New York City has also banned AI for younger students as concerns over classroom use grow
Another school district has banned AI from being used in the classroom by students across all grades. While this isn’t the first ban of its kind that we’ve seen, what’s interesting is that it was introduced just weeks after the district started piloting Google Gemini for older students. Frederick County became the latest school district to ban AI use in the classroom this week, voting 6-1 to restrict the technology from pre-K through 12th grade. Initially, the board considered only banning AI for younger students, but eventually extended the ban through high school.
I think this is the right approach they’re taking:
This is the same logic used for decades where young kids weren’t allowed to use calculators for simple addition/subtraction/multiplication/division, but calculators were a requirement for higher Algebra and above.
Your reading comprehension is ass. They piloted it for high school students for just a few weeks before realizing it was a bad idea for all ages. It doesn’t make sense to use chatbots in any learning environment, where you have no way to verify output.
Cool, so is yours apparently. Someone else already pointed this out , and I already admitted my mistake.
You’re certainly welcome to your own opinion, but we’ve already covered counter arguments to that point too..
I can’t see that comment, I probably blocked them or something.
Why golly thanks
How? By asking their chatbot to verify each statement? School is a place for facts and trusted sources; I don’t see any convincing reason to change that.
I mean to be fair half of what they teach in American history class is just utter bullshit anyway so AI ain’t doing no harm there. “The pilgrims and the native americans were super nice friends and nothing bad ever happened.” “Thomas Jefferson might have had slaves, but he was like really nice to them.”
Not a real argument
I wasn’t making an arguement for using AI I was just being tounge in cheek
Sure thing, friend.
Wow, you’re really failing on the reading comprehension tonight. This is explained in the immediately proceeding sentence to the one you quoted of mine which you either skipped or did not comprehend. That sentence is “even those with only a little bit of knowledge”. The student wouldn’t have to ask a chatbot. The student would already know enough domain knowledge of the example topic to know the LLM output is wrong.
I’m not sure whats up with your abrasiveness tonight, but I’m not interested in it. Maybe tomorrow will be better. Have a nice night.
Abrasive? I think you’re extremely thin skinned. I called your reading comprehension ass and you already admitted it was ass, let’s move on.
This would immediately fail for any factual question though, like, “what is the currency used in Japan?” If the chatbot responds “yuan”, the only domain knowledge that would allow you to see that as bullshit is the actual currency used in Japan, but in which case, why ask?
But that isn’t the approach they’re taking, that’s the approach they’re reversing course on. They’re now banning AI for pre-K through 12th grade
You’re right. I misread that. I think they’re making a mistake with that, but I get it. How to adapt the early education methods to a world with AI now has no proven path yet.
Isn’t the whole thing that none of the skills you need to deal with an AI world come from actually using AI?
And AI specifically degrades the kind of critical thought that high school is supposed to make absolutely certain that the kids have before leaving.
High school also functions as a method to prepare students for how to interact with the world. Dumping them into a world where AI is commonplace with no knowledge or mental protection from it would be a disservice to them.
Simple preparation.
Don’t use it. Commit acts of arson on resources that prop it up.
I’ll take my masters in education now.
I can see having targeted coursework to teach students to use AI productively and responsibly. Outside of that, the temptation to let AI do all the work and learn nothing is strong, and I’m not sure it’s worth interfering with those few precious years where kids can become proficient at reading, writing and math to drench their brains with AI. Besides, they’ll probably use it outside of school anyway, making school be the one place where they’re forced to do their own thinking.