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   Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 01:36:48 JST Cat Hicks

   It's so wild that in education right now there's a huge swirling conversation about how kids don't read enough or well enough and on the other hand that large blocks of text from "personalized tutors" are gonna be the interface that works

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 01:36:47 JST Cat Hicks

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     Personalization IS an interesting and useful idea (that's why.... We've cared about it.... For eons....) but it's actually SO funny to compare the types of "AI tutors" in classrooms to slowly generating textbooks and ask yourself if they share as many features with textbook learning as they do with anything else

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 01:36:47 JST Cat Hicks

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     *shrugs* sorry I'm not some edtech genius or an Ed thought leader I'm just a person who has sat elbow to elbow with a lot of kids (some of them yelling at me, or crying at devastating news about their test scores) and actually did tutoring, for free, for standardized tests, for years