Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom

ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• anzo@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This. (Offline too.)

  Which generation did we really taught critical thinking to? In general, those “thinkers” or people with nice research skills (e.g. reading comprehension and other traits) were always a minority within each generation. And I agree there will be less now with AI. But we have no polls or measurement, so the title goes a little clickbaity, in resonance to the generalized discomfort towards a new technology that schools haven’t accomodated yet (e.g. all kind of solutions are seen in the wild)

  I reckon it was the same with arithmetislcs and calculators in the past. We were able to deal with that! (so that whatever proportion of people that graduates knowing arithmetics with each generation didn’t shrink “too much”.)

  If we are considering possible scenarios, let’s be optimistic too.

  AI (discounting other problems like their ecological footprint) may not be that bad on our educational systems once we adjust…

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