Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System
p3n@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is it really screwing up the education system, or is it just revealing how screwed up it already was?
The corrupt cheapskates trying to nickel and dime every ISD in the country to bankruptcy absolutely fell over one another at the opportunity to fire staff and replace them with Clippy.
Twenty years ago, state officials were all fawning over the idea of turning every university in the country into a pile subscription based Udemy online courses. Ten years ago, letting Pearson hijack the lesson plan of every classroom in the country was the dream. This has been a long time coming.
ISD
Imperial Star Destroyer?
Independent School District.
Although, given how my Houston ISD is being run after being hijacked by the state government…
Well, here’s how you figure that out - think about it with your brain. Should children and young adults be given materials and assignments that require them to use thinking and develop their brains, or should they be given machines to do their thinking for them so that it’s easier to complete schoolwork?
One route develops valuable brain skills that can be useful for life, and the other teaches dependency on fancy machines to accomplish the same.
kamen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Came here to say that. If AI has the leeway to affect things in negative way, then we’re not focusing on the right thongs to begin with. If kids are graded sometimes for the amount of (not necessarily coherent and sound) amount of text they’re able to spit out, this is what you get.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 23 hours ago
Not US but I still remember printing off a full page of text, teacher looked at it for less than 5 seconds before giving it a tick. This is all meaningless, no one is reading it, no one cares, nothing matters.
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I’ve definitely never only read halfway through a long comment and still upvoted
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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
I would have thought marking coursework has a higher standard than upvoting a lemmy post, but turns out it’s the other way around
kamen@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I’m not talking about the US specifically either. It’s a global problem.