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Perspectives with Dr. Christine Garcia
Cultivating Curiosity in the Age of ChatGPT
September brings the waning days of summer–the end of camps, reunions with friends back from summer vacations, and the return to school. This year, students will have access to a new (unexpected) companion–ChatGPT.
Psychology Today (February 2023) cited the "moral panic" many parents and educators feel with the advent of technology that may lead to plagiarism–how will kids learn if all they have to do is create a prompt to produce a paper or answer that can be virtually impossible to distinguish from human work? On the other hand, psychologists have noted the technology's potential for creating moments of discussion about its uses and producing environments of "practice" for kids who are shy, have social anxiety, or are learning to read social-emotional cues. Angela Duckworth, Ph.D., a psychologist who has studied grit and resilience, notes, "We must find a way forward in which such technologies complement, rather than substitute for, student thinking." Even so, all this talk leads to questions such as, how do we wrap our minds around this latest companion? As responsible parents and caregivers, how do we think about artificial intelligence (AI)? (continued)
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