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ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

That sounds like a way to make a generation of students wholly reliant on AI. People are going to still need to know how to do stuff in the future and not just how to request the answers to things from somewhere else.

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ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
(Disclaimer: this is not a fully formed counter-argument to your statement, merely my thought-vomit).

As a kid growing up in the 90’s you wouldn’t believe the amount of times my parents and teachers vehemently insisted to me that I MUST do dictionary lookup drills because there’s no way I would just always have access to an electronic dictionary in my pocket. I was also told that I absolutely HAD to be fast at paper-based multiplication and long division. It’s not like I would just carry a calculator around with me everywhere I go, that would be insane!

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- Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Knowing how to use a physical dictionary or do basic math in your head is absolutely still a good idea, your phone battery can die, your network connection can fail, and doing challenging things with your brain is good for your long term brain health anyway especially while it’s still developing.
  
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  - tamal3@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Maybe, but are there other things we can focus on? For example, as an ESL teacher, why do my newcomers only get a word to word paper dictionary on end of grade exams? I’m pretty sure the state of North Carolina just hates children? There’s literally no reason for this. Give them a digital dictionary.
    
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    Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Paper is a renewable resource, rare metals used in computers aren’t, and the contents of the dictionary will be the same either way
    
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    OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Is it a time problem?
    
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Zexks@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
You sound like my teachers that bitched about calculators and the internet.

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- ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  I guess if Big Calculator was lobbying for children to no longer be taught any maths but for calculators to ask other calculators questions and have the student move answers between them.
  
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