cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1377962/no-ai-until-high-school-nyc-schools-announce-major-classroom-technology-overhaul
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar H. Samuels today announced a moratorium on student-facing generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) use in schools, alongside a new screen time policy, a decision that will impact nearly 600,000 public school students, or two-thirds of the system’s total enrollment. The policy establishes a one-year moratorium, effective in the 2026-2027 school year, on student-facing generative AI for children in 2-K through 8th grade. It also introduces twice-yearly AI critical thinking modules for high schoolers, limited AI pilots for a small number of high school classrooms and age-appropriate screen time restrictions.
I can confidently say that if we had tablets or laptops in school before high school, we’d absolutely fuck off with them and mess around. Even back then when we’d go to the computer lab, a lot of people would just fuck around rather than play Type to Learn lol
Not sure what your point is as my comment is about students and learning from AI. Not about tablets and laptops.
And how do you think AI is interacted with? On what device?
Gotcha so you’re not disagreeing with any of the points I actually made about how AI can help individualize learning. Just that kids shouldn’t be on computers or tablets in school.
Well, I don’t have anything to say about that as my kid has a chromebook and outside or using it for certain homework assignments, I don’t think he uses it to learn. If he had some AI software on there designed for him to learn, I bet he’d get much more use out of it.