OpenAI targets students and teachers with online ChatGPT course, but skepticism and privacy concerns loom

The news: OpenAI released a free online course to help K-12 educators bring ChatGPT into their classrooms.

  • The one-hour module goes over specific use cases for ChatGPT in schools, such as generating a class unit or organizing a media agenda, and gives instructions on how to write efficient prompts for the chatbot.
  • The program is deployed in “nearly a dozen” school districts in partnership with Common Sense Media.