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As a high schooler, the amount of AI forced down our throats is on another level. We have assignments with Claude Prose, tutors that hallucinate, and even gemini in the apps we use to access our assignments. Even my friend's brother(a 4th grader) uses AI to generate pictures for his slideshow about "Penguins". Education is definitely facing a turn, but is it for the worse?

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Yes it’s for the worse. Not necessarily because AI in general but because it’s all so new no one knows what the result of using it in the classroom will be. So, consider yourselves an experiment of the “disruptive education” enterprise.

My advice: read lots of real books. Go to the library and study with real books even (especially) if it takes longer.

>read lots of real books. Go to the library and study with real books even (especially) if it takes longer.

Talk to lots of humans too. Friendships would be a nice bonus, but your real goal is to prepare for the next step after high school. Because no one else will prepare you.

College, job, trade school, military: networking will be more important than ever in a world where any non-verbal communication will have scrutiny behind it. You don't need to be a social butterfly, but get really comfortable holding conversations and listening (or at least, pretending to listen) to others' experiences. That's increasingly becoming the only way to truly stand out if you don't already own capital. We're increasingly moving away from the world where a high INT stat can carry you through life like my generation.

> high INT stat

What is this?

Intelligence statistic.

It's a reference to games where a high INT (intelligence) means your character is smarter

What a weird way of saying smarts.

It's more specific than smarts; DND has three separate stats representing your mental skills. Loosely, Intelligence is academic knowledge, Wisdom is practical understanding of the world, and Charisma is personal influence.

The parent comment is arguing you can't coast by with low WIS and CHA anymore.

It's a myers brigs matrix classification. Basically introverted thinking characteristic.

No, it's from Dungeons & Dragons. Characters have six primary stats: Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma, shortered to STR, DEX, CON, INT, WIS and CHA.

Myers-Briggs are four character strings, not three.

And write stuff. On paper with a pencil or pen.

And use chalk and slate

And actually no writing, only vocal arguments, Socrates style

This day and age you might call that debate club. :)

Can you talk more about this? This is super interesting! You should write a blog post about this.

I'm sure that there is an AI out there that can help with the blog post...

/duck

Yes, or in general, I recommend them to create a blog (whether about this topic or about any other topic) as it can help them write and it's just a fun thing to do. Also I hope I am able to convey my emotion properly but "nobody on the internet cares!" so it can be liberating to write how you actually wish to write and to write just for the sake of writing and for the fact that if the process of writing could help yourself get better clarity or would have helped you get some realizations which previously would've been harder to get at.

I think that making blog posts is cool but there is just a lack of information about it or it feels like, "oh this is not for me, its for people who actually know what they are talking about or people much smarter/experienced than me" so I hope that they realize that its okay to still write the blog nonetheless.

[I am currently in first year of uni, so I had started my blog in high school and I remember all the things that made me not wish to start the blog, ironically this means that I have comments on hackernews which are more blog/article like], I wish to compile all the reasons to blog as a teenager list perhaps :-D

I think, IMHO, that AI is a growing problem in education, not because it gives answers to HW or tests, but because it stifles the creative thinking schools are supposed to preach(The HW and tests are more like a side hustle). We don't know the full impacts of AI, but from what I've seen, AI is kind of destroying our education system from the inside. Using AI, people just don't have a creative spark anymore, hw assignments that are submitted all look the same with GenAI prose, and with context, AI tutors just give answers to people without explaining the concept. On the flip side, the scores on tests in my schools are higher(Most of them just test basic memorizing), but the Homework scores are some of the lowest, creating a somewhat inverted diagram of scores.

A blog post is a fantastic idea :)

Where is this slop coming from, mainly? From publishers or the teachers themselves? Who are the worst offenders?

It's a mixture of both, really. On one hand we got Google Classroom and other study platforms pushing every AI Tutor they can towards us students. On the other hand, teachers(Some might be good, but it's a growing problem) frequently hand us assignments created with Claude and ChatGPT. The school then forbids us to use AI, but there's no way to police this anymore, and we gets points taken off if we don't sounds like GPT's perfect answer. I think the worst offenders, IMHO, are the publishers who force us to use AI, but teachers definitely have a fault in it themselves.

I think that I might be just 1 year elder than you but I am in first year of college and we had a prof com exam (just yesterday)

while preparing for it, aside from the slides, our sir had also given us a pdf and I just had the vibe because of the law of triads (AI talks much more in threes) and so I decided to give it to pangram to find out it was 77% written by AI.

The sir himself said that chatgpt is a tool and should be used in a good way rather than a bad way but seeing this and other things, I am unsure if how he used it was entirely good or not. In plain words, after finding that, I was unable to discover how much real effort was put in the pdf by sir and how much of it was just replacable (if not even better) if people just prompt it directly themselves.

I am going quiet frequently to the library and otherwise and the amount of ChatGPT/Claude which is opened is quite staggering and nearly every exam is involving that in some form or other and I was discussing just that or similar with my friends yesterday. AI has changed education in this sense (for better or for worse), I think slightly for worse in terms of that its making people lose trust in connections/relationships (teachers for students and students for teachers and vice versa)

But is also providing a way to customized learning when all else fails. I use it in my own studies and I think that it's good but also it makes me sometimes feel like I am learning something when I might not accurately be doing so and I think that learning still involves struggling with hard problems yourselves which well, the AI can't do it for you. Also I really really hate how sycophantic these models have become and I am observing slightly them being more dumb in the web intefaces

Example: chatgpt made an error within johari window and made hidden/blind swap their places in it yet still said that self-disclosure/feedback was vertical/horizontal respectively, so it was actually wrong in saying so and only because I had known the slides and read it all that I caught it.

Also welcome to hackernews, I hope you enjoy your stay and stay curious, I hope that you don't get hackernews addiction like I have gotten, haha :-D

Parents are collectively sending their children to the wolves to fend for themselves, all because a little YAML touched them where they didn't want to and couldn't handle it.

I hope the kids remember this.

What the actual fuck are you even talking about

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