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Arizona School’s Curriculum Will Be Taught by AI, No Teachers (gizmodo.com)

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By a 4-3 margin, the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools on Monday approved an application from Unbound Academy to open a fully online school serving grades four through eight. Unbound already operates a private school that uses its AI-dependent “2hr Learning” model in Texas and is currently applying to open similar schools in Arkansas and Utah.

Under the 2hr Learning model, students spend just two hours a day using personalized learning programs from companies like IXL and Khan Academy. “As students work through lessons on subjects like math, reading, and science, the AI system will analyze their responses, time spent on tasks, and even emotional cues to optimize the difficulty and presentation of content,” according to Unbound’s charter school application in Arizona. “This ensures that each student is consistently challenged at their optimal level, preventing boredom or frustration.”

Spending less time on traditional curriculum frees up the rest of students’ days for life-skill workshops that cover “financial literacy, public speaking, goal setting, entrepreneurship, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving,” according to the Arizona application.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Problem is that yes they will probably do that and get away with it and a bunch of kids get to have a bunch of fun .... learn very little other than how to cheat and get by and they get a passing grade and go through school learning nothing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

To be fair, the kids smart enough to cheat it would have, most likely, learned nothing in regular school as well

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Believe it or not if a teacher is effective people actually want to learn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

But everyone just remembers that one awful teacher and not the dozens of normal teachers doing a normal amount of work, because not every moment in live is world defining.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

It doesn't matter how smart you (think you) are if you're not educated. It's possible to educate yourself, but unlikely for the vast majority of people. If you were a smart slacker, you wouldn't be one of those teaching yourself "boring" topics, whether that's trigonometry or history. You could barely motivate yourself to open your mouth while being spoon fed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

So they will run for office in Arizona.