Why “schools” is being discussed
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AI has killed the cheap education model. In that, 500 person frosh lectures are dead. 32 students per class, 6 classes a day are dead. What remains? The Oxbridge model that has…
by Balgair · Nov 3, 2026
The schools thought of that. Every connection (at least on my school laptop) is MITMed.
by MetalBreaksAndB · Nov 3, 2026
Some of the worst performance schools are cyber charter schools, which often promote the idea that they use AI as a personal tutor. If they could get better results with off-the…
by eesmith · Nov 3, 2026
I don‘t think that is so simple. Many schools have bought fully into the Google ecosystem, with Google Classroom, Chrombooks, etc. I used to tutor at my local high school, and f…
by runarberg · Nov 3, 2026
Reading, evaluating and summarizing results is exactly the skill we want to teach kids. This is like a book publisher refusing to sell books to schools without including spark n…
by morkalork · Nov 3, 2026
Can’t access the article, but would assume the schools are more concerned about students having Google AI doing their work for them, rather than concern about using the AI summa…
by jimbokun · Nov 3, 2026
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A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning environments for the teaching of students, usually under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools that can be built and operated by both government and private organizations. The names for these schools vary by country but generally include primary school for young children and secondary school for teenagers who have completed primary education. An institution where higher education is taught is commonly called a university college or university. Read more on Wikipedia