1970-01-01 an hour ago

Studies need to be done on how very terrible, bottom 5% of schools perform with all the extra AI help Google can enable. How could they possibly do worse with it running?

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ceejayoz an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> How could they possibly do worse with it running?

It's almost always possible to do worse.

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walt_grata an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

using AI to tell you the answer means you don't actually know or understand the answer. You know the entire point of education

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betterunix2 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

There are other ways to use AI in a school setting. Grading homework is a tedious and time-consuming task that would likely be simple for an AI to do.

	▲	MetalBreaksAndB 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		YMMV, but in my school, teachers can access AI while students (mostly) can't. It's possible to allow AI for teachers and not students.

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1970-01-01 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's certainly one outcome. Another is having AI tell you the answer and you understanding why your answer is incorrect. This is not black and white.

	▲	JumpCrisscross 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The current research outcomes seem pretty black and white.

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adrianN an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

You can also use AI s an endlessly patient tutor. That could be beneficial.

	▲	ceejayoz 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The real world seems like it might come as a shock to someone who learned for two decades from an endlessly patient computer.

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eesmith 32 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Some of the worst performance schools are cyber charter schools, which often promote the idea that they use AI as a personal tutor.

If they could get better results with off-the-shelf tools, I'm pretty sure they would.

(Not 100% sure. Some non-profit charters pay a for-profit management company, which suggests commercial software, where the charter, management company, and software provider are all owned by the same person. They may prefer to make more money than improve student grades.)