Thanks for volunteering to flood the workforce with useless idiots!
this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
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Hard pass. There absolutely should be no AI in any classroom under any circumstances. The whole point of a classroom is to build a foundation on which to understand the fundamentals before they slap a set of training wheels on and vibe-code their way into disaster. Most of these LLMs ignore whatever guardrails you slap on them far too frequently.
The most important lesson these kids need to learn is if you can't do it yourself, you shouldn't be letting an LLM do it for you. If the best you can say about the effects is "This version doesn't seem to be actively harming them" then the bar is in hell, and we shouldn't be playing with these tools at all at this point.
I got into volunteering through TEALS, Microsoft’s nonprofit.
Good for you / I'm sorry to hear that
The class runs on Chromebooks managed by Google Classroom, writing code on code.org—which is powered by AWS.
My condolences to the students. It sounds like they're already being brought up in a world where they are expected to own nothing and be happy.
I hope you teach them about how terrible this privacy violation is, and how they are slowly being groomed into dependency.
Corporate infrastructure is already the foundation of public CS education.
That's very sad too.
...wait, you're upset because you want to indoctrinate the children with more stuff?
"Using" AI is not well defined. I assume the one that showed no difference is because the students found it useless.
Eactly! The cohert that showed no difference didn't provide guidance of any sort, just provided GPT-4 as a resource. The cohert that benifited had a tutor agent setup and the students were instructed to treat it like a tutor. Like calculators, computers, and the Internet before, we need to design curriculum with AI in mind for it to be useful.