The Potential Impact of ChatGPT on Education: Using History as a Rearview Mirror

Highlights This review compares generative artificial intelligence with five representative educational technologies in history and concludes that AI technology can become a knowledge producer and thus can be utilized as educative AI to enhance teaching and learning outcomes. From a historical persp...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mengqian Wang (王梦倩), Wenge Guo (郭文革)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2025-03-01
Series:ECNU Review of Education
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/20965311231189826
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Highlights This review compares generative artificial intelligence with five representative educational technologies in history and concludes that AI technology can become a knowledge producer and thus can be utilized as educative AI to enhance teaching and learning outcomes. From a historical perspective, each technological breakthrough has affected education by changing how symbols are represented and how knowledge is carried. The emergence of new educational technology is always accompanied by doubt, vigilance, and rejection from the traditional community. The new educational technology, generative artificial intelligence, interacts with the old, creating an increasingly complex ecology of educational technology. Three suggestions are proposed for adjusting the education system: first, promoting small-scale, individualized, and conversational teaching in schools; second, developing teachers’ and students’ digital literacy in a multi-curricula system; and third, conducting research on grading and classification standards for the application of AI in education.
ISSN:2096-5311
2632-1742