Educators' written ideas about ChatGPT in education followed four themes: fostering AI literacy, acting as a character, improving learning, and serving as a teacher's help¶

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q2 i? Educators proposed ChatGPT roles including role play, learning companion, brainstorming aid, and lesson planning support. → Ulla Hemminki-Reijonen 2025

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Ulla Hemminki-Reijonen 2025¶

Ulla Hemminki-Reijonen, Noha M. A. M. Hassan, Minna Huotilainen, Jaana-Maija Koivisto & Benjamin Ultan Cowley. (2025). Design of generative AI-powered pedagogy for virtual reality environments in higher education. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00326-1

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Analysis of 35 written ideas submitted by K12-to-higher-education educators in a public social-media competition, coded inductively; "the ideas presented by educators followed four themes" organized in Table 2 (comparison, role play, brainstorming, lesson planning, among other categories).

"In the freeform written idea submissio n sa sp o s t si nr e l a t e dF a c e b o o k groups of Dataset 2, the ideas presented by educators followed four themes that ChatGPT could do in teaching as shown in Table2."

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