> is that with the recent explosion of Large Language Models and their inevitable rapid evolution, that to me it's pretty clear education needs to go down the path of AI-based, automatically customized and tuned and guided, computer based education for primary students
Do you mind expanding on why that's clear? At even a first pass by ignoring the "AI" part and focusing on the computer-based approach, it is known and has been shown that screens are detrimental to cognitive development. As in detrimental to brain development and processes, not just learning.
> We're right around the corner from AI automatically generating highly interactive learning courses for children, that will fundamentally reshape the notion of classroom-based education.
How is it going to do this any better than humans? Part of the existing problem is that teachers can teach incorrect information. (I know your wife is a teacher. My mom was a teacher.) With auto-generated learning, what will be the check that the information is correct, following guidelines, not introducing biases and -isms, and not breaking laws and regulations? And I see this approach as doubling down on treating kids as automatons rather than teaching them critical and creative thinking.
The problems with education are multifaceted. Teachers are underpaid and overly managed with managed and standardized curriculums. Families do not have the proper support structures. Thus, schools are babysitters and sources of food for many. Social media is amplifying the worst parts of humanity and eating society from the inside out. We have an extremist/terrorist party insistent on not properly finding education and social support structures and destroying human rights.
It's unfathomable to me how machine learning based, auto-generated content somehow "solves" education without addressing these problems.
I think any parent should immediately withdraw their kid from a school that adopts these "AI". We can already see failures of forced technology in schools, such as PowerPoint and Chromebooks in schools. The myopic forcing of teachers to use PowerPoint was one of the many things that made my mom retire early from teaching.
Do you mind expanding on why that's clear? At even a first pass by ignoring the "AI" part and focusing on the computer-based approach, it is known and has been shown that screens are detrimental to cognitive development. As in detrimental to brain development and processes, not just learning.
> We're right around the corner from AI automatically generating highly interactive learning courses for children, that will fundamentally reshape the notion of classroom-based education.
How is it going to do this any better than humans? Part of the existing problem is that teachers can teach incorrect information. (I know your wife is a teacher. My mom was a teacher.) With auto-generated learning, what will be the check that the information is correct, following guidelines, not introducing biases and -isms, and not breaking laws and regulations? And I see this approach as doubling down on treating kids as automatons rather than teaching them critical and creative thinking.
The problems with education are multifaceted. Teachers are underpaid and overly managed with managed and standardized curriculums. Families do not have the proper support structures. Thus, schools are babysitters and sources of food for many. Social media is amplifying the worst parts of humanity and eating society from the inside out. We have an extremist/terrorist party insistent on not properly finding education and social support structures and destroying human rights.
It's unfathomable to me how machine learning based, auto-generated content somehow "solves" education without addressing these problems.
I think any parent should immediately withdraw their kid from a school that adopts these "AI". We can already see failures of forced technology in schools, such as PowerPoint and Chromebooks in schools. The myopic forcing of teachers to use PowerPoint was one of the many things that made my mom retire early from teaching.