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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a software engineer who uses AI heavily to stay competitive. Using AI degrades skills, but allows you to accomplish more. It doesn't have much place in education unless the goal of education is to get a higher GPA, more accolades, finishing coursework with less effort, all while retaining less knowledge and understanding. I get why kids do it. They don't want to lose out to peers for getting a job, but please don't be under the impression this is going to be a boost for education. In 5 years the proof will be indisputable that AI correlated strongly with a drop in reading, writing, and math, just like the smartphone.

Also, AI isn't some difficult skill that kids need to become proficient at to begin with.[b] Anybody can type into a chat window and ask a bot for help.[/b] [/quote]
I think for simple things, yes, but for complex things, you need to know how to ask AI the right question.[/quote]

DP but yes, for asking the right questions, you need to actually know things. [/quote]

This is also all functioning under the assumption that teachers know how to actually teach these “more complex prompting asks” or whatever. I am a high school English teacher and I don’t, nor do I have any desire to learn how to to then turn around to teach it to students.

I honestly don’t get where we see the functionality of this in the classroom anyway: brainstorming? Like that’s the skill students should be working on themselves - it’s a skill they need to sharpen. Writing? Same thing. Even polishing - it takes a students genuine writing and voice and flattens it into something that’s not theirs and sounds like everybody else’s. It’s obvious, boing, and altogether evades a student building these foundational and fundamental skills themselves. And grading it is that much more difficult because it’s just. Not. Their. Writing. And that’s what we’re in the classroom to do![/quote]

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