When I was teaching English full time for the past 18 years, I was busy every day. It’s hard work teaching students to read and write effectively. Yet, reading scores are going down nationally. You cannot find any proof that kids are reading more or even enough. They are reading less. Anything that makes them read even less, which AI will do, cannot be good. You can’t spin it any other way.
This will be the conundrum of our age. I do fear that AI will continue to extend the income inequality gap as students with access to more resources and more technology will continue to leapfrog over those who are left behind. But I seriously don't know how students will survive in the future if they don't understand AI and how to use it productively. But I agree, reading is essential for the whole project but, as you say, reading scores have been going down well before AI. Time and data will tell whether or not AI makes it worse.
I'm fundamentally anti-screen, at least for elementary school kids like mine.
Completely agree. This initiative applies to High Schools.
When I was teaching English full time for the past 18 years, I was busy every day. It’s hard work teaching students to read and write effectively. Yet, reading scores are going down nationally. You cannot find any proof that kids are reading more or even enough. They are reading less. Anything that makes them read even less, which AI will do, cannot be good. You can’t spin it any other way.
This will be the conundrum of our age. I do fear that AI will continue to extend the income inequality gap as students with access to more resources and more technology will continue to leapfrog over those who are left behind. But I seriously don't know how students will survive in the future if they don't understand AI and how to use it productively. But I agree, reading is essential for the whole project but, as you say, reading scores have been going down well before AI. Time and data will tell whether or not AI makes it worse.