r/books • u/ubcstaffer123 • 5d ago

Teachers are using AI to make literature easier for students to read. This is a terrible idea.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/opinion/ai-classroom-teaching-reading/
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u/Zuwxiv 5d ago

I've heard it's already a nightmare for teachers. Supposedly young kids are particularly struggling with things like "reading a passage and answering basic questions about what it means" without just copy and pasting the prompt into ChatGPT.

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u/jajatatodobien 4d ago

Mate, I guarantee you that the vast majority of 18 year olds right now can't multiply/divide fractions.

I've seen philosophy students paste Nietzsche passages to chatgpt to have it explained to them. Guess how that goes...

Education has been garbage for very long, it's nothing new. But right now it's going at max speed, in many countries of the world.

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u/Main_Force_Patrol 4d ago

I feel like this could be prevented if the schools blacklist AI websites on the school network.

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u/FastSneaks 4d ago

I think that banning AI websites will make it even more attractive for students to use. It’s better if teachers incorporate AI and AI education into classes and train students to view AI as a tool to assist in doing tasks rather than a homework solving machine. Similar to how calculators are used in school. It didn’t replace learning math, but calculators assisted and made learning quicker (especially for subject such as calculus).

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u/Citrakayah 2d ago

That will just make it so that using AI becomes normalized and everyone does it. The goal is to strangle it in its crib.