Exploration of ChatGPT in basic education - Advantages, disadvantages, and its impact on school tasks

Oct 15, 2026

The introduction of ChatGPT into basic education is progressing rapidly, generating impacts that, in many cases, are unknown. Its capability to produce coherent, contextual, human-like text positions it as a tool that may transform teaching and learning while creating new gaps that require evaluation. The research explores advantages, disadvantages, and effects on school tasks through an exploratory qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with 110 participants from five schools in Tacna, Peru. Results show fast access to varied information and pedagogical strategies, plus noted risks such as copying, academic dependence, cheating, and reduced educational usefulness.

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Introduction

ChatGPT and its role in basic education

School tasks and learning assessment

Opportunities and risks of ChatGPT use

Institutional responses and ethical concerns

OPEN ACCESS Research Article Contemporary Educational Technology, 2024, 16(3), ep511 ISSN: 1309-517X (Online) Exploration of ChatGPT in basic education: Advantages, disadvantages, and its impact on school tasks Raúl Alberto Garcia Castro 1* 0000-0003-1875-6917 Nikole Alexandra Mayta Cachicatari 1 0000-0001-7667-1669 Willian Máximo Bartesaghi Aste 1 0000-0003-4978-4494 Martín Pedro Llapa Medina 1 0000-0002-2918-8233 1 Universidad Nacional Jorge Basadre Grohmann, Tacna, PERU * Corresponding author: [rgarciac@unjbg.edu.pe](rgarciac@unjbg.edu.pe) Citation: Garcia Castro, R. A., Mayta Cachicatari, N. A., Bartesaghi Aste, W. M., & Llapa Medina, M. P. (2024) . Exploration of ChatGPT in basic education: Advantages, disadvantages, and its impact on school tasks. Contemporary Educational Technology, 16(3), ep511. [https://doi.org/10.30935/cedtech/14615](https://doi.org/10.30935/cedtech/14615) ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT | Received: 2 Feb 2024
Accepted: 2 May 2024 | The introduction of ChatGPT into basic education is progressing rapidly, generating impacts that, in many cases, are unknown. Its impressive capability profiles it as a tool that will revolutionize teaching and learning processes, creating gaps that need to be understood and evaluated. The research aims to explore the advantages, disadvantages, and its impact on school tasks. It is an exploratory qualitative study; data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 110 participants from five schools in Tacna, Peru. The results reveal that ChatGPT provides information quickly and easily, with a variety of content and pedagogical strategies. Additionally, it serves for evaluation, knowledge consultation, and scheduling school tasks. Eight related disadvantages were identified: Easy access to information may encourage the habit of copying and pasting, fostering academic dependence that would affect the development of skills, such as inquiry, argumentation, analysis, and critical thinking. Also, students may misuse information, cheating on school tasks and affecting their quality and suitability, making them no longer useful for education, including synthesis, essays, monographs, organizers, summaries, and mathematical exercises.
Keywords: ChatGPT, advantages, disadvantages, school tasks, basic education | | --- | --- | | INTRODUCTION | | Basic education is crucial for individual development, providing us with knowledge and skills for success in society and active citizenship. Among them, school assignments are essential in the learning process (Kukliansky et al., 2016), also to assess students’ understanding, foster critical and analytical skills, which facilitates said process (Cooper, 2007; Meng-Chun et al., 2020) . These consist of completing assigned tasks either at home or in a location other than the school (Hong et al., 2004; Roderique et al., 1994) . However, the introduction of artificial intelligence in the educational field through its various applications, such as ChatGPT, is bringing about significant changes in teaching processes. These changes involve innovations that require aredefinition in the way learning processes are approached (Javaid et al., 2023) . AI has advanced by leaps and bounds and has established itself as a multidisciplinary field seeking to develop systems capable of performing tasks that require human intelligence, increasingly complex and challenging (Barredo et al., 2020; Miller, 2019) . In this way, ChatGPT is based on language models that allow the generation of coherent, contextual, and human-like text. Its ability to understand and provide information has sparked growing interest in education (Alser & Waisbergb, 2023) . It is identified as a form of generative AI due to its ability to produce original results with ease; through questions, it can provide information and even an opinion. Its inevitable presence in education confronts us with a phenomenon that requires investigation to und

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What is the goal of the study on ChatGPT in basic education?

The study aims to explore ChatGPT’s advantages, disadvantages, and its impact on school tasks through an exploratory qualitative approach.

How was the research conducted and who participated?

Data were collected via semi-structured interviews with 110 participants from five schools in Tacna, Peru.

What advantages of ChatGPT were identified for school tasks?

ChatGPT was found to provide information quickly and easily, offering varied content and pedagogical strategies, and it can support evaluation, knowledge consultation, and scheduling tasks.

Oct 15, 2026

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