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1 in 4 U.S. Teachers Say AI Tools Do More Harm Than Good in K-12 Education

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Re: 1 in 4 U.S. Teachers Say AI Tools Do More Harm Than Good in K-12 Education

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At the moment, the real killer use-case for the current generation of AI agents (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT) is when you know you don't know something AND you have a specific task to get done. Some examples in past week: 1. Claude: "Why is this code failing typechecking in typescript" -> gives me detailed reasons why, teaches me about some things I didn't know about, and solves the problem for me while uplevelling my un…

> If a huge mechanism for assessing folks in education is "write an essay on this" and the teacher then "grades the essay output by the student," that's almost the perfect task where AI can do both ends. Which is pretty much a sign that assessments such as this have low educational impact.

Disagree here. AI can be (theoretically) trained to do any tasks with which it has an IO interface to perform the task. The same goes for humans, they can't inherently prove they "know" the information, they have to show it, via an IO interface (their hands/voice).

As such, any metric for proving human knowledge could be gamed by AI, assuming an environment where AI could be used (i.e. at home). The only places where AI can be controlled is in the classroom, like during exams or in-person activities.

So to conclude activity X has "low impact" because AI can do it, implies that all education at home has low impact, because AI could do it (through a human performing verbatim what it instructs, ignoring any explanation the AI might give).

Re: 1 in 4 U.S. Teachers Say AI Tools Do More Harm Than Good in K-12 Education

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

>We're building an AI grading assistant for teachers So students will be generating papers with AI and teachers grading them with AI? Maybe the real problem is education and teaching isn't innovating as fast as tech Can't remember where but saw a comic not too long ago when an employee uses AI to generate a long email and the recipient uses AI to summarize it

https://marketoonist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/230327.n...

Yup, that's the one
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