"Certainly for younger children, for elementary age [and] preschoolers, they definitely need adult involvement navigating the digital world period, let alone a digital world which may have that much more ... inaccurate information," she adds.
Even without the concern of misinformation, you should still supervise your kids' AI sessions for a simple reason, says Klein: You understand context and nuance better than machines do.
Covid-era research shows that remote-learning wasn't particularly effective for younger children — and, in some ways, may have been harmful to their behavioral and learning development.
"Interacting with humans is so important for children: It's how they learn to relate and to read people and to read cues.
Even if the child's struggling, that kind of feedback is really important," Klein says.
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Microsoft, Barnard College Center, Development, Columbia University