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"AI", students, and epistemic crisis

Personal blog of Jonathan Korman

This isn’t “a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it’s taught in schools.” Each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine. Like, OK, in tenth grade we talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world. I was sitting in front of him telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things … were wrong.

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