>"Honestly, if we ejected all the genAI tools into the sun, I would be quite pleased."
Well that's not going to happen. Teachers are not OK because education design is just plain antiquated.
Education needs to adapt. Which frankly has not been the case for 100 years. They still follow the 'factory model' of complete obedience, uniformity, and feeding into 'higher education' with creativity and curiousity is crushed out of students.
30 kids in a class is still insane. You either adopt segregation for neurodivergent kids or leave them behind. The top level kids can be ignored as not-a-problem(giving up the chance to make little einsteins). The mid tier kids dont get the help they need to elevate; and so teachers are burnt out attempting to make failing kids try to pass. Everyone is lost.
education is ridiculous. They spend days teaching pythagorean theroem over and over and nobody uses it. Whereas financial literacy is practically ignored. civic knowledge is biased toward the political party that promises to give teachers raises.
Modern technology is not taught, it's being seen as evil and needs to be ejected into the sun?
Imagine instead where pythagorean theory is taught by a video from the best teacher; and then standardized tested on it. The teachers who waste them time year over year can now spend it working with all the kids, parents have live up to date digital report cards available all the time.
No longer do you accept 51%. It's more about, where in the path the kid is on their journey of education. They might be grade 2 reading, but grade 12 in math. It's not that they are failing english, its that they need help from the teacher to get further.
It's also what happens when you can only hire that many teachers.
> The top level kids can be ignored as not-a-problem(giving up the chance to make little einsteins). The mid tier kids dont get the help they need to elevate; and so teachers are burnt out attempting to make failing kids try to pass. Everyone is lost.
I've been there, teaching programming at a decent university, and it's basically triage. The top students will indeed take care of themselves, and the bottom ones are beyond help. Your job is to encourage the top when you can, but mostly to teach the middle, and help those at risk of falling into the bottom. It's grim, but it's the best you can do.
> 30 kids in a class is still insane. You either adopt segregation for neurodivergent kids or leave them behind. The top level kids can be ignored as not-a-problem(giving up the chance to make little einsteins)
When I was in high school (few decades ago, and it was pretty average US high school), this was not a very big problem because students got to pick their classes. If someone needs more help with math, there are optional classes like pre-algrebra. On the other hand, if someone wants to do Calculus to 9th grade - more power to them, and the school would accept credit for math classes from local colleges too.
Well that's not going to happen. Teachers are not OK because education design is just plain antiquated.
Education needs to adapt. Which frankly has not been the case for 100 years. They still follow the 'factory model' of complete obedience, uniformity, and feeding into 'higher education' with creativity and curiousity is crushed out of students.
30 kids in a class is still insane. You either adopt segregation for neurodivergent kids or leave them behind. The top level kids can be ignored as not-a-problem(giving up the chance to make little einsteins). The mid tier kids dont get the help they need to elevate; and so teachers are burnt out attempting to make failing kids try to pass. Everyone is lost.
education is ridiculous. They spend days teaching pythagorean theroem over and over and nobody uses it. Whereas financial literacy is practically ignored. civic knowledge is biased toward the political party that promises to give teachers raises.
Modern technology is not taught, it's being seen as evil and needs to be ejected into the sun?
Imagine instead where pythagorean theory is taught by a video from the best teacher; and then standardized tested on it. The teachers who waste them time year over year can now spend it working with all the kids, parents have live up to date digital report cards available all the time.
No longer do you accept 51%. It's more about, where in the path the kid is on their journey of education. They might be grade 2 reading, but grade 12 in math. It's not that they are failing english, its that they need help from the teacher to get further.