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I got into volunteering through TEALS, Microsoft’s nonprofit.

Good for you / I’m sorry to hear that

The class runs on Chromebooks managed by Google Classroom, writing code on code.org—which is powered by AWS.

My condolences to the students. It sounds like they’re already being brought up in a world where they are expected to own nothing and be happy.

I hope you teach them about how terrible this privacy violation is, and how they are slowly being groomed into dependency.

Corporate infrastructure is already the foundation of public CS education.

That’s very sad too.

…wait, you’re upset because you want to indoctrinate the children with more stuff?

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davidwkeith@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yeah, no. The state of affairs is sad, but a common complaint about AI in the classroom is there is no open source, federated, or other ‘free’ version. It sucks, but we need to work with the tools we have.

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- RalfWausE@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  No, de decisively don’t “need to work with the tools we have”. We have to teach our students the dangers if that abomination and ways to disrupt, hamper, poison and destroy this stuff.
  
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- XLE@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Don’t the tools we have include internet and even (gasp) book literacy rather than going to a chatbot? At very best, evidence AI helps anyone is shaky. At worst, we are witnessing a reverse Flynn effect in education right now, and this alleged tool - besides not doing what was promised and can’t even make enough money to prop itself up - has been caught enticing children into suicide. If a billionaire like Sam Altman can’t code in a guardrail to save a child’s life, why would you?
  
  Why encourage it?
  
  Are the children being taught a tool, or are they being used as guinea pigs?
  
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- corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  a common complaint about AI in the classroom is there is no open source, federated, or other ‘free’ version. It sucks,
  
  The usable free LLMs that can be run on-prem sucks? Is that what sucks? Because there are some.
  
  Do the complainers know they’re complaining about a non-issue? Can you use that situation to help describe what Beggaring the Question means?
  
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