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

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I can see this being the future...since they voted for it and all.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 days ago (3 children)

lol those kids are fucked

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Maybe. Let's see how it pans out.

(they are)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

yeah but the white ones will be able to vote

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I can't wait for the generation who believes that the War of 1812 was won by the French.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's already bad enough that many American believe that war was started by foreign invaders and that it ended in a resounding victory for the US.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Strategically, it was a long term victory for the US, but yeah, there's a lot of misconceptions about it already.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Good song tho

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Charter schools, lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Drone strikes.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

I don't get the panic. It worked great for 50% of Venture brothers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago

This is some serious bullshit. I don't have the time or energy to say more right now.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

And by "AI" they'll just have the kids solve captchas for 2 hours.

"Which one of these pictures is Jesus?" with pictures of:

Bacon

Swastika

AR15

Trump

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Damn it. Gonna have to be bacon, curse my carbon footprint

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Online charter schools are horrifying. There is no expectation that the teacher know or understand the material they are teaching your child. High school is basically working through an online work book by yourself. Teachers use AI to “look up” answers they don’t know yourself.

It’s hell.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

But this doesn't sound like that. This sounds like a model that is using external tools made by humans like Khan Academy to actually do the teaching and just uses the AI model to process how well the person doing the course is understanding it.

I would be willing to bet serious money that a kid in this program would get a better education than a homeschooler, Because exactly like your earlier point, the vast majority of homeschool parents that teach their kids are fucking morons and only have their kids homeschooled because they're fucking morons.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Today we will learn how to make a pie:

Gather ingredients:

Flour
Eggs
Water
10 pounds of dog shit
10 gallons of cat urine

Cooking Process:

Step 1: Mix all ingredients and place in a pan
Step 2: Add Gasoline
Step 3: Bake at 9000° Celsius for 12 hours
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thank you for this delicious recipe! My great aunt used to make this all the time for our ritual house painting and it always brought joy to the children. Try adding cinnamon or thumbtacks to the pie for extra zing! God bless!!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

This recipe is garbage... I didn't have any eggs, so I used olive oil. I also didn't have an oven, so I put it all in my freezer overnight. It tasted terrible, although my 2yo liked it. My MIL told my wife to divorce me. 0/5 stars

not quite on-topic, but I hate online recipe sites/comments too

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

“Time for home economics! Today we learn to make pizza. Be sure to use plenty of glue on the dough so the cheese doesn’t slide off!”

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 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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