It’s funny seeing them lamenting the loss of sharing memes on discord as a kind of necessary socialization, given that there was no equivalent when I was a kid. We didn’t even have cell phones to text with.

My partner is a high school teacher, and it’s clear that schools have no idea how to handle LLMs, how to teach around their use (like we have with calculators), or how to disincentivize their use. Most admins are banning laptops in classrooms, but that doesn’t solve homework, and most schools are too invested in the homework model (no matter how much evidence shows it’s not good) to change.

The root cause is ultimately that kids don’t feel any incentive to ensure they understand the material, and there’s a whole show of reasons for that which go beyond kids just not caring about learning in general. We allowed schools to become a daycare system (I’ve been saying it for years, but covid finally proved it when politicians explicitly called for reopening schools so parents could work) that focuses on attendance (federal money) and test scores (state funding decisions) over actual learning.

has also led students to focus on external results at the expense of internal growth

The real problem.

Education MUST advocate and educate for and through self-growth, must do so to make use of self interest and curiosity.

The ordeal may also be a further divisive factor in effective education between children who’s parents are capable and supportive/invested vs those not. Widening social chances and fairness.

In higher education it’s always been about own interest and responsibility. The lack of deliberate and explicit making conscious may be a chance. But will be significantly hampered as long as children grow up without it before.

A systematic transformation will take a long time… If it ever happens… Not because of capability though.