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THANKS VERY COOL GOOGLE I'LL JUST LET THE PLAGIARISM MACHINE THAT TELLS PEOPLE TO EAT GLUE AND BURNS DOWN THE RAINFOREST TO DESIGN MY CURRICULUM

ACTUALLY WE PROBABLY DON'T EVEN NEED TEACHERS WHEN WE CAN JUST SIT STUDENTS DOWN IN FRONT OF A CHROMEBOOK AND FEED THEM AI SLOP ALL DAY AND THEN THEY CAN USE AI TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

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[–] MuinteoirSaoirse@hexbear.net 31 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Boy do I have some news for you: https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/ai-may-be-coming-for-standardized-testing/2024/03

"This could be a step towards figuring out how AI can help educators achieve a long-elusive goal: Creating a new breed of assessments that actually helps inform teaching and learning in real time, he said."

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 28 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Complete word salad. What, in this person's mind, does teaching look like when it's not "in real time?" Does he mean having up-to-date information? Because almost everything you learn in K-12 is so foundational it hasn't changed in decades (if not centuries). High school sophomores are not learning about arguments between mathematicians over Newtonian physics and changes to calculus as a result. They're still trying to figure out fucking algebra and geometry.

The information I learned in school that was out of date was mostly in history and economics, which has more to do with state ideology. We were learning what is now considered Holocaust denial as fact. I had to unlearn it as an adult paying attention to what various organizations and experts are saying is current. Adding """"AI"""" isn't going to fix problems problems like this. It could even (and by "could," I mean "100 billion percent will") make things worse.

[–] MuinteoirSaoirse@hexbear.net 19 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

It seems like what they want is to have AI-generated "tasks" that students have to complete to gauge their level of knowledge so that the AI can then generate tests that are more specifically tailored to what that student's trouble spots are. I already hate this, and this is the promise they're leading with, meaning it's the most benign possible application that is the face of the actual terrible ways they will algorithmically decide students' academic potential.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 18 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Should make sure the lathe is away from me when I say this, but: I think it means daily or weekly quizes, potentially given to random students that will probably somehow get tied to school funding. Maybe teacher compensation.

Just trying to think of what's the most evil thing a management consultant would think of.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 19 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Should make sure the lathe is away from me when I say this, but: I think it means daily or weekly quizes, potentially given to random students that will probably somehow get tied to school funding. Maybe teacher compensation.

Just trying to think of what's the most evil thing a management consultant would think of.

"No Child Left Behind" from no-oil was bad enough but then obama-medal made it worse with "Race to the Top." It's getting worse from here; I'm not regretting early retirement.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

No child left behind Race to the top

Framing education as a competition with winners and losers is derply fucked. That's not how you learn stuff.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 3 points 10 hours ago

That's not how you learn stuff.

After my years as an educator experiencing increasingly worse learning environments, I have concluded that learning isn't even a priority for the ghouls that command these so-called reforms. It's about obedience training.

[–] BobDole@hexbear.net 3 points 10 hours ago

Have you ever considered running education like a business? Obviously market solutions are what we need, and that means competition!

[–] foxontherocks@hexbear.net 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Testing random students daily would be a lower workload than what was expected the previous school I worked at where I had to test all students daily.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 10 points 14 hours ago

I put in random because testing all students daily is obviously a dumb waste of time, so of course that's a thing.

[–] a_little_red_rat@hexbear.net 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I would assume that the big "real-time teaching" thing is meant to imply something like "latest trends/research in teaching", which does sound nice and efficient, but we all know it's a lie.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

"latest trends/research in teaching" often simply means whatever buzzwords and fads the higher-ups in the school system are fawning over at the moment. This semester its one thing, next semester its something else. It's most direct material consequence is how it acts as a justification for bothering teachers and undermining their professional judgement by imposing inflexible and unwieldy methods and curricula on them.

[–] a_little_red_rat@hexbear.net 2 points 10 hours ago

oh yeah absolutely, what I meant is that it is meant to sound like some scientific new way of doing education

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 21 points 16 hours ago

Creating a new breed of assessments that actually helps inform teaching and learning in real time, he said."

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