ChatGPT taught in schools?

[Biscuitsformeandyou]

Hi all, my primary aged DC is learning how to code simple games at school. ChatGPT/other models can generate the code for this immediately upon request. Do you agree that children should be taught how to best interact and utilise ChatGPT-like tools as this is inevitably the future?

I understand it’s the future but how about schools consider teaching life skills first.

• Money talk like budgeting and understanding how mortgages work.
• Learning the basics of cooking. What each type of knife is used for and how to cook standard food like pasta, eggs, etc.
• learning about your body. Not just sex talk, but how to insert a tampon or how our bodies are unique. I grew up thinking I was weird for having innie nipples for example, I know children would benefit knowing their bodies are unique and ok even if they’re ‘different’ from the norm
• twlk about relationships, I feel that if I had education on abuse/toxic relationships I would have known the behaviour wasn’t normal and what signs to look out for. I feel like things like this would prevent so many young people from getting into abusive relationships and even not feeling pressured into sex etc
• so much more education on work and taster sessions. So many kids are forced to choose a career from when they’re teenagers and they grow up in jobs they hate just because they’re educated in that career. There needs to be so many more tasters and experience in different careers so children can get different vibes on what they like or don’t.

@thecherryfox that's what parents are for. I didn't get two degrees to teach kids how to cook pasta. The money stuff is irrelevant until Y13 and even then they don't want to know about pensions and compound interest. Also, what we teach in 2025 may be out of date by the time they get to a point to use it.
Re relationships, schools do huge amounts of PSHE / sex ed etc. Literally loads, right from young primary to Y13. It doesn't matter what you do in a classroom setting, the complexities of emotional relationships aren't a curriculum to deliver. You can cover the law, consent, STIs and pregnancy what counts as abuse etc but I've taught teenagers for thirty years and they won't be learning how to dump a twat from Sir or Miss in p5 Wednesday .