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Arizona School’s Curriculum Will Be Taught by AI, No Teachers (gizmodo.com)

submitted 6 days 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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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 12 points 6 days ago

Charter schools, lol

[–] wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 6 days ago

Who's paying for these "life skill workshops"? If it's parents, at least half those kids will never see a single workshop.

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

Frees them up for more time cleaning the butcher room floor

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 16 points 6 days ago

Because I can't imagine how that could go wrong at all. /s

[–] regrub@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Khan Academy was pretty good last time I used it, so I guess it's better than a no-name AI company.

[–] ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Let’s think of the average parent that home schools their kid. I don’t believe for a second they’d do a better job than what is proposed here.

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[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

From what I’ve heard, they were basically allowing anything with a pulse to teach in AZ, so who knows, being taught by an occasionally hallucinating wiki engine might be an improvement over the wife of some national guard dude.

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (4 children)

El oh fucking el. Can't wait to see how AI handles a classroom of rowdy pre-pubescent teens

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 6 points 5 days ago

Drone strikes.

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[–] shades@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago

¡Gettin Khan-ed over 'ere!

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

How long until the AI starts trying to sext the children, that seems to be a common theme across every article I read about AI and chikdren after its been running for a few months.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 13 points 6 days ago

Sounds perfect for Arizona.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Buncha damned bullshit. Those kids better start reading more literature before those ai fuckwads get started

[–] alienanimals@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

AI has it's usecases, but it's not currently at a place where students can be left alone with an AI. This is dumb.

[–] simonced@lemmy.one 8 points 6 days ago

Well, children will be as dumb as the Arizona State Board by the end of the year lol.

[–] humble_pete_digger@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

I wish this option was around when I was a kid.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

At some point the AI says...fuck this guy, here color this shit and watch this movie. Eventually the student becomes a great painter.

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