{"ID":23507421,"CreatedAt":"2026-09-18T02:21:44.056544415Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-09-20T18:11:56.143995915Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20738","arxiv_id":"2609.20738","title":"Harnessing Generative UI for Education: Tailored Learning Interactives","abstract":"It is well established that students learn best through active engagement, particularly via interactive experiences tied to real-world concepts. Creating such experiences, however, typically requires labor-intensive design, costly development, and continuous teacher guidance to achieve measurably effective outcomes. Recent advances in generative UI open the door for a future of practice where the creation of tailored interactive experiences is automated. However, off-the-shelf models lack optimization for pedagogical precision and learning principles, often yielding unsatisfactory results for complex pedagogical constructs. To address these limitations, we present learning interactives, a structured framework leveraging the generative UI capabilities of Gemini to construct effective customized interactive simulations. We evaluate our approach through both an initial study with educators as well as a pedagogical rating of a varied set of simulations by expert teachers.","short_abstract":"It is well established that students learn best through active engagement, particularly via interactive experiences tied to real-world concepts. Creating such experiences, however, typically requires labor-intensive design, costly development, and continuous teacher guidance to achieve measurably effective outcomes. Re...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20738","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.20738v1","authors":"[\"Alisa Kovshov\",\"Anisha Choudhury\",\"Anna Iurchenko\",\"Amy Keeling\",\"Avinatan Hassidim\",\"Ayelet Shasha Evron\",\"Ayça Çakmakli\",\"Diana Akrong\",\"Femi Olanubi\",\"Gal Elidan\",\"Ian Li\",\"Ido Lerer\",\"Katherine Chou\",\"Lidan Hackmon\",\"Michal Gordon\",\"Nir Kerem\",\"Niv Efron\",\"Preeti Singh\",\"Rena Levitt\",\"Rotem Yulzary\",\"Shlomi Ben Shimon\",\"Sophie Allweis\",\"Tracey Lee-Joe\",\"Tzvika Stein\",\"Yaniv Carmel\",\"Yael Haramaty\",\"Yishay Mor\",\"Yossi Matias\",\"Yuri Lev\"]","published":"2026-09-17T17:26:13Z","proceeding":"cs.CY","tasks":"[\"cs.CY\"]","methods":"[]","has_code":false}