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20 Years of Banning Phones. We Don’t Have That Long for AI. (pulletsforever.com)
submitted 16 hours ago by davidwkeith@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I co-teach AP Computer Science A through Microsoft's TEALS program. The classroom runs on Chromebooks, Google Classroom, and code.org (AWS). Corporate infrastructure top to bottom. This year I added an AI tutor. That's apparently the controversial part.

The research is interesting: a Wharton study found students using standard ChatGPT performed 17% worse on exams—the "crutch" effect. But students using AI with pedagogical guardrails showed no negative effect. The problem isn't AI in education. It's unguided AI. So I built a tutor that asks probing questions instead of giving answers. I'm sharing the prompt I use and how to set one up yourself.

While, China made AI education mandatory for six-year-olds this year. We're still deciding whether to block ChatGPT.

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[–] vext01@feddit.uk 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_questioning

[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

100% the situation. He provided exactly zero info or context that he was up to that, however 😂

First - intense lecture - terse, clipped, accurate - then half-shouting while eyeballing everyone in the room, at the parts one can only assume are most often misunderstood.

And then, "you may ask questions". Lmao. Legend. And he really would do exactly that, and extremely competently, and would enjoy it if anyone engaged. His enjoyment was genuine but also similarly illegible, lol. I have a feeling he wildly outclassed even his peers at the school, bro's frustration was like a wound, sadly.

Learned a ton from the guy, but can't say many did overall, he offered it but didn't exactly invite. Gateway experience for a ton of degree candidates, that whole deal.

Not even at a particularly serious school lol. Like I said. Legend. "You will learn this [hapless candidate chasing a dollar by pretending knowledge] - to my standards - or you will not proceed. I offer everything you need and much more, but you must do the work."