking and deep learning. Finally, we will discuss how scaffolded metacognitive strategies can help balance the advantages of AI support with the need to sustain active intellectual engagement.

Thanks,

---prof. Corrado Petrucco