I teach at a highly rated high school. I use AI to help me come up with ideas for lesson plans. I don't just accept it whole: even if I wanted to, AI lesson plans simply aren't coherent enough to actually use for an extended time.

As for the criticism that teachers use AI to make it, students use AI to do it, the process is a joke: it's two separate issues. Nobody cares how the teachers do it. We could use tarot cards, and if it made good lesson plans, hell yeah. The whole focus is on the students. Students need to know how to do the independent thinking on their own, or at least how to do the independent thinking with the assistance of an LLM (no teacher I know actually believes this, but I could see the argument being made).

And certainly every single teacher is aware that students can use AI to cheat. It's like at the forefront of teacher thought right now. I'm an English teacher using motherfucking blue books like it was 1987. Schools are all implementing paper tests, switch to in-class assignments only, weighting homework at 0% or nearby it because cheating on Homework has become trivial, etc.

Oh, finally, about AI grading. I'm sure it happens, but I've never heard of it happening. I guess I could see that for like a practice assignment? I don't think AI is trusted enough for students or parents to accept AI grading results, even if I wanted to do that.

Your argument is completely disingenuous. It actually weakens your argument, because if you had a good reason, you wouldn't be speaking obvious bullshit.

Every single person here knows that a car is generally used for normal, everyday stuff. Going to groceries, etc. If you see a car on a road, the chances are one in a million it's being currently used to commit a crime.

Likewise, every single person tech-literate enough to be on Slashdot knows this is used to store pirated media files, not your collections of homemade EDM or circa 1922 field recording.

Why BS? Why rely on an argument that everybody here knows isn't really true? Why not just call a spade a spade?

FreeRTOS?

Yeah, but Chromebooks are always 1:1 so students can do computers at home if they're sick/have homework/etc. Can't lock the network.

But then everything becomes test based. What about writing a long essay for english? A research paper for history class? A project for science class? A program for Computer Science?

Lockdown had negative effects on learning, but red states did not pull ahead of blue states (primarily because red states are poor and being rich matters more than schooling).

And it wasn't a two year blue state school lockdown. Schools closed in March 2020. Red States generally re-opened in September 2020 (next school year). Blue states re-opened in maybe March 2021 - second half of the next school year. I can't believe there was a single school district that didn't re-open until March 2022.

It's also difficult to say if it was specifically the school closures that hurt kids. Democrat kids are much more likely to live in cities or high-population suburbs, amongst a million other differences between red and blue states. Maybe the pandemic hits harder when you have to stay in your apartment complex vs. when you live outdoors more anyway.

The way teachers are dealing with this is by going entirely to in-class assignments done on paper and pencil. I'm Gen X and I didn't even turn in pen/paper big assignments, totally ridiculous. Nothing done at home or around a computer is to be trusted. And there is NOTHING to learn from teaching 3rd graders to be effective at using ChatGPT to do answers for them.

Giving the students the ability to cheat on their school computers seems backwards to me, but I guess when you can't trust anything that was possibly completed within range of a cell phone or computer, it doesn't really make any difference.

I'm also a big nerd. I believe in ChatGPT for certain uses. I've even tried to motivate my students to use it as a personal tutor. There is ZERO interest from students in doing this. Like, I specifically taught this in my class, and I believe 0 of my 150 students have gone on to use this on their own. I dunnow, maybe in the future it will change. B

Oculus sold 20 million Quest 2s. Obviously a lot are gathering dust, but the interest is there.

The technology is so fucking amazing. If you've used an Oculus, yes, you want one. You just want a better one. The technology just isn't there yet (for most people). Too heavy, graphics too primitive.

This product was marketed as a developer-only sort of deal, and the people buying it should have taken that marketing seriously.

This technology was pretty fucking impressive in 2002. I feel like in some alternate reality, people stop giving phone numbers and give each other skype addresses and that's what we 'd still all be doing. Way back in the day when I traveled a lot internationally for business, I had a phone line that forwarded to my skype account, and then I'd have my skype forward to my international phone # for like 2 cents a minute. Cool stuff.

Now that students are just giving AI generated answers, we might as well just give them ai generated lessons.

Deepseek still hasn't learned to keep it to ASCII.

New Delhi is very, very polluted. About 200 AQI, on average! Yeah, coal is a big part of it, but there's a lot of blame to go around.

Google says 33% of pollution there is from Internal Combustion Engines.

This isn't news-worthy, this is basically standard operating procedure for companies that have HR departments.

Rice bran contains six times the amount of arsenic as the rice. It's not a "solution," but not regularly eating brown rice or using rice bran in nutritional supplements is going alleviate the larger part of the problem.