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What a useless article. The hot take is buried way down near the bottom: “books are so incomplete and broken they might fundamentally damage the way young chil
by KMnO4 3y ago
What a useless article. The hot take is buried way down near the bottom:
“books are so incomplete and broken they might fundamentally damage the way young children acquire reading skills.”
Then, it’s not backed up with any sources indicating this may be true.
The reality is that it’s not. Children don’t need highly developed story arcs, or plot twists, or realistic depictions of life.
Ultimately, the goal of learning to read is 1) understand how letters form words, 2) understand how words form sentences, 3) understand sentence structure and context, 4) understand how sentences form a story.
AI is perfect for that. I highly encourage the author to take an hour out of their life and try to learn a language. You don’t learn Spanish by immediately starting at the Spanish translation of The Odyssey. You learn with stupid little phrases like “The cow is eating ice cream”.
So maybe go ahead and write your next article about how Duolingo is damaging people’s ability to learn languages. It will hold as much water as this one does.
- headcanon 3y agoThat is such a reductionist view on children's books. Children's books serve many other purposes: - Learning language structure and storytelling organization, as you say. - Learning about the world around them. Even fictional books help with that. - Imprinting cultural values and morals. - Activating the child's imagination, and sparking their curiosity about the world around them. Good children's books can hit most or even all of these points. What they read about and the pictures they see are just as impactful to them as the language learned.
- tmaly 3y agoI thought the hot take was that this method could be used to push ideologies.