Kids learn some language on Duo and math on Khan. It is absolutely not the same as being in a class, but it isn't nothing. But what teachers seem to never want to acknowledge is that school is also childcare. Society basically collapsed w/o in person classes during Covid, and AI can never replace it
Teachers as a whole readily acknowledge that their work has a childcare component to it. Obviously teachers know that students do learn some things on Duo, Khan, or even iReady for that matter. They're tools, that work when guided by a teacher.
Society didn't 'collapse' during the pandemic - it was _collapsed_, in order to reduce the rampaging of a deadly pathogen. Letting children spread diseases to each other and their families and teachers was worse. Masks helped, as well as vaccines; closing schools was a tactic.
So-called "A.I." - Large-Language Models - are mostly meant to allow the further disadvantaging of working class people to improve the profits of tech. I don't doubt the technology might have some uses, but not how it is being used now, with its theft of data for training and high energy use.
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