alt Hacker NewsThis honestly seems like a flawed approach. Kids don't show up in the first grade, or the sixth, 9th, or really 12th, as the initiators of their educational journey.
An AI-based education system should have embedded in it "I am here to teach this person Geometry. Here is a list of the topics to cover, with a breakdown of steps for each including an intro section, a study section, a test section, and the meta material to go along with it.
That would work.
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Best comment in this thread. An AI-based education system as you described, would deploy the _technique_ the KA bot is built around, sparingly and at narrow times, to deliver a lesson to great effect.
The poor engagement of the KA bot becomes clear--a teaching technique in not an education system.
I agree. I just can’t understand how people who work in education seem to be incapable of learning anything about education! They couldn’t have predicted that just having the most amazing tutor in the world available all the time just wouldn’t make any difference?? Students don’t go to school because they’re eager to learn. Don’t they know this? I think an effective tutor must be human or at least a human who can use the AI tutor on behalf of the child, which means the parent. Because your job as a tutor is not just spill knowledge, it’s to keep the student engaged ( just awake may be a challenge ) and make sure they are doing what they are supposed to.