There are increasing concerns about how children's use of AI tools for homework, translations, and word meanings may impact their capacity to comprehend what they read, expand their vocabulary, and speak confidently.
Even while AI can facilitate learning, kids still need to learn how to comprehend information and think independently.
We talk to Dariol Wicomb, Oxford University Press's dictionaries publisher, ahead of International Dictionary Day on October 16.
Southern Africa, regarding how AI affects kids' language development and how parents may help their kids learn to read in the digital age.