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You mean chatgpt style AI won't help them with those skills? If a human parent or teacher can help with skills like reading, an AI system can too, once it's tr
by ddp26 4mo ago
You mean chatgpt style AI won't help them with those skills?
If a human parent or teacher can help with skills like reading, an AI system can too, once it's trained and designed to do so. (How good are humans at teaching reading anyway?)
- stackghost 4mo ago>How good are humans at teaching reading anyway? Writing developed thousands of years BCE. So, considering we as a species have been successfully teaching our offspring how to read for hundreds of generations, I'd say we're probably pretty decent at it.
- bcrosby95 4mo agoIt's funny how people let cultural narratives get in the way of actual analysis. I think some of it is modern convenience has made us intolerant of any imperfection then they label even minor imperfections as a catastrophe.
- wseqyrku 4mo agoThey need those skills to be able to communicate with others, not to .. research?
- basch 4mo agoand with a structured tool, what better place to practice writing, process, iteration, revision, editing. this happens constantly, every day. a current implementation of a technology isnt optimal so the entire class of anything related to that technology is treated as equally flawed. the solution here is better tools, not preventing better tools from being created.
- ilovecake1984 4mo agoSounds dystopian. What kids need to learn to read is an adult to engage with them, listen to how they read and engage them on the contents of the book.
- ekjhgkejhgk 4mo agoLOL
- raincole 4mo agoYeah, it baffles me that the sentiment here is that AI can only hurt kids' reading ability, when AI (in the form of a chatbot) is practically a tool that forces its users to read a lot. I still support for some sort of AI restriction for kids, though, since school is a place for kids to socializing. It's a more aspect important than reading and writing.
- simonw 4mo agoNot if they turn on voice mode, which is pretty excellent these days (at least in ChatGPT and Gemini.)
- raincole 4mo agoI do 100% support banning voice mode for school. (Again mostly for the socializing... or anti-socializing aspect.)
- chalupa-supreme 4mo agoWe need to remember there are going to be human admin tasks that still need human interaction and critical thought into what you read and write. Adult users of these tools already accept AI outputs without too much thought in varying scenarios. As a child, your willingness to question a tool that’s already better then you at most tasks probably isn’t going too high, and if you go through early education without exercising critical thinking… well we can point to cursive reading/writing as an example of a skill that completely disappears from a generation when not practiced enough.
- sillysaurusx 4mo agoGood. My 4th grade cursive writing was a waste of time. Studying anything else would have been more beneficial.
- tacomagick 4mo ago