Students need to learn how to use AI, but they also need to learn how to think for themselves. So in schools there should be some kinds of work where students are expected if not required to use AI, and others where it's banned, and no mushy middle ground in between.
Many users back Paul Graham's push for schools to mandate or ban AI use to eliminate gray areas because it forces clearer, more rigorous assignments, while others dismiss the idea as unrealistic and harmful to modern teaching.
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The key is to be explicit: for each kind of work in each class, is AI use expected, or banned? A school that's not explicit in this way is badly run.
Students need to learn how to use AI, but they also need to learn how to think for themselves. So in schools there should be some kinds of work where students are expected if not required to use AI, and others where it's banned, and no mushy middle ground in between.
The banned uses of AI will usually have to be prevented. Otherwise students will just cheat. This will change the way a lot of classes work, but there is no alternative.
The key is to be explicit: for each kind of work in each class, is AI use expected, or banned? A school that's not explicit in this way is badly run.
@paulg Terrible idea. nothing will ever beat the traditional way of teaching and learning. Universities should do more work and assessments on campus... handwritten. Thats the only way to escape AI. Do away with homework and take-home assignments.
@paulg Education is always the best way because the one who denies that artificial intelligence should immediately stop with text editors with grammatical correction alignment correction.
@paulg The people I see doing this really well are @Alphaschool I know you know them already.
@paulg When the TI-89 calculator came out, our math teacher (Mr. Toma @PalyVikings) said it was not allowed. Then he got one and a week later he said it was required. He updated the curriculum to incorporate it.
@paulg Every leap in technological progress forces curriculums to drop old scaffolding: Latin, log tables, manual navigation... resisting structural shifts is futile.
@paulg AI, like calculators before them, should only be permitted once a student has shown basic mastery of the underlying facts and methods.
@paulg @bscholl Homework should no longer be done at home.
@paulg in india, i have partnered with a gaming company who's in talks with the government to use ai generated educational games in schools and also if students can use http://gamesbyzeon.com to build some educational games themselves.
@paulg i just built ext to humble me down where it replaces ai with 💩
@paulg Most schooling is not any better than cheating with AI anyway. It’s just endless regurgitation of facts.
They never teach how we figured out the sun was the center of the solar system. They just tell you that it is and ask that on the test the next week.
It's a new technology like all the others emerged over time we started carving words in stone today we have tools that save us time and no more than that we have text editors that do a whole job that would take hours weeks to do manually. Now, we have the artificial intelligence. Why AI is the evil of the New World????
@paulg Just like how you need to learn addition before they let you use a calculator to do it.
@paulg the mushy middle is just vibes-based plagiarism with extra steps
Sorry, gotta disagree. The entire system should be scrapped and rebuilt. With AI and other advances kids should be getting the equivalent of a college education before they ever reach age 18 and do deeper study from there if they want to. Learnings will become one on one with AI's curated specifically for education of children, group activities changed to just that. A mix of voluntary activities kids can choose instead of being forced into. Burn it all down. Build it back better. Teaching used to be a profession of little to no interest in cash and power as prestige, looked down upon for the regular non elite university systems (see any movie from the 1940s back for their place in society relative) It turned into a cash and look at me, i'm a TEACHER culture starting in the fifties with many taking the jobs for the security, benefits, and lack of oversight.
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@paulg As a high school student i definitely agree.
Those classes would unfortunately just have to be completely technology free though as there aren't many simple ways to exclusively get rid of AI.
Also, majority classes should still be work involving AI usage as that's the future
@paulg The idea of students using AI is worthwhile, but I agree with you: if we rely on AI to solve everything, it will dull our thinking, and that's not good.
@paulg There should also be restrictions especially for the young age groups Critical thinking is as well important