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It wasn't much different when my kids were in high school.
The 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."
Ironically if I had listened to my teachers more I wouldn't be peck typing as a programmer and my penmanship would be more like cursive than the chicken scratch that I currently write.
The 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."
LLMs are to english class as a car would be to running class. Yes, the tool exists and is useful but it prevents you from getting the intended benefit.
Because without that context, I'd assume "harm" here is mostly qualified as "how I used to teach doesn't work any more". Not that that's invalid criticism, but it's very different from "harms education outcomes"
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The 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."
I get you're going for the "AI is a tool" thing, but the problem with your analogy is that LLMs hallucinate and many students use them in lieu of doing reading and reasoning about the content. LLMs are to english class as a car would be to running class. Yes, the tool exists and is useful but it prevents you from getting the intended benefit.
Damn. Only 1 in 4 U.S. Teachers Say AI Tools Do More Harm Than Good in K-12 Education? Better than expected
Now, it is so much easier to teach programming… data analysis… design… all things that k12 is normally terrible at teaching.
Around here the school budgets are absolutely massive (in the hundreds of millions of dollars for a village), and if I were getting such free money, I would say anything to keep it flowing.
Educational software has always been an abyss. While in college, my summer internships (early 1980s) were at an educational computer facility. They had a "lab" with a variety of available computers and software for teachers to try out. Virtually all of it was abysmal -- glorified flash cards. It wasn't much different when my kids were in high school.
My 1980s education technology was kick ass