This study examines the educational affordances and challenges of ChatGPT, providing a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature from November 2022 to August 2023. Using PRISMA principles, 44 articles were selected for review, revealing trends through grounded coding. Educators can use ChatGPT for teaching support, task automation, and professional development. Students can use it for 24/7 support, explaining difficult concepts, conversational partner, personalized feedback, writing support, self-assessment, engagement facilitation, and self-determination. However, the data also highlight limitations, including inaccuracies, hallucinations, potential bias, and tool limitations. Misuses such as plagiarism, cheating, privacy issues, and the spread of false information are also identified. The study serves as a foundation for understanding the current state of ChatGPT in education. ChatGPT, released in November 2022, is an AI tool that generates text and has been adopted across various sectors, including education. It can provide customized lesson plans, summarize text, and create test questions. However, it also poses risks, such as enabling cheating. The educational community needs to understand how ChatGPT can be used in this context. The study aims to examine early literature on ChatGPT to determine its potential for supporting learning and the associated misuses and limitations. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for over 60 years, with ChatGPT being a recent advancement in generative AI (GenAI). GenAI uses large datasets to create new content and has been applied in various fields, including drug development and chip design. ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, is based on GPT 3.5 and has been widely adopted for its language processing capabilities. It has been used in education for personalized learning, adaptive testing, and predictive analytics. However, concerns about plagiarism, bias, and equity persist. Extant literature on ChatGPT in education is limited, with most studies being preprints lacking peer review. The systematic review highlights the potential of ChatGPT in education while emphasizing the need for careful consideration of its limitations and misuses.This study examines the educational affordances and challenges of ChatGPT, providing a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature from November 2022 to August 2023. Using PRISMA principles, 44 articles were selected for review, revealing trends through grounded coding. Educators can use ChatGPT for teaching support, task automation, and professional development. Students can use it for 24/7 support, explaining difficult concepts, conversational partner, personalized feedback, writing support, self-assessment, engagement facilitation, and self-determination. However, the data also highlight limitations, including inaccuracies, hallucinations, potential bias, and tool limitations. Misuses such as plagiarism, cheating, privacy issues, and the spread of false information are also identified. The study serves as a foundation for understanding the current state of ChatGPT in education. ChatGPT, released in November 2022, is an AI tool that generates text and has been adopted across various sectors, including education. It can provide customized lesson plans, summarize text, and create test questions. However, it also poses risks, such as enabling cheating. The educational community needs to understand how ChatGPT can be used in this context. The study aims to examine early literature on ChatGPT to determine its potential for supporting learning and the associated misuses and limitations. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for over 60 years, with ChatGPT being a recent advancement in generative AI (GenAI). GenAI uses large datasets to create new content and has been applied in various fields, including drug development and chip design. ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, is based on GPT 3.5 and has been widely adopted for its language processing capabilities. It has been used in education for personalized learning, adaptive testing, and predictive analytics. However, concerns about plagiarism, bias, and equity persist. Extant literature on ChatGPT in education is limited, with most studies being preprints lacking peer review. The systematic review highlights the potential of ChatGPT in education while emphasizing the need for careful consideration of its limitations and misuses.