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Metaphorical perceptions of secondary school students regarding the concept of generative artificial intelligence
Originally published 2026-05-02 · European Journal of Pediatrics
Springer Science and Business Media LLC · DOI 10.1007/s00431-026-07007-0 ↗
AI / system type
Generative AI/LLM; qualitative perception study
Child-facing evidenceExamines children or child-focused systems. Transfer to everyday family life must be assessed separately.
The AI connection
Analyzes how secondary-school students conceptualize GenAI such as ChatGPT.
Why this reading matters
Offers an accessible starting point for family conversations grounded in adolescents’ own language.
Editorial reading guide · Independence
When my teenager calls AI a brain or encyclopedia, what do they think it can actually do?
Maps to Independence through eliciting adolescents’ own mental models of GenAI rather than presuming what they understand.
Study context
332 volunteer students from four secondary schools in Artvin, Türkiye
Age / stage: 14–18 years
Read with three questions
- Which metaphors portray AI as a tool and which as an authority?
- How do students describe benefits and overreliance risks?
- What cannot a single metaphor prompt tell us about actual literacy?
Keep the limits in view
Convenience sample in one region and one prompt; perceptions are not performance tests, behavior observations or causal outcomes.
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Özkan Özbay (2026). Metaphorical perceptions of secondary school students regarding the concept of generative artificial intelligence European Journal of Pediatrics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-026-07007-0
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