alt Hacker Newswhat is the point of teaching anyway when fundational knowledge are becoming obsolete?
i think what should be taught is the metacognative ability - like how to retrieve knowledge, how to ask the right questions towards a certain goal. knowledge itself are easily accessible with ai. now the difficult part is the ability to discern actual knowledge from llm halucination bs, the ability to retrieve the required knowledge given a scenario.
this still requires some foundational grounding — you can't detect bullshit with zero context. but the balance shifts from memorization to retrieval, iteration, verification. honestly i think it is more about critical thinking and philosophy.
> what is the point of teaching anyway when fundational knowledge are becoming obsolete?
1. It isn't
2. As you acknowledge, you need some 'foundational grounding', but the amount needed is quite a lot
3. The best way to teach metacognitive (and all other) skills is within a context
> the balance shifts from memorization to retrieval, iteration, verification
This has been trumpeted with every poorly-thought-out educational change, and it's a marker of unfamiliarity with the space. Memorisation hasn't been the focus ever; it's always about the other skills, and (some) memorisation is useful as part of that.