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How to homeschool with ChatGPT—Your personal homeschooling assistant

How to use ChatGPT as your Homeschooling Assistant

If you’re anything like me, you’re addicted to coffee and writing something in order to procrastinate writing something more urgent. But, to be more on topic, you also view the rise of AI with a mix of intrigue and skepticism.

My biggest fear about using AI for homeschooling was being given bad information. (That and becoming a Matrix-esque pawn in the grand designs of my new digital master.) Of course, getting bogus info was the main argument against search engines when they were new, and we learned how to navigate them. So, I felt I should stay cautiously open-minded.

I began to explore, with suspicion, the capabilities of AI via the ultra-scientific method of screwing around with it. And, lo and behold, I discovered that this tool is good for more than just rewriting the Gettysburg Address in the style of Dr. Seuss. (But if you’re bored, it will do that, too.)

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Issue 6: The power of your words, an ice pop hack, and history resources that highlight under-told stories

1 inspiring quote + 2 pro-homeschooler tips + 3 can’t-miss resources =
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One Inspiring Quote

“If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”

– from Teacher and Child: A Book for Parents and Teachers by Haim G. Ginott

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Issue 5: How homeschooling is like running a business, musical resources, and lessons for life skills

1 inspiring quote + 2 pro-homeschooler tips + 3 can’t-miss resources =
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“School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.”

– from Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich

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Issue 2: What an education should NOT do, ideas for summer learning, and an amazing virtual tour

1 inspiring quote + 2 pro-homeschooler tips + 3 can’t-miss resources =
the 5-minute coffee companion you can’t start your homeschool day without.

One Inspiring Quote

“Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.”

– from Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto

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