TORONTO — Back-to-school prep for Toronto mom Valerie Tih involves homework she’s assigned to herself — a crash course in artificial intelligence tools that she expects her sons may encounter this school year.
Describing the advent of online helpers like ChatGPT as “coming like a tsunami,” Tih says she’s spending the last weeks of summer learning what she can about how they work and what they can do.
But until then, it’s up to her to make sure her kids can navigate an academic career vastly different from the one she had. She says her older son has already told her of a classmate caught using an unsanctioned AI tool for a Grade 8 assignment last year. “Between ages 13 and 15 there is a cognitive shift that makes them more able to have abstract thinking and as a result, they do have these internal moral debates – especially if parents and teachers bring that up,” says Pagani.
Both had heard about AI-powered chatbots but had little direct experience. And both insisted they would never use them to plagiarize — an offence their school has been explicit about, she says. She says she's readying her kids for digital challenges by making sure they are comfortable turning to her for help when they need it, that they have good self-esteem and that they develop a strong work ethic.
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