LitLinker: Supporting the Ideation of Interdisciplinary Contexts with Large Language Models for Teaching Literature in Elementary Schools

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16097v1
• Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 05:40:19 GMT
• Title: LitLinker: Supporting the Ideation of Interdisciplinary Contexts with Large Language Models for Teaching Literature in Elementary Schools
• Authors: Haoxiang Fan, Changshuang Zhou, Hao Yu, Xueyang Wu, Jiangyu Gu, Zhenhui Peng,
• Abstract summary: We develop LitLinker to facilitate the ideation of interdisciplinary contexts for teaching literature.<n>Powered by a large language model (LLM), LitLinker can recommend interdisciplinary topics and contextualize them with the literary elements in the reading materials.
• Score: 10.13013479641908
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Teaching literature under interdisciplinary contexts (e.g., science, art) that connect reading materials has become popular in elementary schools. However, constructing such contexts is challenging as it requires teachers to explore substantial amounts of interdisciplinary content and link it to the reading materials. In this paper, we develop LitLinker via an iterative design process involving 13 teachers to facilitate the ideation of interdisciplinary contexts for teaching literature. Powered by a large language model (LLM), LitLinker can recommend interdisciplinary topics and contextualize them with the literary elements (e.g., paragraphs, viewpoints) in the reading materials. A within-subjects study (N=16) shows that compared to an LLM chatbot, LitLinker can improve the integration depth of different subjects and reduce workload in this ideation task. Expert interviews (N=9) also demonstrate LitLinker's usefulness for supporting the ideation of interdisciplinary contexts for teaching literature. We conclude with concerns and design considerations for supporting interdisciplinary teaching with LLMs.

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