Large language models do are no “A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer” they are stochastic parrots and don’t even parrot facts reliably. I teach 3rd, 4th, and 5th

Large language models do are no “A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer” they are stochastic parrots and don’t even parrot facts reliably. I teach 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade kids to code. Mostly code.org does the work of introducing code through play but the value of the teacher is in classroom management. Specific to programming, the value I bring is debugging experience and empathy. Instead of saying “you fix your problem like this” I focus on trying to understand/empathize with why the problem was made to begin with and then using that info to guide them to the correct fix.