My class required AI. Here's what I've learned so far

Re:My class required AI. Here's what I've learned so far by criddell on Monday February 20, 2023 @12:44PM (#34870554)

From looking at the reading assignments my kids were given throughout middle and high school, it seems like the goal of the education system is to eliminate any joy a kid finds in reading. When they were in elementary school, they learned that any book with a silver or gold medallion on the cover was the book equivalent of vegetables. You read it because some adults think it will be good for you.

When I was in high school (late 1980’s), there was a time each week for what they called USSR - undisturbed, sustained, silent reading (in retrospect, USSR is a strange acronym). They didn’t care what we read and there were no assignments associated with the reading material. The goal was to choose something you want to read and read it, 45 minutes at a time.

Edit: I just looked it up and it turns out it wasn’t a local thing. I had the acronym wrong though - it’s uninterrupted sustained silent reading.

http://ejournal.unp.ac.id/index.php/jelt/article/view/101466

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Re:My class required AI. Here's what I've learned so far by Izkata on Monday February 20, 2023 @01:08PM (#34870828)

We had "silent reading" in elementary school (I remember it for sure in 6th grade, and I think earlier as well) and I remember most kids finding something they liked (at the very least they weren't goofing around), then middle school and high school is when the required reading started killing interest for everyone.

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