"40% of fourth graders can't read. Kids are asking their teachers why they need to learn to read when AI can do it for them. Social media has destroyed their attention spans and now teachers aren't teaching, instead they're managing withdrawal symptoms."
Why are fourth graders on social media and using AI already? My fourth grade kid has no social media presence and definitely isn't familiar with AI tools. This sounds like a parent problem.
Some kids (parents, really) are beyond helping. They drag everyone in the classroom down and there's nothing a teacher can do about it. The kids are ruined because their parents ruined them. These kids need to be held back, separated, and/or expelled to give the rest of them a chance at a real education. This will require a change to incentives and laws, the first step of which is this growing awareness and dread of the situation.
Per stats in the video results are roughly the same as in 1992, with peak roughly at 2019. I do not know why is 1992 baseline, but for some reason it is.
OK, I found it, peak was 2020. Just in case someone will (again) argue this means we have to go back to pedagogy of 1970.
Annual escalation of the grade, e.g. eight grade, should be altogether eliminated in favor of one month modules. This avoids wasting a whole year if one fails the grade. Faster feedback is better, up to a point, and it is better here.
How would this work in practice though if a teacher has to teach an entire class? Of course it would have to use computer instruction, with the teacher helping small batches of students who're in the month-long module, but only for a fraction of the time. Whatever you do, please do not call it a sprint - it misuses the concept from running by lasting forever, resulting in inevitable burnout.
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Why are fourth graders on social media and using AI already? My fourth grade kid has no social media presence and definitely isn't familiar with AI tools. This sounds like a parent problem.
OK, I found it, peak was 2020. Just in case someone will (again) argue this means we have to go back to pedagogy of 1970.
„Skibidi Toilet is rotting brains!! Kids don‘t want cartoons!!“.
I suppose videos like this might get people to think about the problem who hadn‘t considered it before.
How would this work in practice though if a teacher has to teach an entire class? Of course it would have to use computer instruction, with the teacher helping small batches of students who're in the month-long module, but only for a fraction of the time. Whatever you do, please do not call it a sprint - it misuses the concept from running by lasting forever, resulting in inevitable burnout.