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Guide to ChatGPT for Parents and Caregivers 

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Guide to ChatGPT for Parents and Caregivers 

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By Raisa Masood | August 30, 2023

What is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is a computer program that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate text. Launched by research company OpenAI, it gathers large amounts of data from the internet to create responses on demand. ChatGPT is unique because its answers are in conversational format, similar to how people write and speak. It can write essays and computer code, solve math problems, and much more.

How do you use ChatGPT?

To use ChatGPT, you first create a free account on the OpenAI website. Then you simply type questions or commands in the text box. Your requests can be as basic or elaborate as you can imagine. For example, you could ask it to write a story in the voice of your favorite movie character. Or ask it to give you a recipe based on the food you have at home. The tool allows you to continue to refine the answer by adding more instructions. ChatGPT saves a record of your conversations that you can view or continue at a later time.

Where does ChatGPT get its information?

To craft its responses, ChatGPT copies and remixes information from other places on the internet. It doesn't tell you its sources or who created the original information. As of this article's publication date, it uses internet data created up to 2021 only. The tool is still being developed, so it can make mistakes, spread misinformation, and give inaccurate answers.

Why are schools banning ChatGPT?

Many school districts are blocking ChatGPT on campus networks and school-issued devices. The concern is that students could use it to do their schoolwork for them, from writing papers to solving equations. They could also be turning in work with inaccurate information. Educators are worried the program could affect students' learning if they rely on it. Check with your children's school to see if and how they allow students to use ChatGPT.

Should children use ChatGPT?

OpenAI's Terms of Use state that users must be 13 or older. If you're under 18, you need your parent or guardian's permission to create an account. Keep in mind that kids could come across content that's not age-appropriate. In addition, ChatGPT collects personal information and user data. This info is used to improve the system and can be shared with third parties for things like advertising. Under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), collecting personal information from children under the age of 13 is illegal without parental consent.

If kids are interested in using ChatGPT, the best option is to use it alongside an adult. Kids could use ChatGPT with a parent or caregiver to get ideas about things they're interested in, like writing code or music. Families can explore the tool together and try prompts that are fun, inspiring, or helpful. Ask it to write a play with parts for everyone, or put together a poem in Yoda's style to read out loud.

Since ChatGPT is a new program, there's a lot we don't know about it. As artificial intelligence tools become more available, it will be important for families to talk with kids about how to use them appropriately and responsibly.

How can I talk to my child about ChatGPT?

If your children use or want to use ChatGPT, consider talking about these topics:

Explain the importance of checking the credibility of a source before trusting the information, and point out that ChatGPT does not give sources for its information.

Help them understand that plagiarism is when you take someone else's work or ideas and present them as your own. Using ChatGPT to do your schoolwork could be considered plagiarism or cheating.

Talk about how you might use ChatGPT as a family to be creative or get inspired. Have it create a list of outdoor activities for kids, or ask it to suggest a craft project to try.

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Find out how the artificial intelligence (AI) tool works and how to talk with kids about it. Advice from Common Sense Media editors.

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How Will AI Like ChatGPT Change Education for Our Children?

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The article you are about to read was written by a human.

Or was it?

Could you tell? Does it matter?

These are some of the questions teachers, professors, and college deans have been asking themselves since November, when new technology called ChatGPT (short for chat generative pre-trained transformer, in case it ever comes up in a trivia game) debuted.

ChatGPT is a text-generating bot made by artificial intelligence lab Open AI, and it has quickly fascinated and terrified those who have tested it to see what it can do. Need a version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" written in the style of the Broadway musical Hamilton? Or a 500-word college essay explaining why a high school senior would want to attend the University of Pennsylvania? ChatGPT can produce surprisingly impressive versions of either in 30 seconds or less. It is a brave new world.

Within days of the bot's launch, some were declaring the college essay "dead" and questioning the future of education when students can access a tool like ChatGPT, which has been compared to a calculator for writing, and lean on it to complete their homework assignments. The New York Times reported that the public school systems in New York and Seattle already banned ChatGPT from student use entirely.

