{"id":96267,"date":"2025-07-27T14:05:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T18:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=96267"},"modified":"2025-07-27T14:05:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T18:05:52","slug":"openais-education-head-says-real-learning-takes-struggle-not-just-chatgpt-help-curry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/07\/27\/openais-education-head-says-real-learning-takes-struggle-not-just-chatgpt-help-curry\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s Education Head Says Real Learning Takes Struggle\u2014Not Just ChatGPT Help [Curry]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2025\/07\/openai-education-head-ai-for-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>OpenAI\u2019s Education Head Says Real Learning Takes Struggle\u2014Not Just ChatGPT Help<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from observer.com by Rachel Curry; via Ray Schroeder on LinkedIn<br \/>\n<em>Students must struggle to learn, and offloading to ChatGPT risks weakening critical thinking skills, OpenAI&#8217;s head of education warns.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cWe know that true learning takes friction. It takes struggle,\u201d said Mills. \u201cYou have to engage with the materials, and if students offload all of that work to a tool like ChatGPT, they will not learn those skills and they will not gain that critical thinking. That said, when ChatGPT is used correctly as a learning assistant and as a tutor, the results are powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Given that 40 percent of ChatGPT users are under the age of 24\u2014and that learning is the platform\u2019s number one use case, according to Mills\u2014the need to fine-tune guardrails is becoming increasingly urgent. Pew Research reports that\u00a0twice as many teens now use ChatGPT\u00a0for schoolwork compared to 2023, with nearly one-third of teen respondents saying it\u2019s acceptable to use the tool to solve math problems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In response, Mills said OpenAI is actively researching what appropriate A.I. use in education looks like, with plans to share that guidance widely and rapidly with educators around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s Education Head Says Real Learning Takes Struggle\u2014Not Just ChatGPT Help &#8212; from observer.com by Rachel Curry; via Ray Schroeder on LinkedIn Students must struggle to learn, and offloading to ChatGPT risks weakening critical thinking skills, OpenAI&#8217;s head of education warns. \u201cWe know that true learning takes friction. 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