Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests

why is this surprising. all such tools hamper learning. if you want to learn, read books, read and write. don't use a spellchecker for ur language exam. no calculator for calculus. pen and paper. how is this going backwards :(

Re: Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests

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Post by lll-o-lll » Thu, Sep 05, 2024, 4:27 AM UTC

When I was young, and learning math, my father always forbade me from looking at the answer in the back of the textbook. “You don’t work backwards from the answer!”, and I think this is right.

In life, we rarely have the answer in front of us, we have to work that out from the things we know. It’s this struggling that builds a muscle you can then apply to any problem. ChatGPT, I suspect, is akin to looking up the answer. You’re failing to exercise the muscle needed to solve novel (to you), problems.

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Post by ggm » Thu, Sep 05, 2024, 4:27 AM UTC

I was willing to entertain the idea they could do better. I guess the tests have to be written to leverage the skill.

That said, all things being equal kids who write notes by hand out-perform kids who type them. Even touch type them. So maybe the old ways are better in this specific brain-knowledge-competency-understanding forming space?

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Post by thatkid02 » Thu, Sep 05, 2024, 4:27 AM UTC

its like gulping food; one has to chew. Time to learn how to educate when knowledge is at your fingertips.

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Post by ggm » Thu, Sep 05, 2024, 4:27 AM UTC

wiradikusuma wrote: post #3

Kids who have their parents do their homework do worse on tests. s/parents/chatgpt

"I blame the parents" s/parents/chatgpt/

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 05, 2024, 4:28 AM UTC

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Post by vsuperpower2021 » Thu, Sep 05, 2024, 4:29 AM UTC

wiradikusuma wrote: post #3

Kids who have their parents do their homework do worse on tests. s/parents/chatgpt

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