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On Learning: My wife, a high school teacher, remarked to me the other day “you know, it’s sad that my new students aren’t going to be able to do any of the fun
by thadt 1y ago
On Learning:
My wife, a high school teacher, remarked to me the other day “you know, it’s sad that my new students aren’t going to be able to do any of the fun online exercises that I used to run.”
She’s all but entirely removed computers from her daily class workflow. Almost to a student, “research” has become “type it into Google and write down whatever the AI spits out at the top of the page” - no matter how much she admonishes them not to do it. We don’t even need to address what genAI does to their writing assignments. She says this is prevalent across the board, both in middle and high school. If educators don’t adapt rapidly, this is going to hit us hard and fast.
- MarkusQ 1y agoThat's because research had already become "look up the answer somebody else found" years ago. If you want to force they to do real research, ask them things no AI knows because no one knows. Ask them to find the exact center of the classroom. Or how many peas the cafeteria throws away each year, on average. Or any of a thousand other questions that no one knows the answer to.