A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom
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#3i get it, but i also think about all the useful things i could have been doing (perhaps now assisted by AI) instead of pounding through Algebra homework and English essays all night...
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#4What are we going to do to solve this?
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#5I recently found out that my nephew's school had no take-home homework before high school, instead having kids complete assignments during class time. At first, I was flabbergasted that they would deny kids the discipline building of managing unstructured time without direct supervision. Homework- at home- seemed like such a fundamental part of the schooling experience.
Now, I'm thinking that was pretty much they only way they could think of to ensure kids were doing things themselves.
I know it was a rough transition for my nephew, though, and I don't know that I would have handled it very well either. I'm not sure what would be a better option, though, given how much of a disservice such easy access to a mental crutch is.
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#6Maybe they can allow AI for writing but raise the bar on quality so the blind copy-paste submissions still fail. I've still never read a good AI-generated doc at work, it's always verbose and aimless. At this point I close the doc if I catch a whiff. Unlike the AI code which is fine.
It's probably either that or ban it and do everything in-person, which might have to be the stopgap solution.
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#7i get it, but i also think about all the useful things i could have been doing (perhaps now assisted by AI) instead of pounding through Algebra homework and English essays all night...
This is a ludicrous take. You of course have to have a basic understanding of the world to know what to do. Otherwise you're just floating along in some sort of solipsistic fog. Your brain came built in with amazing capacity to learn but you have to actually... Learn some stuff
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#9I recently found out that my nephew's school had no take-home homework before high school, instead having kids complete assignments during class time. At first, I was flabbergasted that they would deny kids the discipline building of managing unstructured time without direct supervision. Homework- at home- seemed like such a fundamental part of the schooling experience. Now, I'm thinking that was pretty much they onl…
I’ve seen a similar change but didn’t realize this, makes sense.
Combined with a complete lack of textbooks, college is going to be quite a surprise!!
Oddly, English teachers tell students to use Grammerly and standardized tests use AI for grading student essays.
For writing assignments, students are given a “prompt”. Never heard it called such in my schooling…
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