Under AI’s Watchful Eye, China Wants to Raise Smarter Students (2019) [video]

Re:Under AI’s Watchful Eye, China Wants to Raise Smarter Stu... by malux85 on Saturday May 16, 2020 @07:48AM (#23202648)

I’m similar to you - autodidact, poor in school, successful later - and I think it depends how the A.I. is implemented.

My observation of school was that the ratio of 1 teacher to 25 students (who all have different learning speeds) means that the teacher is optimally teaching only a fraction of the kids, the rest at each side are overwhelmed or bored.

If the AI is able to help the slower students and stimulate the brighter ones, then I think that would have taken away a lot of the boredom for me and made it a much better experience

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Re:Under AI’s Watchful Eye, China Wants to Raise Smarter Stu... by javajosh on Saturday May 16, 2020 @07:52AM (#23202669)

>the ratio of 1 teacher to 25

As an aside, I've often wondered if it's not class size that's the issue, but conflicting ability and personality types. Things like the GATE program grouped high ability kids, but personality matters and it would be interesting to match students together and with a compatible teacher. Of course, this might fail spectacularly as one of the benefits of diversity is getting other perspectives, and learning empathy. But I think it would be an interesting experiment, especially in a class like math.

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Re:Under AI’s Watchful Eye, China Wants to Raise Smarter Stu... by plafl on Sunday May 17, 2020 @08:20AM (#23211448)

Class size impacts at all levels up to college. I think teachers will be the first to acknowledge that they enjoy classes with a a dozen or less students.

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