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The Boden family was sitting around the dinner table when Kevin Boden spoke up. A father of eight in a homeschool family, he had spotted a perfect opportunity to educate.<\/p>\n

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He proceeded to read ChatGPT\u2019s answer to the question, \u201cWhat is the Trinity?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty good,\u201d his family told him afterward. \u201cIt seemed accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked this question of ChatGPT,\u201d he told them. It was first time the Boden family discussed AI and, years later, these conversations haven\u2019t stopped.<\/p>\n

A former U.S. Air Force judge advocate, Boden now serves at the Director of Legal and Legislative Advocacy at Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), as well as the head of HSLDA International. Every day, he speaks with homeschooling parents who are trying to offer their children a quality education amid the advancements and unknowns of the 21st century.<\/p>\n

AI is the latest, and potentially most disruptive, of these technologies.<\/p>\n

Boden is quick to acknowledge that homeschooling isn\u2019t insulated from the debates roiling modern education. In fact, some home educators argue that homeschoolers are well-positioned to lead the way in AI adoption.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust generally homeschool moms and dads, they\u2019re open to whatever works,\u201d Dr. Brian Ray, president of the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) and homeschool father of eight, told National Review<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Even 30 years ago, he remembers homeschoolers taking the lead in the implementation of technology within education. He said he surveyed homeschool parents on computer use before it was common in public schools and found that \u201ca very high percent\u201d of parents used computers to educate their children.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t have to wait for \u2018research says.\u2019 They don\u2019t have to wait for professors of education to say, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s good,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cThey just give it a whirl.\u201d<\/p>\n

AI use in homeschooling has not been heavily researched, but Ray referenced a study by the AI education company Age of Learning suggesting that home educators were more willing to use Chat GPT than classroom educators. If these findings are indeed accurate, Ray said he would be \u201cnot surprised at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Melanie Wilson, homeschool mother of six, curriculum writer, convention speaker, and digital content creator, disagrees; she regards homeschoolers as generally more hesitant to embrace technological developments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were some of the last people to embrace online learning . . . and having their kids do classes online using the internet for research,\u201d she told NR. \u201cI\u2019m not saying that they didn\u2019t use it at all, but they were most interested in physical books.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson witnessed the Covid-19 pandemic prompting more home educators to rely on online courses to teach their children, but she believes the pendulum is beginning to swing back.<\/p>\n

\u201cInterestingly enough, in the last couple of homeschool conferences where I was speaking and exhibiting, I heard parents starting to push back against [online classes],\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Wilson believes the same will be true with AI. She says many homeschool parents remain hesitant to embrace a technology they view as potentially dangerous \u2014 but she doesn\u2019t think the hesitancy will last.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we will potentially see people really embracing it and determining what it can do,\u201d she said, \u201cand then maybe again, pulling back from it and saying, \u2018Hey, there are some things that I don\u2019t like about this, and it can become too much for our kids.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

She said parents will likely use AI for its organizational abilities and to teach children topics that would otherwise be \u201csticking points\u201d for parents and students alike.<\/p>\n

\u201cA parent could say, \u2018You know, my child is really struggling with long division. Can you suggest some videos that you think might really click with this particular child?\u2019\u201d Wilson explained. She stressed, however, that AI should never be a replacement for learning things like basic math or writing skills.<\/p>\n

Working at HSLDA, Boden has encountered a wide range of parent responses to AI, from parents encouraging their 13- and 14-year-olds to learn how to prompt AI to collect data or write to others who entirely forbid their kids from using it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think one of the blessings of home education in general is that you can craft it around the child,\u201d he told NR. \u201cInstead of, for example, an elementary school or a high school saying, \u2018Hey, you can\u2019t use AI in this function. We as a parent can say, \u2018Well, for this child, it kind of makes sense. They\u2019re in 12th grade now, not ninth grade. They\u2019ve learned to write. I\u2019m confident in their abilities. And so they can learn how to supplement this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wilson also believes this individualized nature of home education could play into homeschoolers\u2019 willingness to use AI.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think once homeschooling parents understand that they could create their own chatbots for their particular children \u2014 for their particular family,\u201d she said, \u201cI think the usage of AI in your homeschool become really exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson explained that these chatbots could be specially developed to assist each child with his or her particular academic weaknesses, never as a substitute for parent instruction in most topics but as a minor supplement for specific subjects.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could develop a particular chatbot for one of my kids who, for example, has a particular problem with math. . . . I know that when they get the wrong answer, they just kind of shut down,\u201d she said, \u201cso I could give a chatbot instructions to point out to that child, \u2018This is what you did correctly on this particular problem. Now the only thing we have to correct is this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson said she is especially excited about the potential for AI use in searching within closed databases or data sets. She said this could be a more controlled means of ensuring content is family friendly.<\/p>\n

In the long run, Ray believes advancements like AI could contribute to a small increase in numbers within the homeschool community but does not expect drastic changes.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I]t\u2019s just one more straw that lightens the camel\u2019s back,\u201d Ray said, though he acknowledged that AI \u201cwill enable an increasing number of people who thought maybe they were incompetent to homeschool their children.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boden said AI has led many home educators to wrestle with a fundamental question: What does it mean to get an education \u2014 to truly learn? The way parents answer this question points to their purpose for homeschooling, whether it is that their children attain a certain level of knowledge, work through a specific curriculum, or just check off the boxes mandatory for completing high school.<\/p>\n

Boden stressed that AI use in education, and online education in general, should never supplement in-person relationships. He used his daughter\u2019s online French class as an example.<\/p>\n

\u201c[S]he\u2019s in some level of relationship with the peers there and the instructor, but it\u2019s not really a relationship like she shares with us,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s not even the same level of relationship that she would be in if she were to gather physically with those people \u2014 if she could shake her teacher\u2019s hand or see her entire mannerisms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ray likewise cautions homeschoolers not to lose sight of the heart of home education in their eagerness to embrace AI.<\/p>\n

\u201cHome education is largely about relationships,\u201d he said. \u201c[U]sing AI more and more and more can lend itself to less and less relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also stressed the importance of boundaries in AI use. Like Boden and Wilson, he believes AI cannot qualify as a person and should not be treated as a substitute for interpersonal relationship nor as a source of absolute truth.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you believe that the responses you\u2019re getting from AI are necessarily better than your own brain, you\u2019re in trouble,\u201d Ray said. \u201cI also hope and pray that parents are teaching their children first the fundamentals of reading, writing and arithmetic before they before they turn them loose using AI, unless it\u2019s to help them learn the fundamentals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boden said AI is an unavoidable element of the world we live in, so exercising wise stewardship is crucial.<\/p>\n

\u201c[T]he advice that I give the most to parents is think long and hard about your own heart in this matter,\u201d he said. \u201cAre you operating from a position of fear?\u201d<\/p>\n

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