A lot of those were definitely sponsored by MS and co as well, but at least you did learn a practical, transferable, morph-able skill. You'll come out of that with experience using the features and structures of a general purpose OS, as well as the workflow of mode-base production software (in some cases). Excel at least is also just such a powerful 'everything' tool that I'm not even that mad about it.

'AI Literacy' is just very much not that at all and is just state-mandated brain rot.

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HeWhoLurksLate 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I was started on learning how to make PowerPoint presentations and present them in kindergarten, and I'm incredibly thankful for that. More broadly, building a slide deck is a critical part of public speaking and presenting and helps kids out a lot.

In third grade I got taught how to type properly and hit 60-70 WPM, which is roughly where I still type to this day when doing tasks that require thinking instead of just doing a pre-compiled speed benchmark.

Kids really need to learn the fundamentals of things, but on the other hand some of the same arguments came out when calculators were going mainstream and classes just evolved to take the new tools into account. I think eventually we'll see the same thing happen with AI, but I'm not sure what that will look like for every case yet. Probably more paper and pencil work tbh

	▲	strange_quark 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I hate the calculator argument. Kids still need to learn how to do basic arithmetic by hand. There's a reason that CAS calculators are banned on standardized tests. Even in college, I had classes where profs would force us to do complex calculus by hand even though Mathematica could spit out the answer. Understanding things from first principles is important, and probably even more so with AI!

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maniiijiii 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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