Is it just me or children nowadays are putting no mind into their assignments and even relying on AI to generate creative ideas for them?
Is this even gonna help build thinking & analysing ability in children?
Is it just me or children nowadays are putting no mind into their assignments and even relying on AI to generate creative ideas for them?
Is this even gonna help build thinking & analysing ability in children?
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I don’t really interact with kids but I’ve heard some teachers say AI is a problem.
That being said – if you’re going to criticize the state of modern education you maybe shouldn’t have multiple grade-school grammatical errors in your post.
not just in kids, my coworkers are leaning on chatgpt to answer their questions when they could just google it and look for the answer almost as easily. i really hope there is a way to stop this bs, especially in schools. i feel saddened when i hear from parents how they do their kids homework or assignments for them, those are not mean as punishments, but to help their brains develop. like, how can you grow if you never have to struggle and do your best to learn and understand.
critical thinking, media literacy and reading comprehension already suck because of all of the reactionary online brain rot, i really do fear for our future if things keep going this way.
People increasingly don’t even wanna write their own Reddit posts or comments , it’s crazy.
maybe in the future my unique skill will be not having ai brain damage
Definitely yes. Inculcating the thinking and analyzing abilities for children is surely going to be tough with the AI now becoming a part even on Windows 11.
My 8 year old daughter has some basic MS Word in her class and today I caught her using something called Co-Pilot to type content for her and then format it.
And tbh, I am 51 and have been using my office laptop for a while now (agreed, it is not in years) and as of now, I know nothing much about it beyond the very basics of how to use it.
It’s definitely a thing. There’s a Microsoft white paper on the cognitive decline associated with LLM use, amongst others. It needs to be used quite carefully, and the tools themselves should ideally help you to help yourself against such an impact. But that’s an area of UX that isn’t really being explored much.
The most dangerous thing about the reliance is the lack of understanding about how it works and where it’s getting the answers from. We desperately need people to have tech literacy beyond being software users, but now we’re getting kids that can’t even use a keyboard and mouse or conceive of coding because they’ve grown up on iPads and Chromebooks that package everything to be easy-peasy
Some of my students refuse to even open a website and explore information about something. The ONLY research they’ll do is putting a question into Google and reading the AI summary.
I used AI in a class, solely because the teacher sucked. Just gave us a promt and fucked off. Like for example, the draft would be critiqued and graded after the final was due, and I got the same critiques when I tried vs when I used AI.
If you’re gonna put in the bare minimum, then dammit, so am I!
You probably should have used AI to proof read this post.