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No this is not the way we want learning to be - just like how students are banned from using calculators until they have mastered the foundational thinking.
by jdjeeee 8mo ago
No this is not the way we want learning to be - just like how students are banned from using calculators until they have mastered the foundational thinking.
- stevofolife 8mo agoCalculator don't tell you step by step. AI can.
- simianparrot 8mo agoAnd it’s making that up as well.
- danaris 8mo agoYeah; it gets steps 1-3 right, 4-6 obviously wrong, and then 7-9 subtly wrong such that a student, who needs it step by step while learning, can't tell.
- sethops1 8mo agoSymbolic computation is a thing. How do you think wolfram alpha worked for 20 years before AI?
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- bheadmaster 8mo agoThat's a fair point, but AI can do much more than just provide you with an answer like a calculator. AI can explain the underlying process of manual computation and help you learn it. You can ask it questions when you're confused, and it will keep explaining no matter how off the topic you go. We don't consider tutoring bad for learning - quite the contrary, we tutor slower students to help them catch up, and advanced students to help them fulfill their potential. If we use AI as if it was an automated, tireless tutor, it may change learning for the better. Not like it was anywhere near great as it was.
- Arainach 8mo agoYou're assuming the students are reading any of this. They're not, they're just copy/pasting it.
- bheadmaster 8mo agoWell, you can lead the horse to water, but you can't make him drink. If you assume all students are lazy assholes who want to cheat the system, then I doubt there's anything that would help them learn.
- myko 8mo agoAlso so much of the LLMs answer is fluff, when not outright wrong
- graemep 8mo agoThere is research that shows that banning calculators impedes the learning of maths. It is certainly not obvious to me that calculators will have a negative effect - I certainly always allowed my kids to use them. LLMs are trickier and use needs to be restricted to stop cheating, just as my kids had restrictions on what calculators they could use in some exams. That does not mean they are all bad or even net bad if used correctly.
- lelanthran 8mo ago> There is research that shows that banning calculators impedes the learning of maths. I've seen oodles of research concluding the opposite at the primary level (grades 1- 5, say). If your mentioned research exists, it must be very well hidden :-/
- graemep 8mo agoThere were 79 studies used in this meta analysis so it cannot be that well hiddne: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1987-11739-001 https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1987-11739-001
- lelanthran 8mo ago> There were 79 studies used in this meta analysis so it cannot be that well hiddne: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1987-11739-001 https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1987-11739-001 From the first page of that study > Do calculators threaten basic skills? The answer consistently seemed to be no, provided those basic skills have first been developed with paper and pencil. So, yeah, there are no studies I have found that support any assertion along the lines of: >>> There is research that shows that banning calculators impedes the learning of maths. If you actually find any, we still have to consider that things like this meta-study you posted is already 74-studies ahead in confirming that you are wrong. Best would be for you to find 75 studies that confirm your hypothesis. Unfortunately, even though I read studies all the time, and even at one point had full access via institutional license to full-text of studies, and spent almost all of my after-hours time between 2009 and 2011 actually reading papers on primary/foundational education, I have not seen even one that supports your assertion. I have read well over a hundred papers on the subject, and did not find one. I am skeptical that you will find any.