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1 in 4 U.S. Teachers Say AI Tools Do More Harm Than Good in K-12
Education
Author : sarimkx
Score : 12 points
Date : 2024-05-30 21:05 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| artninja1988 wrote:
| Damn. Only 1 in 4 U.S. Teachers Say AI Tools Do More Harm Than
| Good in K-12 Education? Better than expected
| hi-v-rocknroll wrote:
| Buried the lede. Most teachers are unsure.
| wiseowise wrote:
| Only 1 out of 4?
| jmeyer2k wrote:
| As someone working on an AI tool for education, I think it's
| going to be one of the hardest industries to get right, but also
| the most important.
|
| - It's going to be tricky for AI tutors to make an impact.
| Teachers are better at inspiring students to do better than
| computers ever will be, but for those already motivated, AI will
| provide a great study tool.
|
| - Students have access to LLMs as well now, so any writing
| assessment will have to be timed and closely monitored, or in-
| class, otherwise students can easily cheat.
|
| - Teacher-facing tools will come before student-facing tools
| because of the safety aspect.
|
| We're building an AI grading assistant for teachers
| (https://automark.io) that helps them provide more writing
| feedback to students. Papers are extremely time consuming to
| grade and give feedback on, which is detrimental to both the
| teacher and the student. Giving students unlimited practice
| essays before the scored essay is one area where AI will really
| move the needle.
|
| Grading is also one of the main shortcomings of online courses,
| so I'm guessing we'll see more in that area in the future where
| high quality courses can scale to 10k-100k+ students.
| infamouscow wrote:
| 3 in 4 U.S. teachers say AI tools do more good than harm in K-12
| education.
|
| The idiot(s) that came up with this headline should be
| embarrassed for being so biased. I hope LLMs take their job. This
| undermines the credibility of the institution.
| jsheard wrote:
| If you clicked on the article you'd see that only 6% said they
| think AI tools do more good than harm, it wasn't a binary
| choice.
| datavirtue wrote:
| I thought all teenagers would be at 100% adoption of AI chat for
| homework and projects at this point.
| philip1209 wrote:
| The only thing this shows is that the education system actively
| resists preparing students to succeed in a modern economy.
|
| This is the modern equivalent of saying "keyboards hurt
| penmanship education."
| nebula8804 wrote:
| >This is the modern equivalent of saying "keyboards hurt
| education, penmanship education is suffering."
|
| Ironically if I had listened to my teachers more I wouldn't be
| peck typing as a programmer and my penmanship would be more
| like cursive than the chicken scratch that I currently write.
| greenthrow wrote:
| I get you're going for the "AI is a tool" thing, but the
| problem with your analogy is that LLMs hallucinate and many
| students use them in lieu of doing reading and reasoning about
| the content.
|
| LLMs are to english class as a car would be to running class.
| Yes, the tool exists and is useful but it prevents you from
| getting the intended benefit.
| forgot-im-old wrote:
| Unfortunately the Pandora's box has already been opened.., we are
| going to have to get better at thinking critically and judging
| evidence if we are to survive into in the sea of LLM generated
| content.
| analog31 wrote:
| Educational software has always been an abyss. While in college,
| my summer internships (early 1980s) were at an educational
| computer facility. They had a "lab" with a variety of available
| computers and software for teachers to try out. Virtually all of
| it was abysmal -- glorified flash cards.
|
| It wasn't much different when my kids were in high school.
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