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Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI

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359 points FromTheArchives | 4 comments | 18 Sep 25 17:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.617s | source
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Imnimo ◴[18 Sep 25 19:05 UTC] No.45293673[source]▶
I looked at the example for computer science basics for a 7th grader interested in food. Explanations include:

"a list can be used for a recipe"

"a set can be used to list all the unique ingredients you need to buy for a week's meals"

"a map can be used for a cookbook"

"a priority queue can be used to manage orders in a busy restaurant kitchen"

"a food-pairing graph can show which ingredients taste good together"

Maybe I'm over-estimating the taste of 7th graders, but I feel like I would get sick of this really quickly.

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apwell23 ◴[18 Sep 25 19:09 UTC] No.45293709[source]▶
yea this is stupid . agreed.

I don't know when these dorks will understand that education isn't a technical problem. Its a social and emotional problem.

existing material is clear enough to learn from.

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1. rhetocj23 ◴[18 Sep 25 20:55 UTC] No.45294906[source]▶
Theres a reason why theres a grave yard of Google's dead projects.

Its annoying that software is such a high gross margin industry - I would love to see Googles cash get taken away so they cant take these vanity projects.

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2. golem14 ◴[18 Sep 25 21:33 UTC] No.45295268[source]▶
There's a _huge_ cottage industry of edu apps and programs that are both hugely expensive and not better at teaching, consuming a lot VC and end user $$$. As a first step, this seems not bad at all.

I do agree that it would be better to dial in on a pupil's interest than the grade level (my kid may be 7th grade in English but 9th grade in Chemistry, for instance.)

[Edit: fix typo]

3. blibble ◴[18 Sep 25 22:02 UTC] No.45295555[source]▶
if the US government had done its job and split google's monopolistic ad business into what should be 4 different companies, then we wouldn't have this problem
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4. rhetocj23 ◴[18 Sep 25 22:03 UTC] No.45295565[source]▶
The average ROIC is doing a nice job in compensating for their awful marginal ROIC.