Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System

• Eggyhead@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I had the class build a database of ideas, but one I really liked went like this:

  You put a bunch of quiz questions into an AI song generator. The students listen to the song and try to provide the answers afterward.

  You can make it really stupid and funny if you want.

  Another would be to have AI produce a “podcast” about some topic, maybe Elvis interviewing Churchill about who Darwin was. Tell it to use some key points you want the students to take note of, then let them hear it and talk about it afterward.

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sounds like very inventive ways to include AI in teaching and make it fun and interactive.

    How are you modifying what you teach? Wikipedia reduced the focus on learning facts, what does AI remove from the syllabus? What areas should be strengthened to leverage AI?

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    • Eggyhead@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well in my case, I leverage AI to extract specifics in long texts, such as level-appropriate vocabulary and collocations related to the topic. I can do this with YouTube video transcripts, for example,then use a different tool to quickly spit out learners definitions of all the words extracted, example sentences with fill-in-the blanks (emphasis on the topic of the lesson), and whatnot. I have to verify that the definitions and example sentences are suitable, then I slap everything together in a handout template I have in Affinity Publisher, along with some topic-related discussion questions. The students watch the video, and then I give them the handout afterwards.

      That’s just one example.

      I know of a company producing experimental AI tests, that basically put you in a D&D role playing scenario. It shows a scenario on screen, narrates a situation, then asks you to respond. Based on your response it’ll take you in one direction or another, the whole time grading your skills behind the scene. The students don’t even know they’re being tested. At the end, it prints out a score, but it feels more like the end of a video game match than a test.

      I think that’s cool af.

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      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We are certainly entering the young lady’s illustrated primer stage of education.

        A physics accurate D&D where you play as macgyver could be really cool.

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