Three-stage Practical Pathways for Cultivating High School Geography Thinking Through GAI Empowerment

Ren Yang, Li Chunyan, Zhang Shulin

Geography Teaching ›› 2026, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (11) : 9-16.

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Three-stage Practical Pathways for Cultivating High School Geography Thinking Through GAI Empowerment

  • Ren Yang, Li Chunyan, Zhang Shulin
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The cultivation of geographical thinking is an important mission for implementing subject-based education and a signifi cant carrier for fostering key competencies in geography. The“General Senior High School Geography Curriculum Standards (Revised Edition)”explicitly emphasizes the cultivation of disciplinary thinking, requiring the development of students' comprehensive thinking and regional cognitive abilities, highlighting the fundamental task of moral education and talent cultivation. This paper addresses the current predicament in the cultivation of geographical thinking in high schools, where there is a lack of prediction, strategies, and measurement tools. By leveraging the advantages of generative artifi cial intelligence in teaching assistance, student learning support, and research assistance, it constructs a geographical thinking cultivation tool centered on“GAI dialogue, intelligent agents, and AI classroom analysis systems,”and based on this, designs a three-stage practical path:“pre-class simulation of thinking and precise prediction of learning situations - in-class construction of collaboration and assistance for thinking advancement - post-class eff ect review and optimization of cultivation strategies.”

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generative arti? cial intelligence / geographical thinking cultivation / tools and practical paths / key competencies in geography

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Ren Yang, Li Chunyan, Zhang Shulin. Three-stage Practical Pathways for Cultivating High School Geography Thinking Through GAI Empowerment[J]. Geography Teaching. 2026, 0(11): 9-16

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