Then, in just as short a time, programmers- some still in college themselves-began developing apps that could detect text generated by AI, and the University of California released an announcement that they would be contacting students whose Personal Insight Questions-the UC system's version of the college essay-didn't pass a very technologically advanced version of a sniff test.

What AI Technology Means for Education

So now what? Will AI tools like ChatGPT affect the future of education, and how? Educators say AI will change education, but exactly how is still unclear.

"We have to learn to use it, because it's not going away," says Lillian Gilbert, an AP English teacher at Jupiter High School in Jupiter, Florida. "I do not see ChatGPT as 'evil.' It's inevitable. I remember when I had to go to the library and use books for research, but now, I can Google the info on my computer. Or when I used a beeper before the cell phone. The world is evolving."

Gilbert has already used ChatGPT in her classroom by having her students analyze its responses to argumentative prompts and explain where the answer generated by AI was weak and needed elaboration. "I do think it can be an incredible learning tool," she says.

Embracing AI products like ChatGPT is essential for teachers like her, Gilbert believes. "I do understand the concerns with it," she says. "However, in the world of education, we need to learn how to adapt, and that is what teachers are used to doing and doing well. It means we need to be inventive, the same way we needed to be when the pandemic occurred, re-evaluating what we emphasize in the classroom, allowing students to struggle without penalizing them, helping our students grow as critical thinkers."

How AI Technology Can Benefit Students

Though the biggest fear surrounding ChatGPT has been with academic dishonesty, the definition of "cheating" is not always as clear as we might think, says Jonathan Meer, Ph.D., professor and director of undergraduate programs in economics at Texas A&M.

Dr. Meer, who has been following the developments of ChatGPT closely as part of his work studying the economics of education, already caught a student trying to use the bot to complete his weekly economics homework, which he considered an inappropriate use of the tool. However, he also sees that the technology could be used appropriately by some students, with the approval and guidance of their professors.

"Where is the line between having a friend read over your essay and give you suggestions, going to the writing center and having a tutor show you how to reorganize a paragraph, having Grammarly installed on your computer, or using GPT?" he asks. "There's no bright line rule here. It's really context-specific."

Dr. Meer, himself the father of two school-age children, says he can see ChatGPT and products like it meaning different things for different points in a child's education. "You can't let a third grader use this when they are learning to write an essay," he says. "Can a Ph.D. student use it to write a paper? I don't see why not."

ChatGPT can be used as a complement or a substitute to students' work, Dr. Meer says, and educators will have to get creative about how they structure their assignments knowing it exists. "It does mean more work for instructors, which is a problem. It's rethinking things," he says.

Joel Samuels, J.D., who serves as both a professor of law and the dean of the college of arts and sciences at the University of South Carolina, says the advent of products like ChatGPT is presenting an opportunity for both educators and parents to discuss and "openly critique" technology like this and its implications with our children.

"You can be passive when you're reading a book or watching a movie with your child-in which case, you let the book or TV show set the narrative-or you can use that moment as an opportunity to connect with them," he says. "You can ask, 'Why do you think that character was smoking?' Or, 'Why do you think they reacted that way?' In the same way, I think this is an opportunity to engage with children about technology every bit as we can or would or should about media or other areas."

Gilbert also sees ChatGPT as a chance for parents to talk to their children about what is important and the true purpose of education. "As parents, we need to teach them about the morality of it and the consequences that arise when they are not analytical thinkers. We do not want to end up mirroring the humans in Wall-E," she says. "Recently, I had to have a frank conversation with my middle-school aged son, who is lightyears more advanced in the realm of technology than I am. He wanted to use ChatGPT to draft a speech. Being open about integrity, academic or otherwise, is important in developing character for our children."

Whether we like it or not, "It is here to stay and it will only become better with time," Gilbert adds. So the bottom line? "Teach children about honesty and consequences and how to use it responsibly."

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The article you are about to read was written by a human. Or was it? Could you tell? Does it matter? These are some of the questions teachers, professors, and college deans have been asking themselves since November, when new technology called ChatGPT (short for chat generative pre-trained transformer, in case it ever comes up in a trivia game) debuted.

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