FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF
THANKS VERY COOL GOOGLE I'LL JUST LET THE PLAGIARISM MACHINE THAT TELLS PEOPLE TO EAT GLUE AND BURNS DOWN THE RAINFOREST TO DESIGN MY CURRICULUM
ACTUALLY WE PROBABLY DON'T EVEN NEED TEACHERS WHEN WE CAN JUST SIT STUDENTS DOWN IN FRONT OF A CHROMEBOOK AND FEED THEM AI SLOP ALL DAY AND THEN THEY CAN USE AI TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAs a teacher, the only things I've found AI to be useful are:
Boy do I have some news for you: https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/ai-may-be-coming-for-standardized-testing/2024/03
"This could be a step towards figuring out how AI can help educators achieve a long-elusive goal: Creating a new breed of assessments that actually helps inform teaching and learning in real time, he said."
I was looking into becoming a high school math teacher and the curriculum here for math is so overspecified that I can't imagine ever having to plan a lesson.
Yeah as a former teacher I can imagine ai at actually being useful for putting together some slop for admins to use since they made us produce class scripts every day to submit to school admin that never actually read it, adding like an additional 8 hours of work every week on top of the 80 hours I was already working. Maybe use AI for that and then teach what you wanted to teach.
"Give me ten ideas for X". Example: "give me twenty fun ideas for finishing a lesson on volcanos for 13 year olds". Maybe one of those ideas is good and I can adapt it.
This would have been so much more useful than the solution my boss and coteacher gave when i said I didnt know how to come up with ideas for activities at the old after school program which was "just go on pinterest" which was WAAAAAAY to broad of an answer lmao. OK go on pinterest and start... where?
"The treat printer costs X amount of water, Y amount of pollution allotment, and Z amount of rainforest. How much of your future did I throw away to have googleAI make this question for you?"
Hey teachers you know that thing you're telling all your students off for using and has been actively ruining your ability to teach because students that use AI to do work don't actually learn anything? You should use that thing already ruining education to plan your lessons!
I hate AI getting shoved into everything.
I use JetBrains Rider to code hobbyist shit and after the most recent update, it started doing this extremely aggressive (and WRONG) code generation that was far more distracting than it could ever be helpful. Well, it can't be AI, because when they added AI I immediately took all steps to disable it.
Wrong! They added more AI. As a new plugin. Had to disable it as well. Like a fucking virus.
And its like... okay maybe I should stop using Rider? So I can just go checks notes use an IDE from a company that has an even bigger stake in AI (Microsoft).
If we have the teachers use AI and the students use AI then the AI can talk to the AI and we can finally get on with our lives.
I don't teach K-12, but isn't the main challenge not lesson planning, but like a lot of crowd control. At least like K-9 I imagine it's a nightmare just keeping kids seated and paying attention.
Nope, the classroom part is easy. Even if the kids are annoying, most of them will learn. But most importantly the amount of energy you can spend in each class is capped. It is, at worst, 45 minutes of walking and yelling. And admin very rarely watches the classes. They are out of their element in the classes. They just want to see the lesson plans and their expectations for those lesson plans are infinite and bizarre, 6+ pages per 45 minute class, timed to the minute, all content squeezed into a spreadsheet where most columns only have one word and one column has paragraphs, mandatory template looks like shit so they always have something to complain about.
That's sounds maddening, I go through about a page per 10 mins of lecture time at the college level and that obviously moves through at a faster pace.
Your mileage may vary, but lesson plans ARE classroom management. Yes I've seen classrooms that absolutely refuse to learn or do any work, but most classes will do work if it's engaging. Engaged classes manage themselves. If they have no interest in doing their work or the work is too easy for them or the work is so hard they can't even start it, then they start distracting themselves and others.
Any support or materials that can be offered to teachers make their lives easier and then they can tailor it to their class.
Using the internet to find resources is hard too because so many sites are paywalled. I somehow doubt that "teachers pay teachers" actually gives much money to teachers.
The fact that TPT exists in the way that it does is baffling. We spend so much on education, the federal government or a large state could just buy TPT, run it at cost. New teachers are swamped by the need to develop a curriculum, lesson plans, and make materials and those are all things a government would be good at providing. Why does every teacher need to reinvent the wheel.
they keep trying to shove it down my throat, too, and I'm just doing small engine repair paperwork
your stupid fucking AI can't respond to Farmer Jane about her Gravely's weird intermittent electrical problem, stop offering to "help"
Try it for free!
guess "free" is the new term for the low low price of trading hours of my time and frustration for some asshole's training algorithms. what a deal! 🤩
Speed running the collapse
Someone should be in prison for having this idea.
AI, how comes it here? What madness or devilry is this? Death, death, death! Death take us all!
I've had some luck using geerative AI in exactly one situation, which is with kids with such severe reading/writing difficulties that getting them to attempt to write a prompt of any kind is a victory in itself. The charm wears off pretty quickly, but it can be used to get them to write a few single words. That is enough utility to justify a nation spending hundreds - or maybe even thousands - of dollars on the technology.
I hate how crazy I feel for caring about everything
Regenerative AI
there's a reason, it's the same reason everything always gets worse everywhere over time
the falling rate of profit. AI is the new moonshot where potential profit can still be generated (since it's a giant speculative money pit).
ibred AI
Google is so bad now that I set my default search to fucking BING
Google has become unfathomably bad, it gives me the wrong answer consistently. OTOH Bing doesn’t even register the keywords of my search
In "News" google used to have a "blogs" link. I really like blogs so I used to use that. But google removed it years ago. Then google started helping me I put "blog" in double quotes. Google gave me fewer and fewer blogs results. To fill the void I still got non-blog top sites like Quora and Reddit.
A few days ago I did a test and I learned that google will actively block my efforts to avoid crap if I add "blog" or "blogger" or "wordpress" to my search. I did three test searches - one for each word - and I only got one blog post result after all that effort. And the blog post smelled to high heaven of spam.
And the search results are even worse than when it was all SEO somehow.
If you're on firefox, get the plugin "Google search engine with udm=14 preset" and set your search engine to that new version of google. It'll automatically switch to "web" results, which removes all the AI garbage.
Alternatively, it seems like you can append "-ai" to any search and it won't show it. No idea if its still running the AI in the background though.
And the search results are all people trying to sell you crap.