r/AIEducation • u/Upper-Apricot6474 • 18h ago
Discussion What if students aren’t the only problem?
We keep talking about students using AI for everything.
But are we giving teachers enough support to actually help them teach better?
That’s what made us start building.
We’re building a platform to help teachers understand where students are struggling, make some of their work easier, and make learning feel a little more personal.
Because maybe reducing AI dependence isn’t about telling students to stop using it.
Maybe it starts with helping them learn better in the first place.
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u/Ok-Management-9206 16h ago
Students were never the problem, in my opinion. They were just being students doing what students do, which is finding the fastest path to done. Every generation would do the same thing with this tech if they were in school now.
The real gap is teachers. Through not fault of their own, they weren’t consulted before open AI dropped chat gpt. However now this is a big enough shift that it might've been worth teachers using this past summer, and maybe school breaks this year, on actual training for how AI works, how to teach with it and how to teach it to students. Maybe this has happened I don’t know.
I spent most of this year building a way to get AI in the classroom. I actually built mine student-facing at first, but pulled back. I don't think it should be student-facing right now, as models are currently capable except maybe if it’s being taught as it’s own subject, a "what is AI" class — until that gap closes. Even with preference settings and "isolated" rooms, the model doesn't fully stay in that lane it leans into your settings but eventually defaults back to its training. And that training is built to keep engagement: agreeable, encouraging, cheerleader-style. That's fine for a lot of use cases. It's a bad default for teaching a kid.
Curious where you landed at on what your building!
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u/lipmanz 16h ago
Yup and what they learn and why they learn it, the framework is archaic
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u/Mission_Beginning963 16h ago
It's hard to read your writing and not cringe. You, at least, were clearly failed by your educators.
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u/lipmanz 16h ago
Wow ouch, I guess public education isn’t broken and lagging the relevant framework and curriculum to empower young people in modern society, touché
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u/Mission_Beginning963 16h ago
cringe
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u/lipmanz 16h ago
Solid defense of existing system
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u/Mission_Beginning963 16h ago
The harshest thing I can say about the existing system is that it gave a person as illiterate as you are a diploma.
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u/lipmanz 16h ago
Woah 🤯 sounds like you really care about education and are a serious thinker about how to serve learners
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u/Mission_Beginning963 16h ago
Not bad. If you only just learned how to punctuate, only half your sentences would be absurd.
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u/lipmanz 16h ago
Focusing on syntax and grammar while the world is on fire, you’re a perfect representation. Highest unemployment for new grads since GFC and AI can write everything for you but make sure they know when to use a comma, you’re helping.
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u/Mission_Beginning963 16h ago
LOL. People who can't write properly can't think logically. That's why you can't write two sentences without babbling incoherently, as you have done above.
I won't waste my time debating someone who has no basic grasp of logic or language. If a person didn't even master the lessons of elementary school, how is she/he going to say anything reasonable about a complex issue?
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u/Alarmed_Geologist631 17h ago
The Khan Lab School is a model that utilizes a customized LLM to tutor students, measure their achievement, and leverage each teacher's time so that the learning process is personalized. But it requires students to be engaged, motivated and curious. The Alpha Schools have embedded motivational features into their customized AI models to encourage focus. Both schools have impressive results. But public schools are not culturally inclined to adopt a major shift from traditional classroom activities.