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title: "ChatGPT in School"
description: "With the right mindset, ChatGPT gives you a superpower."
date: 2023-02-09
tags: [ai, ai-and-jobs, learning]
url: https://nem035.com/thoughts/chatgpt-in-schools
---

[https://chat.openai.com](ChatGPT)

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Not allowing ChatGPT in schools feels like a step backwards. 

No rule can stop a determined cheater. Remember coding test answers in your graphing calculators?

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/02/technology/calculators-throw-teachers-a-new-curve.html

The point of education isn't to get you to pass the test. It's to make learning fun, and to teach why it matters. 

Your culture determines your approach to learning so much more than any tool.

With the right mindset, this technology gives you a superpower.

Every significant technological innovation allowed you to do more than you could ever do before precisely because it made it [orders of magnitude easier](/thoughts/chatgpt) to do what you do now.

If any efforts are to be made as a reaction to ChatGPT, it should be figuring out how to incorporate it into education, not try to lock it out.

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/29/opinion/l-calculator-has-become-invaluable-tool-314690.html