The Goldilocks Zone Supersized
Abstract
This chapter examines how educators must fundamentally reconceptualize their classroom practice when AI radically expands what students can achieve. While Chapter 7 outlined new capabilities and Chapter 10 will address assignment design, this chapter confronts one transformative reality: the Zone of Proximal Development has not disappeared but exploded outward, demanding wholesale recalibration of our pedagogical instincts. The outward expansion of the Zone of Proximal Development is not an abstract theory but a lived reality in classrooms.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Artificial Intelligence in Education
Digital Education and Society
Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 141–154
- Publication date
- 19 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter