Kids are Already Using AI Through Google Search

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Your students don't need ChatGPT to use AI. They have Google.

According to Common Sense Media, the most common place kids meet AI isn't a chatbot app. It's Google Search.

You may have learned a rule: search finds you pages, chatbots write you answers. That rule no longer works. The answer written at the top of the page? A program learned from a pile of writing and guessed it. Examples, patterns, a guess. That's AI.

And Google's AI Mode turns search into a conversation. I asked it to write my book report on Charlotte's Web. It didn't. It gave a short summary and two links. Fine. Then I asked for a chapter. It told me to ask for a section. So I asked for an introduction. It wrote one.

Three tries. The first answer is where the conversation starts, not where it ends. And your students know how to keep asking.