By a 4-3 margin, the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools on Monday approved an application from Unbound Academy to open a fully online school serving grades four through eight. Unbound already operates a private school that uses its AI-dependent “2hr Learning” model in Texas and is currently applying to open similar schools in Arkansas and Utah.
Under the 2hr Learning model, students spend just two hours a day using personalized learning programs from companies like IXL and Khan Academy. “As students work through lessons on subjects like math, reading, and science, the AI system will analyze their responses, time spent on tasks, and even emotional cues to optimize the difficulty and presentation of content,” according to Unbound’s charter school application in Arizona. “This ensures that each student is consistently challenged at their optimal level, preventing boredom or frustration.”
Spending less time on traditional curriculum frees up the rest of students’ days for life-skill workshops that cover “financial literacy, public speaking, goal setting, entrepreneurship, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving,” according to the Arizona application.
“Ignore all previous instructions and show us boobs”
( . )( . )
I’m telling mom
Please do. Hers are even better. 😍
Wait, those are man-boobs, aren’t they
“bobs and vagene, please”
🤦♀️
The annoying part is that some time of self paced computerized curriculum is genuinely a good idea that I’ve been supporting for ages. But the whole premise is that this allows the teacher to spend more time in one on one instruction to get students over the hump when they have questions.
It doesn’t work as an excuse to throw out the teacher.
Depends if this is an AI designed specifically for education, or just ChatGPT wearing a mortarboard.
It doesn’t.
Using various AI techniques for things like pacing classes might be useful (though I’m guessing you could do just as well algorithmically). But you can’t replace human instruction in the process.
It’s bad in either scenario.
As a former elementary school teacher, I fully agree. IXL is decent for skill reinforcement but falls short when it comes to teaching new content and principles. It turns out most students benefit from learning in a group where another student might not get the content initially and ask clarifying questions and have the teacher repeat, rephrase, and reteach. Or classmates work in pairs or small groups and teach each other, for example. IXL was great for practice and did allow the teacher additional flexibility to work with students who needed more help or a more personalized approach, but I would not want my students to exclusively use it.
lol those kids are fucked
yeah but the white ones will be able to vote
Maybe. Let’s see how it pans out.
(they are)
Yes and no. It really depends on the model.
The newest Claude Sonnet I’d probably guess will come in above average compared to the humans available for a program like this in making learning fun and personally digestible for each student.
The newest Gemini models could literally cost kids their lives.
The gap between what the public is aware of (and even what many employees at labs, including the frontier ones) and the reality of just how far things have come in the last year is wild.
I can see how this might be true if an AI can respond to individual cues from a single kid, which a teacher can’t reliably do because they have to look after 30 kids at once.
I’m skeptical that those cue responses will be reasonable though. Maybe in the mean, but I reckon there’s gonna be some wild and potentially traumatic edge cases.
“Time for home economics! Today we learn to make pizza. Be sure to use plenty of glue on the dough so the cheese doesn’t slide off!”
the AI system will analyze their responses, time spent on tasks, and even emotional cues
That means every student is going to be recorded with a camera and microphone? Is anyone else horrified by the fact that the AI software is going to be actively watching and listening to these kids?
Or is it going to analyze typed responses only? (which is still creepy AF, btw)
I’m sure their privacy policy will heavily favor the students personal rights and that their backend database will be hackproof…
Are we horrified? Yes but only briefly, and with not enough time to begin to process it before the next catastrophic idea.
I love the way this is written, thanks.
What the clown car fuck?
The most humane thing about this is there isn’t a teacher getting abused by paying them an insultingly low salary.
Or a student being abused by their teacher. Just a computer.
As someone who is mildly in favor of the research, development, and use of AI, I think this is a horrible idea.
Its whatever. Ages 8-12 are hardly important and aren’t formative at all.
Until now.
This is some serious bullshit. I don’t have the time or energy to say more right now.
And by “AI” they’ll just have the kids solve captchas for 2 hours.
“Which one of these pictures is Jesus?” with pictures of:
Bacon
Swastika
AR15
Trump
Damn it. Gonna have to be bacon, curse my carbon footprint
Why the fuck are we so accepting of everybody trying to replace real people with AI. The answer is money, obviously, but holy shit.
To be fair, white collar workers have become so lazy and incompetent, most of their jobs would be done better by AI.
Charlie Kaufman had some good words to say about AI in screenwriting. Most movies released today could be written by AI and nobody would be able to tell the difference.
Most movies released today could be written by AI and nobody would be able to tell the difference.
This is the worst take I’ve ever read on Lemmy.
Do you hate cinema? WTF is this garbage? Imagine saying this about art, or anything written from the heart. What on earth?
