Tried Using ChatGPT to Help with English Writing – Surprisingly Effective!
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@Aurorarroll Not responding to you specifically, but just a general comment about allowing kids to use AI for studies. My kids grew up pre-AI, so I don’t have completely relevant experience, but I have supervised my kids’ studies closely, and also homeschooled a bit, so these are my views:
Kids need to go through the hard effort of doing things unaided in order to build skills. Like walking or swimming or cycling - they first rely on some help, then need to do it unaided to build the skills, strength, confidence. Without those hours of unaided practice, they won’t develop those skills, at least not to a reasonably high degree.
Using aids is a slippery slope - parents may know that the child needs to practise without aids, but will the child agree with this and comply? Or will they resent the discipline and effort, and surreptitiously use the aids when the parent isn’t looking? If parents aren’t sure that they can police the use of these aids, perhaps it’s better to hold off introducing them till later.
I don’t hold with the argument that introducing things later will mean that the child is losing out and won’t catch up. We’re not talking about delaying till they are 50, just maybe till they are 18 or 20. They will catch up more quickly than you think, and will have had a better chance to develop the underlying skills than those who were introduced to the “easy” way early on.
I’m also not saying that kids shouldn’t see AI in use, or have a go at using it for daily tasks, holiday planning, out of school activities, or even for learning etc. But I think that kids should be required to work on developing academic skills through effort without aids, and all homework and anything submitted for assessment is done without AI, at least up to JC, and restricted up to poly or university level.
Just my thoughts.
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@kakasi63 said in Tried Using ChatGPT to Help with English Writing – Surprisingly Effective!:
@kakasi63 We tried something similar too! I let my son use a free version on gptopenai.fr Stickman Hook— no login needed, and it responds quite fast. He mainly uses it to get ideas for compo and expand vocabulary. It’s not perfect, but surprisingly useful for brainstorming.
If you get a chance, let your son try the paid version, it answers quickly and is extremely relevant to your questions.
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Interesting approach! Using ChatGPT for brainstorming and oral practice is clever. We’ve found something similar with our son and building confidence for his skiing during a trip, a bit like a Snow Rider tackling a slope! It’s about guiding, not replacing, the learning process. Has anyone tried using it to help structure paragraphs or improve sentence variety? Good points!
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AI can be a valuable tool for English students and learners, offering several benefits:
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Information Gathering
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Concept Understanding
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Knowledge Summariser
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My kid was using ChatGPT to copy full answers for maths/science homework, they weren’t learning anything. So as a software guy, I purposely built a hint mode into an AI app I made called Acepal.net
It provides hints that guide thinking without directly giving the answer. My kids are actually learning now instead of cheating! Feel free to try it
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