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Re: Microsoft, Khan Academy Partner to Make Khanmigo Teaching Tool Free

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>We don't expect the most of our teachers, nor do we effectively compensate them for such an important role, If the government spent a fraction of the money tech is using to hype up LLMs on compensating teachers, we wouldnt have this mindset. We shouldn't have such thoughts of "we don't expect the most of our techaers" to begin with. Paying teachers more is a lot easier than solving hallucinations (as you probably sa…

Teachers should be compensated as much as doctors and held to the same academic rigor, but then we'd run up against the rude reality that those of us who are well off tend to hate the idea of paying for such a feature e.g through taxes. Grants got me through school, so I'm content being taxed up the nose. But I'm an outlier in my tax bracket for that opinion.

I'm another outlier too. If I had to choose between proper public school resources and privately schooling my child, I'd do the former 100%. Not everyone has the funding to do the latter, and public schooling shouldn't be a "punishment" for being poor (I was raised in public schools. Albeit my closest high school was a charter school, so there's quirks I admittedly dodged around ).

But yeah, "individualism culture".

Re: Microsoft, Khan Academy Partner to Make Khanmigo Teaching Tool Free

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Let me tell you as a parent I want no part of this AI garbage in the classroom. Its just an excuse to burn money the district does not have on software they dont need and that does not work. Id way rather our school district bought an Xtramath account and taught the kids math facts in a simple way than waste money on AI that does not work or feeds misinformation.

If your baseline is Xtramath - when did you last try to use chatgpt to solve problems at that level? Certainly seems like they work

Its because the problem you need to solve isnt that hard and already solved, it does not need to have a crazy complex novel solution. . All you have to do is present the problem and solution set. xtra math isnt some sort of complex system and it does not need to be, its stupid simple and does the thing its supposed to do.
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