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Arizona School’s Curriculum Will Be Taught by AI, No Teachers (gizmodo.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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By a 4-3 margin, the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools on Monday approved an application from Unbound Academy to open a fully online school serving grades four through eight.  Unbound already operates a private school that uses its AI-dependent “2hr Learning” model in Texas and is currently applying to open similar schools in Arkansas and Utah.

Under the 2hr Learning model, students spend just two hours a day using personalized learning programs from companies like IXL and Khan Academy. “As students work through lessons on subjects like math, reading, and science, the AI system will analyze their responses, time spent on tasks, and even emotional cues to optimize the difficulty and presentation of content,” according to Unbound’s charter school application in Arizona. “This ensures that each student is consistently challenged at their optimal level, preventing boredom or frustration.”

Spending less time on traditional curriculum frees up the rest of students’ days for life-skill workshops that cover “financial literacy, public speaking, goal setting, entrepreneurship, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving,” according to the Arizona application.

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[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 197 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm sure an AI babysitter won't be immediately and utterly broken and bypassed by every single kid in these "classes".

(Seriously: we're talking about 8-12 year olds here and the absolutely are smart enough and incentivized to break the ever-loving crap out of this stupid idea.)

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 120 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

At that age I figured out that I could bypass the policy restrictions on my computer by unplugging the Ethernet cable right after login. Gave me full local admin.

A year or so prior to that I figured out that if you viewed IE's temporary internet files and just backspaced your way up, you can access the otherwise restricted C:, where I found other kids had already installed games onto.

No way this works for a full school year.

[–] quixotic120@lemmy.world 51 points 3 weeks ago

I’m old so things were easier but I remember in my middle school days I figured out you could bypass the schools content filter by using babelfish to translate the page from English to English in like 1998. Somehow accidentally stumbled across the concept of a proxy

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A year or so prior to that I figured out that if you viewed IE's temporary internet files and just backspaced your way up, you can access the otherwise restricted C:\

Public library Halo classic… good old days

Library software today can be wayyyyy better and lock down all the old tricks. Gotta count on the kids to keep cat ‘n’ mousing for their generation.

[–] KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A few of my friends and myself ended up with the network admin password, so we had full administrative access to every computer. Ah, the good old days.

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

daaang, I completely forgot about when the Novell NetWare administrator forgot to purge the account management tool in the temp folder. I found it and was able to give myself network admin priv.

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly that seems like its going to be a valuable set of skills to develop.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"Bamboozling corpo AI 101"

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

In 20 years the gen alphas are walking around getting double Human Chow rations for no reason and not even fulfilling their work quotas. Then, when the Overseers come to discipline then there are these weird pulses of light and the drones wander off mumbling about how, as a large language model, they have no opinion about that topic. We beg them for help, or maybe some left over kibble, but those stupid kids just laugh and say "OK Xers".

[–] flameguy21@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

When I was in school, someone figured out that if you go into Google Translate and type in a link, you could go to whatever website you wanted. We also figured out that despite Google Images being blocked, you could just click on the images tab of Google search and use it that way. Even the teachers told us about that one lol.