<i>"NYC Bans Students and Teachers from using ChatGPT"</i> Yeah, good luck with that, Luddites. That's like trying to ban students from using a calculator on their maths homework.,(reply>), @Duc Pham im just glad if everyone from kindergarten can read and write. even that's an achievement in many top-tier western world countries. still not everyone does in Finland for example, and it was #1 in Pisa scores a few years back.<br><br>we still have people that go through basic mandatory education without learning to properly read and write. and we were #1 in Pisa score in 2020.<br><br> "calculator is ..to help them understand concepts"<br>uh, a calculator does not help you understand concepts, it just makes you type things, by the way. you can totally just mechanically type into a calculator without understanding anything, that's how I did my math. <br>just follow an example, and mechanically type the formula and it gave me an answer. I didn't understand anything.<br><br>it's not like if you have more homework the more you automatically understand the subject. Finland is famous for not having a lot of homework, and 15-minute recesses every 45 minutes because that's scientifically the maximum children can concentrate on a subject. versus someplace like Spain, where kids don't get out the whole day, the volume is loud, and one of the worst Pisa scores in eu.<br><br>if you don't get it, it doesn't help that you are just given more homework on the material you don't understand! all he or she will do is mechanically copy and paste the same formulaic answer, like in math, without understanding why he or she is doing it, what's happening. <br>You don't understand the concept of homework.<br> it's not meant to punish the children for not knowing, so he or she goes home and fills in the asked questions by googling answers.<br>because she never understood it when it was taught, he or she still doesn't get it.<br>so you have another day with homework full of right answers... and low pisa scores overall in the nation.<br><br>I used Grammarly to automatically fix all my typos in a few seconds.<br>if I checked it manually, it would've taken me probably 30 minutes or more.,(reply>), Okay, should we allow kindergarten students to use calculators to calculate 1 + 1 = 2? don't you see that it is clearly pointless to test their basic arithmetic skills if allowing them to use a calculator ?. In other situations, allowing them to use a calculator is not meant to measure their calculation abilities, but rather to help them understand concepts such as definitions, formulas, and problem-solving techniques. You probably don't understand what the point of doing homework is. 40 likes? people here are more stupid than I imagine.,(reply>), Remember the days when teachers tried to do this,(reply>), Eventually someone will realize education and testing needs to change dramatically... or we can just have everyone getting A's without knowing anything. Up to them.