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A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom

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222 points dougb5 | 3 comments | 04 Sep 25 02:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.636s | source
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zdragnar ◴[04 Sep 25 03:02 UTC] No.45123041[source]▶
I recently found out that my nephew's school had no take-home homework before high school, instead having kids complete assignments during class time. At first, I was flabbergasted that they would deny kids the discipline building of managing unstructured time without direct supervision. Homework- at home- seemed like such a fundamental part of the schooling experience.

Now, I'm thinking that was pretty much they only way they could think of to ensure kids were doing things themselves.

I know it was a rough transition for my nephew, though, and I don't know that I would have handled it very well either. I'm not sure what would be a better option, though, given how much of a disservice such easy access to a mental crutch is.

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1. nancyminusone ◴[04 Sep 25 19:40 UTC] No.45131401[source]▶
Homework is nothing more than the denial of childhood. I am very thankful I quit doing mine as soon as I could get away with it.
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2. oceanplexian ◴[04 Sep 25 20:12 UTC] No.45131718[source]▶
I barely made it out of high school because of homework. And flunked college mostly because of it.

What was going on with computers was far too interesting, I'd spend 10 hours learning to code or playing around with Linux, go to school the next day with 4 hours of sleep and missed homework. It worked out though, and I wouldn't do things any differently given the chance.

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3. DaSHacka ◴[04 Sep 25 21:34 UTC] No.45132476[source]▶
You may be happy to learn that all of us who learn best like this are living large right now.

We can just GPT all our busywork assignments and get back to working on our personal research and projects.

I do feel a bit bad for the professors teaching the classes absolutely no one wants to take though (like "Global Issues" or "Gender Studies", the two most hated gen-ed courses at my uni). Everyone does the bare minimum to skate by with a C, so I imagine the professors probably revceive more GPT essays than not.