ChatGPT training, reading, critical thinking and creativity

Authors

  • Joaquim Valls Morató Euncet Business School

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31637/epsir-2025-1194

Keywords:

ChatGPT training, early childhood education, reading, critical thinking, creativity, memory, generative intelligence and executive intelligence, language and human thought

Abstract

Introduction: This article reviews the relationship between the training of the ChatGPT model and the methodologies used by parents and teachers to teach children expert reading, and thereby encourage critical thinking and creativity. Methodology: An exhaustive narrative review of the scientific literature was carried out, using academic databases and popular books. Results: ChatGPT training includes data acquisition, iterative adjustments, and reinforcement learning with human feedback, which is similar to shared and repetitive reading techniques used by parents. It was found that in both AI models and children's learning, the integration of new information into pre-existing networks is crucial for long-term retention and understanding. Discussion: The results show that the learning techniques used in ChatGPT can offer valuable strategies for early childhood education. Repetition and feedback are essential in both contexts, although there are significant differences, such as the lack of awareness in AI models. Conclusions: ChatGPT training methodologies and children's educational strategies share essential principles. However, the intrinsic differences between artificial intelligence and natural intelligence are not negligible.

 

 

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Author Biography

Joaquim Valls Morató, Euncet Business School

Economist, Master in Information and Knowledge Society, and Master in Artificial Intelligence Applied to Business. He teaches Mathematics and Economics on the Bachelor's Degrees in Business Administration and Marketing and Digital Communication. He is the author of ten popular science books, including Genial mente: las claves de la inteligencia, el talento y la creatividad (2014), and the e-book Educada mente: Manual de Neuroeducación Positiva (2024).He is working on two lines of research (with five published articles and one accepted), both based on his doctoral thesis, which deals with the (re)education of the unconscious, in which he studies the education of the cognitive and emotional mathematical unconscious, and the education of the reading and spelling unconscious.

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2025-01-29

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Valls Morató, J. (2025). ChatGPT training, reading, critical thinking and creativity. European Public & Social Innovation Review, 10, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.31637/epsir-2025-1194

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