We all know now that students’ ability to learn suffered significantly during the pandemic. Some kids struggled to pay attention and some just dropped out entirely, never to return. National test scores since then show that most students haven’t recovered even five years later.
Nevertheless, I guess I’d had it in the back of my mind that eventually those kids would recover or, worst case, even if those kids never really recovered at least the ones coming up behind them would return to form. Eventually things would get back on track.
Now I’m having second thoughts after reading a couple of articles about the impact of AI on student learning. If social media is a major distraction and waste of time for a lot of students, AI represent something even worse. It’s a short-circuiting of the need to learn important skills like reading, writing and math. Kids no…
