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Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI

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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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Mtinie ◴[18 Sep 25 19:39 UTC] No.45294028[source]▶
It’s both. Technology is a component (I’d we wouldn’t have books, recorded videos, multimedia aids, etc.).
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1. lo_zamoyski ◴[18 Sep 25 21:39 UTC] No.45295340[source]▶
Technology can help, but in recent history, there's a track record of bogus pedagogy that insists on incorporating technology without any sound justification. Some of this was motivated by corporations trying to sell shit (like computers), some by silly or clueless teachers and administrators. Some of it is informed by dubious pedagogical methodologies like gamification.

For the most part, it's a matter of clear presentation, student engagement, and effort. A well-written textbook (many suck) and a good teacher (same) and a properly disposed student (which presupposes things like certain virtues; parents are responsible for teaching and supporting these for the most part). Technology won't get around the basic human reality, and sometimes, there's nothing to fix. Some people aren't interested.