Rhymes with TurkeyMar 6

RE: https://types.pl/@krismicinski/116168700399750708

As a former high school teacher I see this moment with LLMs and education as both dreadful but also potentially liberating if we could take the opportunity to do away with rote and dull aspects of secondary and post-secondary ed.

Show threadJim JonesMar 6

@samfirke My oldest daughter is taking CS classes with Java, Python, and C# in high school. She doesn't use AI tools because she has found that they don't help her to actually struggle through and learn how the languages work.

She said that you can tell which students in her classes use AI to do their assignments and which don't because the one's who are reliant on AI can't explain how their programs work or fix implementation bugs pointed out by the instructor.

Show threadJim JonesMar 6
@samfirke She acknowledged that struggling sucks, but she has learned from experience that she will eventually figure it out and will get through it. The AI dependent students often give up very quickly.
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@GreatBigTable this is so encouraging to hear ❤️ Shout-out to her and other students who choose the more difficult path here.
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Show threadJim JonesMar 6

@samfirke we read NutureShock by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman when our kids were little. It had a big effect on our parenting.

One of the (simplified) key takeaways was to praise effort & not intelligence or results. The idea was that they can better weather the struggle of taking on new concepts and skills.

We do have smart kids, but we would consciously praise the work that they put into a subject & encourage them to struggle & fail & ask for help.

Thankfully, it has served them well.