Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education again
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Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education again
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#4There has always been a split between students who are there to learn and those who are there to get a diploma. AI will simply make this divide wider. Students who actually want to acquire knowledge and skills will benefit enormously, while students who are trying to skate through with minimal effort will find themselves hitting the job market with literally no skills or knowledge beyond copying-and-pasting in and out of chat windows.
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#5>Picture this: You're a seventh-grade student who struggles to keep up in math. But now, you have an AI tutor like the one Sal describes by your side.
Picture this: You're a seventh-grade student who struggles to solve the equations in math. But now you have an AI that solves it for you.
I bet that there will be more students of the later type than the former.
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#6If you have some form of financial independence in your life, some form of the grid backup, you know what is all this about. Did you think the richest of the elite will give their kids this form of education? Seriously? My kids learn in a classical way. No aid, no electronic devices, no "modern" bullshit. Critical thinking is a must in a world of corporations greed and digital dystopia. The school mandatory program is just a form of training ground. They learn how to see the real problems around and how to adapt to ever-changing hypocrisy.
Never trusted a word coming from the corporate monster Microsoft. Never looked at Bill Gates as more than a greedy manipulator and sociopath.
Downvotes don't change the reality:)
Re: Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education again
#7I'm as excited about the potential as anyone. I would love to give my child an AI tutor like The Primer.
But nothing like that exists today, as far as I know. I was disappointed with Khanmigo when I tried it back in August. Although I have a year's subscription to it, I've not asked my child to try it. It seemed too boring and told me my answer (to a problem it had given me) was wrong, even though I was right.
I'm optimistic, but I think there's work to do. I've not seen an AI system that can apply the pedagogy of George Polya: give the student a small hint by asking a question that could have occured to the student themselves.
Re: Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education again
#8>Picture this: You're a seventh-grade student who struggles to keep up in math. But now, you have an AI tutor like the one Sal describes by your side. Picture this: You're a seventh-grade student who struggles to solve the equations in math. But now you have an AI that solves it for you. I bet that there will be more students of the later type than the former.
I have coworkers who already stop to type things into a GPT before using any part of their mind to think about things. At this point I assume its inevitable that for large segments of people, who are not actively trying to maintain the independence of their mind, will allow these computers to do their thinking and decision making for them.
Re: Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education again
#9>Picture this: You're a seventh-grade student who struggles to keep up in math. But now, you have an AI tutor like the one Sal describes by your side. Picture this: You're a seventh-grade student who struggles to solve the equations in math. But now you have an AI that solves it for you. I bet that there will be more students of the later type than the former.
> But now you have an AI that solves it for you.
and then the AI explains how it was solved, step by step. You can repeatedly ask it to clarify, and it has endless patience and won't get bored or sick of you.
Eventually, you understand how the equation is solved. No human teacher would be able to achieve this.
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#10Your country isn’t eligible right now.
At this time, only people who live in the United States are eligible to use Khanmigo.