Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI interactions and intervene when necessary, or join the conversation and provide guidance or feedback. Reid: Those ideas are exciting, but they remind me to ask about students in younger grades. Can you help stu- dents and teachers in elementary school, kindergarten, and preschool? GPT-4: I can help students in elementary school, kinder- garten, and preschool by providing their teachers with fun and engaging activities that stimulate their cogni- tive, social, emotional, and physical development. I can help teachers at those levels by: - Developing customized lesson plans and activity guides based upon their customized preferences. - Suggesting personalized interventions or strategies to address specific learning challenges. - Synthesizing for them a wide range of resources and materials that suit their curriculum goals and pedagogi- cal approaches. These ideas from GPT-4—and many others that emerged during our interactions over the course of this chapter—start to vaguely suggest the possible benefits of LLMs for teachers, and through teachers to students, in even the most disadvantaged communities throughout America. Of course, if we want education to help lift up truly massive numbers of children of low-income parents, we need to look beyond our borders. The children of the world On average, about 25 percent of the earth’s population con- sists of children under fifteen. Latin America and India hit that average; Europe and North America skew a bit older. Africa, 40
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