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The Homework Apocalypse - by Ethan Mollick:

Students will cheat with AI. But they also will begin to integrate AI into everything they do, raising new questions for educators. Students will want to understand why they are doing assignments that seem obsolete thanks to AI. They will want to use AI as a learning companion, a co-author, or a teammate. They will want to accomplish more than they did before, and also want answers about what AI means for their future learning paths. Schools will need to decide how to respond to this flood of questions.

This post raises a lot of interesting questions, but I feel like most (if not all) of those questions could be addressed by teachers and schools if we gave them sufficient resources, allowed them to help kids learn and grow rather than train them to pass standardized tests, and did not treat education entirely as STEM job-training that needs to be constantly optimized.

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