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By a 4-3 margin, the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools on Monday approved an application from Unbound Academy to open a fully online school serving grades four through eight.  Unbound already operates a private school that uses its AI-dependent “2hr Learning” model in Texas and is currently applying to open similar schools in Arkansas and Utah.

Under the 2hr Learning model, students spend just two hours a day using personalized learning programs from companies like IXL and Khan Academy. “As students work through lessons on subjects like math, reading, and science, the AI system will analyze their responses, time spent on tasks, and even emotional cues to optimize the difficulty and presentation of content,” according to Unbound’s charter school application in Arizona. “This ensures that each student is consistently challenged at their optimal level, preventing boredom or frustration.”

Spending less time on traditional curriculum frees up the rest of students’ days for life-skill workshops that cover “financial literacy, public speaking, goal setting, entrepreneurship, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving,” according to the Arizona application.

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[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Frees them up for more time cleaning the butcher room floor

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 days ago

Because I can't imagine how that could go wrong at all. /s

[-] regrub@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Khan Academy was pretty good last time I used it, so I guess it's better than a no-name AI company.

[-] ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

Let’s think of the average parent that home schools their kid. I don’t believe for a second they’d do a better job than what is proposed here.

[-] regrub@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Of course not. No kid, let alone an adult, wants to listen to a soul-less robot for half the day. The schools cutting corners to pay teachers less is still an issue, for sure.

[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

From what I’ve heard, they were basically allowing anything with a pulse to teach in AZ, so who knows, being taught by an occasionally hallucinating wiki engine might be an improvement over the wife of some national guard dude.

[-] alienanimals@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

AI has it's usecases, but it's not currently at a place where students can be left alone with an AI. This is dumb.

[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago

Sounds perfect for Arizona.

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

At some point the AI says...fuck this guy, here color this shit and watch this movie. Eventually the student becomes a great painter.

[-] simonced@lemmy.one 8 points 2 days ago

Well, children will be as dumb as the Arizona State Board by the end of the year lol.

[-] Konstant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I can see this being the future...since they voted for it and all.

[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Let the charter schools try this first. Eventually something like this will be integrated into common education, but the first attempts are guaranteed to be disasters. Let those fall on 1/4 of learning time of a small subset of Arizonian charter school students and not "all California public school students" or the like.

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

I've found Kahn pretty good, but do they use AI? As in LLMs, or just nural nets? And what does it tweak?

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I preferred Khan when it had the knowledge web. Not everyone jives with gamification or personalization.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

yeah that's what i expect from the state that produced kari lake.

[-] WheelcharArtist@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

murricans....

[-] frostysauce@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Arizona Approved One Charter School’s Curriculum To ~~Will~~ Be Taught by AI, No Teachers

Fixed that joke of a clickbait headline.

[-] VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 days ago

I learned a whole year of highschool math in a week of holiday with KhanAcademy. Owned-paced curriculum would make school interesting for smart children and improve overall education. However it must be done wisely

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Which grade between fourth and eighth were you in

[-] VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago

Twelfth grade material in the holiday between tenth and eleventh. Basically derivative, antiderivative, integral, matrices and complex numbers

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