alt Hacker NewsI think ai has revealed one of the biggest gaps in our education system: the majority of students don’t really care about knowledge-even when tested on it.
To give an example, I have a friend who learned system design through Claude in order to get a job interview (and he got really good at system design)while I have another friend who copies and paste ChatGPT responses in order to get a B on a reflection assignment.
This highlights that there is legit use case for personalized learning and growth via AI-but these are the people who seek knowledge with or without AI. Whereas the majority of students actively tries to do the least as possible on assignments even if they get 0 value out of it
Right. Most people are deeply uninterested in learning anything, not just in K-12, but at pretty good colleges like mine.
Modern AI has made me a more productive teacher—-I produce higher quality material and have more time for research.
But the impact on most students is negative. It is another thing to engage with, which they won’t unless forced. The only way to learn is to do the work yourself. An AI tutor can get you unstuck faster, but that’s typically bad. Learning to be productively stuck on something for days without making visible progress is an important skill that most people never learn.