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Meandering and muddled bit of content marketing here. For one, their self-placement at the top of the hierarchy of undisruptible learning tools is rich, especia
by elefanten 3y ago
Meandering and muddled bit of content marketing here. For one, their self-placement at the top of the hierarchy of undisruptible learning tools is rich, especially while dismissively putting Khan Academy at the bottom. KA isn’t “just” for rote memorization… it goes way up the pyramid with really deep and thoughtful instruction to foster understanding, application and analysis (at a minimum). I dont think this educational memegen product is doing as much heavy lifting as they want to believe.
But mainly, its central point that students should be critiquing and correcting AI output is only feasible if students have learned enough to effectively do so in the first place! So, yes, there are still appropriate concerns about students using ChatGPT to do their homework for them — if they do that upstream of having learned the subject matter, they’ll never have a chance to effectively learn from the methods endorsed here.