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.
@ThunderDohm if we dream big I think absolutely! A program I have admired since I taught HS is Iowa BIG high school in Cedar Rapids: https://iowabig.org/
Attached is "how it started". The "kids are bored" and "almost all work in school is 'fake'" really hit home for me.
My daughter (current 9th grader)'s world history class is mostly them taking guided notes while the teacher talks, then trying to remember facts for a test. So boring!
@ThunderDohm now, things like project-based, student-driven learning do not scale easily. Likely requires more teacher capacity and thus more $. I think the current HS model is pretty cost-optimized.
100% pure "unschooling" is a little too much for me - though I find it fascinating as an idea - but I'd love to send my kids to somewhere closer to that end of the spectrum.
All tough to pull off but it would be largely LLM-proof because there's no rote exercise to cheat on anymore!
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Joe Dohm (he/him)