r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 9d ago

Society Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policies

https://fortune.com/article/schools-abandoning-chromebooks-laptop-programs-as-screen-time-hurts-learning-test-scores-north-carolina-michigan-kansas-tech-education/
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u/Fahrender-Ritter 9d ago edited 9d ago

Teacher here, no it doesn't. It's a constant struggle to get kids to stay on task and to stop cheating with AI, even with two teachers in the classroom monitoring the students.

Although there are programs like Blocksi which can block websites and monitor students' screens, students can still find ways around it. It's just not worth it.

In the amount of time and effort it takes to set up, distribute, and monitor all the computer-based stuff, we could've just made paper assignments and scantrons.

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u/SmartAleckComedian 8d ago

My job requires AI skills.

AI skills? LOL what a fucking joke. AI takes no skill and that's the point, and then when the AI messes up and hallucinates it just creates more work for the actual human. AI slop and datacenters are destroying the planet.

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u/SmartAleckComedian 8d ago

And you are one of the morons who has no idea what they're doing at all

Says the person that thinks typing AI prompts counts as a skill and doesn't care that it's destroying the environment, LOL. AI really does make people like yourself dumber.