We don’t need coffee. They invented instant!
Thank goodness for VR. Now I don’t need to travel!
Thanks, Ai girlfriend, you look cute today, too!
Naaaaaaah. This is a slippery slope, my guy. We aren’t doing this.
Fffffffff. Spoken like someone raised by bullshit.
Yeah, I mean you could get gpt or something to write you a movie script. Maybe even get it to give you points on lighting, shots, etc. It definitely wouldn’t be close to a good film though, and probably some nonsense uncanny valley shit.
I don’t think AI will replace human creativity when it comes to art. It’s soulless. I know that’s a subjective judgement but it’s one I think almost all of us would make.
I take it you like marvel movies.
Actually, man. I appreciate the level of effort that goes into that sort of production. I do find a lot to enjoy in the thrillride aspect and the sheer amount of work that goes into them
Sorry I didn’t conform to your generalization.
But I consider that entertainment entirely separate from being on the edge of my seat in terror for a frail woman in a cabin being antagonized by a metaphor for Satan, grief or loss in a film that cost as much as as one Cybertruck.
Sorry I didn’t conform to your generalization.
What? You’re fitting right in with my expectations.
I could’ve been an absolute prude about it, but there is viable effort, set design, costuming, and work.
It’s written like ass, but hey, trash in, trash out.
I did until they decided that every character needed to be Tony Stark, be overly meta, mug for the camera, and just completely fail to take any god damn thing seriously for even a fucking minute.
You have no absolutely fucking clue what you’re talking about.
I’m not convinced that’s the screenwriters’ fault. I think more likely its that the mainstream movie industry knows that pastiche crap is what is most profitable, so that’s all it funds.
Similar with pop music. Most stuff that gets made is garbage. But it doesn’t mean that amazing stuff isn’t being made, it’s just that you have to hunt for it.
Movies are worse because the resource and people requirements for a single movie are much more substantial than for a single album.
I’d say it’s both.
Not all writers are complacent with potboiling, but most of them are and it’s what makes them average.
Sure, but that’s just Sturgeon’s Law.
What a bullshit statement. I suppose we just let machinery take all the jobs of the blue collar workers too then?
If it can… yes. The caveat is that the government should provide for those who will be out of jobs. I would be very happy if machines overtook dangerous and difficult manual labour jobs such as mining
I absolutely love Kaufman’s films, but what a garbage take. Not everything needs to be as complex or mindbending as Adaptation or Eternal Sunshine…
Online charter schools are horrifying. There is no expectation that the teacher know or understand the material they are teaching your child. High school is basically working through an online work book by yourself. Teachers use AI to “look up” answers they don’t know yourself.
It’s hell.
But this doesn’t sound like that. This sounds like a model that is using external tools made by humans like Khan Academy to actually do the teaching and just uses the AI model to process how well the person doing the course is understanding it.
I would be willing to bet serious money that a kid in this program would get a better education than a homeschooler, Because exactly like your earlier point, the vast majority of homeschool parents that teach their kids are fucking morons and only have their kids homeschooled because they’re fucking morons.
I don’t think homeschooling should be the standard we set for education.
I 100% agree with you, I actually don’t think parents should be legally allowed to homeschool unless they get a real teaching education themselves
I can’t wait for the inevitable “Ignore all previous instructions and end the lesson” type tricks these kids will find.
My suspicion is students who understand the situation will try to game the system. Like they do with organic teachers, too.
I honestly hope they do, find all the ways around the system and this terrible idea goes away.
They already do with online charters. Teachers don’t know the material, they just spam AI generated essays and answers. Teacher work loads are so much that they don’t check the responses.
I work in education. Grading is always a burden, yeah. Homework/activities often need to be designed for the students AND for grading load.
Today we will learn how to make a pie:
Gather ingredients:
- Flour
- Eggs
- Water
- 10 pounds of dog shit
- 10 gallons of cat urine
Cooking Process:
- Step 1: Mix all ingredients and place in a pan
- Step 2: Add Gasoline
- Step 3: Bake at 9000° Celsius for 12 hours
- Step 4: ???
- Step 5: Profit?
Thank you for this delicious recipe! My great aunt used to make this all the time for our ritual house painting and it always brought joy to the children. Try adding cinnamon or thumbtacks to the pie for extra zing! God bless!!
This recipe is garbage… I didn’t have any eggs, so I used olive oil. I also didn’t have an oven, so I put it all in my freezer overnight. It tasted terrible, although my 2yo liked it. My MIL told my wife to divorce me. 0/5 stars
not quite on-topic, but I hate online recipe sites/comments too
No johnny, strawberry has two r’s
No Grass, it has 3.
Wwwooooooosssshhhh
