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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: 0.019s | source
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djoldman ◴[04 Sep 25 21:36 UTC] No.45132499[source]▶
Unfortunately, this kind of story will continue to be a popular one in newspapers and magazines, garnering lots of clicks. It feeds into the "everything is different now" sort of desperate helplessness people seem primed to adopt with respect to AI sometimes.

Obviously the answer to testing and grading is to do it in the classroom. If a computer is required, it can't connect to the internet.

Caught with a cellphone, you fail the test. Caught twice you fail the class.

The non-story beatings will continue until morale and common sense improve.

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marcus_holmes ◴[05 Sep 25 07:39 UTC] No.45135973[source]▶
From The New York Times 1996, the internet is ruining education:

https://archive.is/qTAXR

It's an easy win for a journalist.

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1. aprilthird2021 ◴[05 Sep 25 07:50 UTC] No.45136049[source]▶
I mean, it kind of did...

Look at our political leaders now vs in the 1990s as an example of how poorly educated we are now

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2. marcus_holmes ◴[05 Sep 25 08:39 UTC] No.45136345[source]▶
that was television that destroyed our political leaders ... https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/how-early-warning...
3. lordhumphrey ◴[05 Sep 25 09:03 UTC] No.45136492[source]▶
It absolutely did.

100% literacy, but all we read is garbage, and all we write is short and shallow. 100% computer literacy too, if that term means making accounts, clicking on links, scrolling up and down, taking videos of things, and commenting.

The internet has ended up being a massive drain on people's energy, and driven communities apart. Of course, there are exceptions here and there amongst the better educated classes, people who manage to shield themselves from the worst transgressions of the behemoths running the tech infrastructure that dominates people's lives.

And, of course, these exalted internet users then vehemently argue that the internet is great, and people just aren't using it right, like them. And round and round the thing goes, getting worse and worse for most people.