obscurette

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by obscurette 6d ago
I have experience with highschool students and I'd like to add one thing. There is a clear anti-AI attitude especially amongst brighter students because they see this as yet another clear attempt, in an education system already in chao
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How Big Tech Captured American Schools(nytimes.com)
2 points by obscurette 16d ago|0 comments
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by obscurette 24d ago
No. I'm making a claim that the world is too safe from a perspective of my students. I see it very clearly that a lot of anxiety actually originates from fear. They are afraid to explore environment because they are not allowed to do i
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by obscurette 24d ago
It's much more universal and complicated than that. One of the big issues schools and pedagogy in general struggle with is that our environment is far too safe in too many ways. For kids there is too few ways to learn from failures. At
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by obscurette 1mo ago
Just one of many tragedies bound to one of the biggest problems in modern society – obsession to victims. Framing yourself or others as a victim gives you complete immunity and frees you from any responsibility for the consequences of your
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by obscurette 1mo ago
Do you think people behind DeepSeek don't have their own interests? And people/parties controlling people behind DeepSeek?
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by obscurette 1mo ago
64 year old nerd with social phobias here. When I was in school, I had to practice oral knowledge tests since grade one. I had my first oral exam in grade six (math) and 2-3 oral exams every year since then. If I hadn't had that experi
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Mastermind of a US Telemedicine Scam Is Enjoying the Luxury Life in Russia(istories.media)
3 points by obscurette 1mo ago|0 comments
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by obscurette 2mo ago
This is especially relevant today where there are thousands of attempts to create AI "voice to text" apps to automate away "boring" note taking. My daughter working in medical field says that she is contacted at least on
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by obscurette 2mo ago
I grew up and went into school in seventies in Soviet Union. I remember myself discovering local libraries, bookstores etc. I still love books, I have a lot of them, but process of discovery is very different. When I was young almost every
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by obscurette 2mo ago
It's a pattern much wider than Google or event technology sector. It's very apparent in AI craze trough society, public governance sector, journalism etc. For people like me (growing up in seventies) it seems that there is teenage
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by obscurette 2mo ago
This. And I blame schools. People like to rage about kids reading a lot more books in the past, but I don't think that's was the main contributor. I went to school in seventies and if I look at my pupils now, there is no huge diff
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by obscurette 2mo ago
Being close relative for several med and care workers we have discussed it a lot and consensus is that it really depends. For example relying on LLM summaries sounds great until it doesn't. It doesn't matter whether you misunderst
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Books that are just right for children might not be the best approach to learn(theconversation.com)
2 points by obscurette 2mo ago|0 comments
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by obscurette 2mo ago
Only with final answer, if you have to round etc. With slide rulers and tables you had to think about it with every step, where to put your decimal separator etc.
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by obscurette 2mo ago
> calculators didn't make us dumber I think that most of people misunderstand what calculator changed. Calculator didn't replace people doing math, calculator replaced mathematical tables, slide rulers and other already existin
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by obscurette 2mo ago
I had a discussion regarding this some time ago with my grandchild who has an ADHD diagnosis. She has troubles being in noisy (especially visually) environments, yet she finds my home (relatively large home full of books, music always playi
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What Makes Humans Stupid(nautil.us)
3 points by obscurette 2mo ago|0 comments
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by obscurette 3mo ago
For the record – nope, there is no real plans, it's a pure PR stunt. https://news.err.ee/1610065480/peeter-p-motskula-ai-agents-n...
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by obscurette 3mo ago
Good point. As a former highschool teacher, I tend to think on this (K12 in US terms?) level, but of course universal higher education wouldn't work. Some comments though. In my experience this point in life when people will figure out
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by obscurette 3mo ago
Yes. And that's why universal education has been success and why a modern idea of education – "let's find out everyone individual needs are, adjust to these, show how cool it is to think critically etc" – is such a disas
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by obscurette 3mo ago
> Universal, mandatory education rarely achieves this attitude. As a former teacher I think that's very common, but a fatal error to assume that it's something that it's up to education to achieve this at all. It's up
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by obscurette 3mo ago
This might signal a different story than just "badly". Estonia might flex with their 2% in this article, but as I understand their current situation – too many students fail much earlier in there. About 25% don't reach mininu
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by obscurette 3mo ago
https://archive.is/uDREn
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I went to uni to learn. What I discovered has made me angry and terrified(smh.com.au)
4 points by obscurette 3mo ago|6 comments
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The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education(cepr.org)
4 points by obscurette 3mo ago|1 comments
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The EU CHIPS Act Is a Failure [video](youtube.com)
3 points by obscurette 3mo ago|1 comments
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by obscurette 3mo ago
Being forced to interact with people you haven't chosen to socialize is good for your mental health and for society. People interacting with different people are less afraid of the world, more trusting etc. Clustering into echochambers
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by obscurette 3mo ago
Years ago a small telco I worked for bought an equipment from rather reputable manufacturer at some point. A year or so later we discovered a grave bug in the software. There was a month or so silence from manufacturer and they just bought
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by obscurette 3mo ago
Education system has already lost and it happened before AI. The problem is that reasoning requires a very good literacy skills and these require a lot of practice to develop, but we stopped forcing students to practice this quite some time

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