Proposals to replace classes with AI should have to go through a "non-AI description" challenge. I do this in my head when I read things like "students will use AI to do two hours of personalized tutoring", such that it becomes "students will be expected to sit quietly and write text for two hours of unstructured time, scaffolding it into a lesson plan for themselves" -- it really helps reveal that even IF a tool were super good (not saying it is), the behavioral ask is immense
The pragmatics of running schools is just beyond some people. Think about your own attention span and how much you as an adult with adult resources probably still can struggle with unstructured time. If kids struggle to teach themselves from textbooks why wouldn't they struggle with chat apps. Just ludicrous to me how little curiosity we have about the human mind
@grimalkina I struggle with unstructured time more as an adult. The key thing is that almost no matter how I use that time, I will find a way to feel (usually slightly, but still) bad about it. That never happened when I was a kid, I would just play or read or do whatever I wanted! Of course I can't say how much of it was beneficial, but some learning happened (dinosaurs, planets, that kind of thing 😅).
