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> Except that if a student wants to learn without using them My son, who is a freshman at a major university in NYC, when he said to his freshman English profe
by technothrasher 7mo ago
> Except that if a student wants to learn without using them
My son, who is a freshman at a major university in NYC, when he said to his freshman English professor that he wanted to write his papers without using AI, was told that this was "too advanced for a freshman English class" and that using AI was a requirement.
- senordevnyc 7mo agoNow colleges will have to try and detect if you didn't use AI!
- tdeck 7mo agoI don't understand what they think it is they're teaching? Will we teach kids to "read" by taking a photo of their bedtime story and hitting a button next?
- Izkata 7mo agoI'm afraid you're decades late for something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_language One of the teaching methods is "look at the context, like pictures, and guess what the word is". One example I remember was thinking "pony" is "horse" due to association without being able to sound it out.