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The "Shortcut Pedagogy" Illusion: When Teachers Mistake the Speed of AI for the Quality of Instruction

Educators who master basic prompting quickly reach a peak of confidence, believing AI can automate planning, grading, and differentiation. Drawing on Dunning-Kruger research, the illusion of explanatory depth, and 2025 evidence that confidence in AI predicts less critical thinking while self-confidence predicts more, this article names the result shortcut pedagogy: generic, biased, pedagogically shallow content scaled at speed, with diagnostic feedback outsourced before the tool's limits are understood. Training must build the descent: calibrated trust…

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