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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: 0.613s | 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. Spooky23 ◴[04 Sep 25 20:51 UTC] No.45132056[source]▶
My son’s middle school English teacher comes up with various schemes to make it hard to use AI, or if you do, it makes your ideas better.

The magic of AI is it amplifies what’s there. Smart or diligent people get better. Dumb and lazy people kick the can down the road.

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2. OmarAssadi ◴[04 Sep 25 21:23 UTC] No.45132372[source]▶
Do you happen to have any examples, if you're allowed to share and comfortable doing so?

Always found differences in teaching styles and curriculum interesting as is, but I am curious about how others are balancing the new additional challenges of combating LLMs without making the material significantly more difficult to understand.

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3. Spooky23 ◴[05 Sep 25 00:19 UTC] No.45133721[source]▶
One example was she asked the kids to pick a variety of alternate ways to tell the story. My son chose to break down a book into a comic with like 10 pages. One kid did a song.

He hit a wall because his aspirations hit the limits of his pencil skills. Enter AI. He used an early Google AI (I think it was called Duet) to generate comic style imagery to put in the comic cells.

Proud dad moment - the teacher loved it. The AI image generator takes the skill barrier out and let him focus on the assignment — telling a 300 page story in a couple of dozen comic cells.