What changes to you foresee post-Covid? Both good and bad.

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No A-F grades. It is a little more helpful imo. She is really really smart so for her the learning curve is easy (I credit Upstart computer program for this). She is an amazing reader. They were having her leave her 1st grade classroom to go to a 4th grade classroom for reading.
She is also way above her classmates in math. We have been referred to move her to a different school next year that is for gifted students. They also have an accelerated class thing at her current school that they recommended. We are undecided at this point but are leaning to keeping her in her current school which we like.

That’s awesome! Smart kid, must take after her parents!

 

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That’s awesome! Smart kid, must take after her parents!

Eh, probably her mom.

 

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I think reading for pleasure only happens if there isn't some stimulus to provide the same or more pleasure at less of a cost (e.g. time spent, effort, etc.). So the smart phone is the reason children don't read any more. Same stimulation, or better, with zero effort and at any time for any small piece of time they have available. TikTok is the worst. You can fill any 30 second span with a tiktok. It is literally rotting brains, and there is scientific evidence that is true. Scary as **** if you ask me. I even have to force myself to drop the cell phone for 2 hours before I go to bed. The addiction factor is on par with illicit drugs. Meth and heroin got nothing on facebook, twitter, and tiktok. Huge bane on society.

This so much.

It’s destroying attention spans and ruining critical thinking. One of my major issues with AI (and I know we can’t put it back into the bottle, I get it) is that it’ll ruin the long tedious but necessary process of thinking about a subject, formulating pts, and presenting them in a coherent way. That process will be lost.

So will teachers see better writing? Absolutely, they’re going to see better writing (from the AI). But getting students to turn in writing projects isn’t the pt. The point is getting them to engage. getting them to think. Getting them to formulate arguments and write them down. That entire process will be lost.

 

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Clearly that is not true or NEAP wouldn't have been tracking it.

I would think that they might track anything that helps educational achievement. Eating breakfast is not a learning habit, but it helps people learn, so many districts offer breakfasts to kids who need them.

I know that is what teacher's unions wanted to believe but the damage done has large and lasting impacts as evidenced in the NEAP report.

I will wait for you to connect the covid19 response to reading for pleasure in a meaningful way. Just making a declaration is not meaningful.

 

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I think reading for pleasure only happens if there isn't some stimulus to provide the same or more pleasure at less of a cost (e.g. time spent, effort, etc.). So the smart phone is the reason children don't read any more. Same stimulation, or better, with zero effort and at any time for any small piece of time they have available. TikTok is the worst. You can fill any 30 second span with a tiktok. It is literally rotting brains, and there is scientific evidence that is true. Scary as **** if you ask me. I even have to force myself to drop the cell phone for 2 hours before I go to bed. The addiction factor is on par with illicit drugs. Meth and heroin got nothing on facebook, twitter, and tiktok. Huge bane on society.

I blame the teachers' unions for the prevalence of TikTok.