Comment by teitoklien
2 years ago
To be honest, for some children, even books are better teachers than classrooms with other teenagers constantly disrupting the class with teachers not being able to teach nor being able to punish the disruptive children due to modern regulatory burden, which removes total accountability from children.
Our classrooms have already been ruined, not just in america but worldwide. AI will be great for the decent, obedient, smart kids as a tool to extend themselves learning wise, those kids can read books at home, learn, ask questions to AI that immediately generates visuals to explain concepts use agentic model to detect the core of the child’s doubt about a topic in background thinking and iteratively resolve all the issues.
But the saddest part of all this to me, is it’ll never be able to help the disruptive kids with often broken households with no one to look after them, no one to lead them to the right path, the more at-home solutions will get better, the creamy top layer of children will distance themselves from broken community classroom education, and it’ll further divide us all as a society.
To think of that inevitable future, it breaks my heart. AIs can be far better evaluators than classrooms, with connected cameras, recognition systems, anti-cheat solutions to then automatically review a child’s progress, capability, depth of knowledge about systems, and can do it in a more standardized way to benchmark all of america’s children reliably than teachers and state level evaluation exams we have now.
CommonCore was meant to solve this, its been a disaster, i think the future of AI is more prominent in Evaluation than it is in Learning, learning wise i think it is doomed anyways, simply because 70% of kids are addicted to doomscrolling social media, have been habituated to bad disruptive behaviours, and are left unsupervised as “iPad children” by modern day unserious parents. I dont see AI solving any of that anytime soon, only pragmatic human solutions could possibly solve that, with communities taking a stand to reverse these declining trends.
"unserious parents" looks to me like we are attempting to optimise for maximum productive potential in a competitive, zero sum human labour market.
If we're lucky, AI may also disrupt some core assumptions about what a childhood should be.
I'd love to not be forced to enlist my child in the state sponsored training program for the white collar meat grinder, competing against ritalin packing tiger moms, just for the chance to potentially avoid resource scarcity later in life.
> are left unsupervised as “iPad children” by modern day unserious parents
They were left unsupervised on the street before, I’m not sure if there’s significant difference in what the people then and now thought.
>> Our classrooms have already been ruined, not just in america but worldwide.
Hmm ..citation?