There is no stopping the impact AI technology will have going forward, and ChatGPT is likely just the start of this era in education. <\/p>\n

Parents are on the front lines in guiding their children through this transition and ensuring their children are aware of the risks and benefits of the technology. <\/p>\n

“<\/strong>Parents need to figure out what their child knows about ChatGPT first, so that way they can correct any misinformation they\u2019ve been given on it,\u201d Shawnte Barnes, an education consultant who previously taught K-12 and has twin sons, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, you want to know if what they heard is based in facts, or if they heard something that’s really outlandish. Then you clarify what they heard,\u201d before you talk about what you know about ChatGPT, she added.<\/p>\n

Another way to address ChatGPT is for parents to explore the platform with children and work with a child\u2019s curiosity about the new technology.  <\/p>\n

\u201cThat overall approach of curiosity and labeling it as a tool that could be used for many different purposes helps set an expectation of learning and exploration rather than if a parent labels something in a negative way or in a positive way, you miss out on that opportunity of exploration and discovering together what the possibilities are,\u201d Pasnik said. <\/p>\n

ChatGPT is similar to other technology, with benefits and concerns that come with it, and parents can largely treat the conversations with their kids in that way. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe way that parents should be talking to their kids about ChatGPT, just like they should with everything else, is there are really potentially positive ways to use this technology and there are some, you know, unethical and or dangerous ways that the technology can be used,\u201d Albert said. <\/p>\n

Albert showed his own daughter ChatGPT and how it could type up an essay for school. He then followed it with a conversation about the platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a conversation about cheating, about her ethics, about what kind of person she wanted to be, but we also had a conversation about what is learning, do we care about a grade or do we care about the process, do you know why do we go through the process?\u201d Albert said.<\/p>\n

Parents’ concerns with ChatGPT<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Parents may have concerns about how their kids are using technology and how it will affect them, especially when it comes to new advances that are not yet broadly understood.<\/p>\n

In line with concerns from educators and school districts, some parents are concerned about the cheating threat ChatGPT poses. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of legitimate concerns that parents should have regarding ChatGPT the most obvious is cheating,” said Albert, who is the director at the Teshinsky Family Foundation in California. <\/p>\n

OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, previously said in a statement it is working with schools to address these concerns. <\/p>\n

Another worry may be how much time children could spend on ChatGPT. <\/p>\n

A survey last year by Common Sense Media found screen time increased 17 percent between 2019 and 2021 among tweens and teens, taking up hours of their day. <\/p>\n

ChatGPT may be another distraction, as children explore what the platform is capable of doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen there’s the \u2018man, you spent the whole hour putting random questions and prompts into ChatGPT and you haven’t cleaned your room, you haven’t come out and said hey,\u201d Barnes said. <\/p>\n

Ultimately, one of the biggest fears could be fear of the unknown, as many are still just getting familiar with AI technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have no idea where AI will go in terms of ethical and moral questions, so that’s a big concern,\u201d Albert said. \u201cParents need to be concerned as their children are on the internet, who’s on the other side of a particular conversation that they may be having? At this point, it gets to be a question of, well, is it an AI or is it a person, right?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(The Hill) \u2013 Parents have a new platform to contend with in the battle to keep up with the ever-growing technological advances in their children\u2019s lives: ChatGPT.  The new AI technology has become so popular that some schools have banned it as it makes its way into the lives of K-12 and college students around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/aiphone_012723_gettyimages_chatgpt.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11679,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11678\/revisions\/11679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}