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Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI

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Re: Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI

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LLMs are great for learning, I am using them regularly for that purpose. I am skeptical about the images though, those usually turn out not very good, especially when understanding often hinges on details.

What I find curious is why there is no emphasis on asking questions. This is the single greatest benefit that I have found, giving examples or clarification is, in my experience, very helpful to learn any subject.

Re: Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI

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I’m not sure this approach is the right one, but the problem resonates with me. I vividly remember hitting some blocker (7th grade chem, 4th grade reading, 2nd grade dinosaurs), where I had a question that the teacher dismissed. My mind was stuck (blocked) as it couldn’t get past the question I had, and in a public school setting, it wasn’t worth the time for the teacher to dive down the tangent (or they simply weren…

That book was great on the second read-through.

Re: Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI

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I wish instead Google would instead find a good way to have exercise books, with: 1) well-thought out exercises (covering all cases, whether in math or Spanish) 2) CORRECT solutions (just saying because even ChatGPT gets it wrong even for high school math) 3) that you can enter them using pen (if need be on an iPad) Just a way to make zillions of exercises if I want to. And for my kids, the problem is these days teac…

have you tried out lytris.com for math?
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