I was nodding along in the introduction, rolling my eyes in cognitive artifacts, and sighing in the conclusion. It seems like math educators still loathe stude

I was nodding along in the introduction, rolling my eyes in cognitive artifacts, and sighing in the conclusion. It seems like math educators still loathe students use calculators, and I find the reasoning has major blindspots. Competitive artifacts abound in society, and we are better for it. If I am in a situation where I do not have immediate access to a calculator, I am not in a situation where I need to do quick math. In 20 years, if we're still asking what year WW1 started on history tests, then we utterly failed. We absolutely need to find a way to teach programming in a world of AI. We also need to find a way to teach art in a world of AI. We'll need to find a way to teach everything in a world of AI. What we don't need to hold onto is this mistaken belief that we need to somehow teach people how to get by without it. It's like telling someone they need to learn all of a python framework before they're allowed to use it...utterly defeats the point of its existence.