/sci/ - Science & Math

You've obviously never worked with kids. If you just had a computer telling them to do shit they would say "fuck this" after a week and just make fart noises and run in circles. One of the big reasons for a teacher is to stop the kids from acting like retarded faggots, and it barely works.

>Socratic method isn't the best form of teaching

>>3826750
Samefag here, missed that last bit

Are you saying students would be BETTER OFF if they didn't interact with other kids their age at school? They would end up socially retarded and emotionally stunted. Every home schooled person I've met has had seriously fucked up interpersonal skills. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.

Generations, I imagine. I expect partial AI integration into the learning experience within 100 years, with human teachers trained mostly in behavioral sciences (learning how to motivate and mediate) with a background of fundamental knowledge in other areas of study. Teachers will mostly be wranglers and therapists, focusing more on helping kids develop healthy social and emotional skills rather than making sure everyone can spell "chrysalis". They'll also help more with subjective, interpretive areas of study like philosophy and literature, which require more fluid, loose thought.

AI will be interactive encyclopediae, with completely accurate repositories of data, hopefully helping to sift out faulty preconceptions about science, math, history, etc.

>>3826759
What's sadder though. A kid with fully realized academic potential yet slightly awkward social skills. Or a kid that had very high potential only to have it ruined by a shitty system and tall poppy syndrome.

>>3826813
>virtual reality
>stunted social growth

trolololo

>>3826813
He doesn't mean minor social awkwardness, we're talking serious social debilitation. This is the kind of thing that leads to problems empathizing, socializing, and understanding. Imagine an entire school system filled with engineering majors.

>>3826845
>Imagine an entire school system filled with engineering majors.

>>3826797

Is that really a good idea? Humans are not perfectly rational blank slates. They are primates with millions of years worth of instinct. That instinct predisposes them to learn by example from their elders. An encyclopædia may not engage them.

>>3826856
No, it's functional, but everyone's an asshole, and no one's interested in anything that doesn't optimize your character's profitability.

>>3826856
>Imagine no music, happiness or non-battered women in the world.

>>3826864
The idea is that the encyclopedia would be a blend of interactivity and observability. We're talking a program that could pass a fairly serious and involved Turing Test.

For example, it could explain long division, do an example problem, and then everyone in class would repeat a similar set of problems (of course, every student gets a different set, so imitation doesn't do the work for them). They hand it in and receive immediate feedback on what they may have done wrong. What would once mean a night of homework and another hour for the teacher to grade becomes a five to ten minute exercise that the class can repeat or skip as necessary. Individual students can progress at different rates, so no more holding the smart kids back or pushing the slower learners forward. And all the while students are learning this, they also engage in human contact with an adult whose purpose is geared wholly towards filling in the gaps that the AI can't replicate on its own.

Khan Academy already accomplishes that pretty well. Probably less than a decade until education can be entirely interactive and AI driven.

>>3827357
>implying major social change on the level of completely redesigning an ancient and bloated bureaucratic happens in the span of only 10 years

I bet you believe in the singularity too. There's being optimistic and then there's just being stupid.