Figure 2
The diagram illustrates the opportunities and risks of student-facing conversational AI in primary classrooms. It highlights opportunities such as enhancing differentiated learning, supporting self-directed inquiry, assisting writing and editing skills, reducing teacher workload, and exploring pedagogical potential. Risks and concerns include developmental risks, pedagogical concerns, ethical and societal issues, and policy and curriculum misalignment. The diagram shows interconnected relationships between these opportunities and risks, indicating how they influence each other in classroom contexts.Opportunities, risks and their interconnected relations of student-facing AI in primary classrooms. Source: Authors’ conceptualisation based on literature synthesis