A private elementary school in Brownsville, TX is using AI to teach core subjects. There are no teachers. Instead they have "guides".

2 hours a day.

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The days of dodging class or suffering from a lack of motivation appear to be a thing of the past at Alpha School, a private pre-K through eighth grade institution that utilizes personalized artificial intelligence to teach an entire day of core academic lessons in just two hours.

The tech-savvy students then spend their afternoons working on non-academic critical life skills like public speaking, financial literacy or even how to ride a bike. Staff known here as "guides" rather than teachers say they strive to facilitate a sense of independence into each child while overseeing a supportive, nurturing environment like any attentive teacher in any solid school district in America.

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Seems many students are Space X employee kids. Makes no mention if Elon is supporting the school.

Interestingly, it was started by an Austin Mom. I'd like to follow the money behind her.

With the amount of money going into AI and "Educational Services" vendors, wide scale public school privatization is on the table...

https://www.newsweek.com/alpha-school-brownsville-ai-expanding-2063669

This can't be done. The AI engine doesn't have a teacher's certificate.

The teachers and their families are desperately fighting tooth and nail against school choice. What will they do here?!

Logos Stick said:

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This can't be done. The AI engine doesn't have a teacher's certificate.

The teachers and their families are desperately fighting tooth and nail against school choice. What will they do here?!

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It's private

Welp, Given a choice between:
1) 20 - 30 students with mis-matched abilities, some with limited English proficiency, "individual plans" that can sidetrack the entire class

2) and AI


I know what I would choose, and this (AI) makes home schooling even more attainable.

Tanya 93 said:

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Logos Stick said:

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This can't be done. The AI engine doesn't have a teacher's certificate.

The teachers and their families are desperately fighting tooth and nail against school choice. What will they do here?!

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It's private

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You don't think AI is coming to public schools?!

That sounds pretty good if the entire process works like it is described.

Logos Stick said:

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Tanya 93 said:

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Logos Stick said:

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This can't be done. The AI engine doesn't have a teacher's certificate.

The teachers and their families are desperately fighting tooth and nail against school choice. What will they do here?!

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It's private

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You don't think AI is coming to public schools?!

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Probably
But football is also at public and private schools.

So...

Reality has jumped the Black Mirror Shark

AI can never replace real teachers. Unless, they write code for it to learn how to diddle students.

Tanya 93 said:

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Tanya 93 said:

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Logos Stick said:

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This can't be done. The AI engine doesn't have a teacher's certificate.

The teachers and their families are desperately fighting tooth and nail against school choice. What will they do here?!

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It's private

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You don't think AI is coming to public schools?!

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Probably
But football is also at public and private schools.

So...

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Football creates jobs. AI kills them.

Logos Stick said:

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Tanya 93 said:

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Logos Stick said:

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Tanya 93 said:

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Logos Stick said:

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This can't be done. The AI engine doesn't have a teacher's certificate.

The teachers and their families are desperately fighting tooth and nail against school choice. What will they do here?!

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It's private

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You don't think AI is coming to public schools?!

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Probably
But football is also at public and private schools.

So...

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Football creates jobs. AI kills them.

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When are you getting your certification to teach HS math or science?

Separating human interaction from the learning process is a bad idea. Part of school is about learning how to be taught by someone else. An AI bot that spits out textbook answers and corrects math problems doesn't have the interpersonal depth and emotion to resonate with students. These kids are going to grow up socially stunted because the wont be able to interpret information from authority figures without being spoon fed every detail from AI.

DarkBrandon01 said:

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Separating human interaction from the learning process is a bad idea. Part of school is about learning how to be taught by someone else. An AI bot that spits out textbook answers and corrects math problems doesn't have the interpersonal depth and emotion to resonate with students. These kids are going to grow up socially stunted because the wont be able to interpret information from authority figures without being spoon fed every detail from AI.

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This is stupid
The Demon Spawn does fine doing online learning for college credits.

Do you even have kids or have ever taught in a public school where whites are the minority?

DarkBrandon01 said:

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Separating human interaction from the learning process is a bad idea. Part of school is about learning how to be taught by someone else. An AI bot that spits out textbook answers and corrects math problems doesn't have the interpersonal depth and emotion to resonate with students. These kids are going to grow up socially stunted because the wont be able to interpret information from authority figures without being spoon fed every detail from AI.

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Tell me you didn't read the article w/o telling me you didn't read it.

Human positive practical guidance approach to an algorithm that individually tailors interest, instruction, reward and encouragement is the future.

Current generations are not capable to scale.

Maybe Gen Alpha can be w/ AI...

Tuition is like 40k

https://alpha.school/admission/

Teachers stopped being authority figures in many schools a generation ago. Their leadership (principals et al.) tend to care about 2 things: butts in the seats (for $$$) and no disturbances. Neither is conducive to teachers being authority figures - little ability to discipline, enforce classroom rules etc.

With AI, a moderately concerned parent can not only teach classes in much less time than most traditional classes, and really enforce discipline and greater learning. And more to the point, make the student discipline theirselves.

To Tanya's point, I think, I taught for a couple of years at a Dallas project school. There were 4 white kids in the whole school. I did SAT and PSAT prep before and after school, and there were kids who made great progress. Even Helped one get into a service academy and one into Wellsley (sic?). But the general quality of instruction, student learning expectations, and discipline was terrible. Depending on this faculty/administration to socialize students would have been a mistake. And that was going on 40 years ago.

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When are you getting your certification to teach HS math or science?

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We really don't need math and science certifications any more.

My kids learned more from YouTube vids that many of their certified math and science teachers assigned them.

Once they watched the vids, YouTube served them more content. That they often consumed on their own time.

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Teachers stopped being authority figures in many schools a generation ago. Their leadership (principals et al.) tend to care about 2 things: butts in the seats (for $$$) and no disturbances. Neither is conducive to teachers being authority figures - little ability to discipline, enforce classroom rules etc.

With AI, a moderately concerned parent can not only teach classes in much less time than most traditional classes, and really enforce discipline and greater learning. And more to the point, make the student discipline theirselves.

To Tanya's point, I think, I taught for a couple of years at a Dallas project school. There were 4 white kids in the whole school. I did SAT and PSAT prep before and after school, and there were kids who made great progress. Even Helped one get into a service academy and one into Wellsley (sic?). But the general quality of instruction, student learning expectations, and discipline was terrible. Depending on this faculty/administration to socialize students would have been a mistake. And that was going on 40 years ago.

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Principals also cared about standardized test scores. The ones I worked with didn't give an 'F' about discipline until the Associate Principal got arrested for "aggrevated assault."