[flagged]
Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
541–550 of 629 posts
Re: Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
#542Earlier quoted context omitted.
The counterargument is that kids will live in a world different from our own. For example, in many countries children lost the ability to write cursive; that used to be a critical skill comparable to literacy itself. But in our current society, that's no longer the case and you can be very successful without it, but there are other skills, such as using technology, that became critical. Any definitive claim to know w…
From a UK perspective it's very weird that kids in America don't learn to write joined-up. How can you write sufficiently fast in an English or History exam (where you have to write a whole essay in limited time) if you're writing one letter at a time like a 6 year old?
I went to school in two different countries where I was taught/required to write joined-up, but I was never actually taught to write it quickly, only "correctly". I was (and of course still am) much faster at writing in block letters, so I'd draft my essays in block writing, then re-write it in joined-up to hand it in.
Re: Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
#543It is wrong to think kids should not use AI. They actually need to use AI the most.
Childhood is the age when you constantly ask “why” until you get to the bottom of the problem. It is the age of enormous curiosity. But schools, teachers, and parents do not have enough time or knowledge to answer every single “why.”
AI is here to stay, and I believe the future of AI is education.
But that also means we need to change how we test students. We should bring back more oral exams and in-person writing exams. But to learn things please use AI.
Re: Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
#544Re: Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
#545Re: Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
#546Re: Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
#547The fundemental problem is motivation not AI and this is simply the result of a larger societal shift that happened to correlate with the advent of AI. Personally I've never done any homework or assignments, when I was outside school it was over. However, this motivated me to do really well in tests which in-turn made me extremely active during the limited time I had in school and I became pretty damn efficient at ab…
> I will recognize that I am a bit special Should have started with that. No, your experience doesn't easily translate into some general good advice, you are probably way-above-average bright. I for example went through old school education with tons of home work and benefited greatly from having enough time to comprehend harder topics more deeply, without rush. Memorizing is another aspect, my mind is slow in that s…
I highly doubt that I am special in a way where I have a "smarter" brain. I believe that I simply adapted to learning fast. I was a slow learner and by grades were awful until around 7th grade where I've started to catch up and perform really well in school.
But what you said about homework IS motivation, self-discipline IS motivation. I had zero issues digging into whatever I can find to improve at programming and grasp concepts far beyond what I would be learning at my age. I started programming at the age of 12 which I believe also manifested in the ability to do much better in school.
Re: Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
#548Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Kids can read, write, and comprehend text at 8 A sizable portion of the US adult population effectively can't read, write and comprehend text. https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/2023/national_results.asp for 2023: > Between 2017 and 2023, there were increases in the percentages of adults performing at the lowest proficiency level (Level 1 or below) in both literacy and numeracy: in literacy this percentage increased…
[flagged]
I appreciate the replies that just drive home how correct the observation is. Some of you hate the US, I get it. Some of you are probably bots or shills doing it for compensation. Some are just parrots. Some are actually in the US, of course, there's no loathing like self-loathing.
Re: Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
#549Earlier quoted context omitted.
Totally agree! For anyone who still thinks kids should use AI, another argument to make is we are still figuring out AI (hence the constant debate on it, hype, uncertainty, boundaries of its capabilities etc etc). I don't think anyone with right mind can disagree with that. Keeping that mind, wouldn't it make sense to at-the-very-least tread with caution when it comes to kids.
The counterargument is that kids will live in a world different from our own. For example, in many countries children lost the ability to write cursive; that used to be a critical skill comparable to literacy itself. But in our current society, that's no longer the case and you can be very successful without it, but there are other skills, such as using technology, that became critical. Any definitive claim to know w…
[deleted]
Re: Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
#550Earlier quoted context omitted.
11 year olds don’t want to go to school.
What is your point? Are you going to subject your parenting to their whims or are you going to be an adult and discipline them into doing what is right for them? Granted, an 11-year old who doesn't want to go to school is already symptomatic of many years of failure of parenting, but 11 is such a young age and there's certainly plenty of room to stimulate their curiosity. What kind of an adult would deliberately rais…
lol how many kids do you have?