Bram MoreinisToday, #codeorg, the leading voice for CS standards in schools and lobbyist for state graduation requirements, rebranded itself as #codeai.
Furious, I wrote a pointed post on their forums, getting an (apparently AI infused) reply from a senior manager, followed by an impassioned ditto from another CS teacher, also on Mastodon.
You can sign up to view the thread at https://forum.code.org/t/codeai-branding.
I'll attach my opening message, with a few edits to squeeze it into 3 toots.
-Bram
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CodeAI Branding
I love how Code.org has created AI units for those of us ready and interested in bringing our students to this area. However, it is fraught. Many critics view “Artificial Intelligence” as a marketing term for the effort to throw so much compute at LLMs that they turn into GAI, a strategy that is as wasteful from a computing standpoint as it is destructive from an environmental, energy, and human resource one. Our AP CS Principles students are taking our final weeks to watch and research topic...
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