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Re:My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I by trhway on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @04:32PM (#24215992)
so, who is up for a startup - an AI-agent as a teacher, each child gets his own teacher, or several simultaneously, basically personalized Muppet show guiding the child through the intricacies of 1+1=2 and how to write "mom".

For the older students - some FPS (multi-played by the whole class or school against school) with math and other problems to unlock new more powerful weapons/etc. should work too - anybody who didn't do the homework and thus fails to solve the problems fast naturally becomes a bad teammate and the peer pressure is the king at that age.

Re:My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I by tsimionescu on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @04:46PM (#24216197)
Oh sure, we'll just get some AI capable of teaching children, I'm sure GPT-3 with a little prompting is more than enough for that.

And of course, what else could maths education value other than speed of figuring out problems? After all, Cauchy was famed as the fastest differentiator in the west, wasn't he?

Re:My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I by olyjohn on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @05:03PM (#24216429)
Not sure if serious...
Re:My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I by throwaway45349 on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @07:45PM (#24218221)
Lol if you think kids will peer pressure other kids into doing their "FPS maths homework" then you're seriously out of touch.