1 in 4 U.S. Teachers Say AI Tools Do More Harm Than Good in K-12 Education
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#2Damn. Only 1 in 4 U.S. Teachers Say AI Tools Do More Harm Than Good in K-12 Education? Better than expected
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#3Buried the lede. Most teachers are unsure.
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#4Only 1 out of 4?
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#5As someone working on an AI tool for education, I think it's going to be one of the hardest industries to get right, but also the most important.
- It's going to be tricky for AI tutors to make an impact. Teachers are better at inspiring students to do better than computers ever will be, but for those already motivated, AI will provide a great study tool.
- Students have access to LLMs as well now, so any writing assessment will have to be timed and closely monitored, or in-class, otherwise students can easily cheat.
- Teacher-facing tools will come before student-facing tools because of the safety aspect.
We're building an AI grading assistant for teachers (https://automark.io) that helps them provide more writing feedback to students. Papers are extremely time consuming to grade and give feedback on, which is detrimental to both the teacher and the student. Giving students unlimited practice essays before the scored essay is one area where AI will really move the needle.
Grading is also one of the main shortcomings of online courses, so I'm guessing we'll see more in that area in the future where high quality courses can scale to 10k-100k+ students.
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#7I thought all teenagers would be at 100% adoption of AI chat for homework and projects at this point.
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#8The only thing this shows is that the education system actively resists preparing students to succeed in a modern economy.
This is the modern equivalent of saying "keyboards hurt penmanship education."
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If you clicked on the article you'd see that only 6% said they think AI tools do more good than harm, it wasn't a binary choice.
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#10Unfortunately the Pandora's box has already been opened.., we are going to have to get better at thinking critically and judging evidence if we are to survive into in the sea of LLM generated content.