AI and the Sense of Learner Identity for Generation Z
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Generation Z seems both transactional and more of a consumer than an engaged, adaptive, resilient or exploratory learner. Their persona is strongly tied to their understanding that learning leads to jobs. Their use of AI and related technologies is strongly linked to this persona, and this is also their rationale for using AI for "cheating." Higher education is about more than consumption. It is about personal growth and development, adaptability, creativity and imagination. It is about what the Japanese call Ikigai. This paper explores the personas at play in higher education, the nature of Ikigai, and the changes that are needed to shift Generation Z to adopt a broader understanding of the purpose of their education and strengthen their Ikigai.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it