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Independent Thought's avatar

Appreciate everyone taking the time to share their thoughts on this one. I am genuinely curious to see how people are feeling about AI in schools?

Celeste's avatar

Important move. A child must first learn to think for themselves, to research, to explore and not have information handed to them.

MARTY Standish's avatar

Agreed. Pen , paper and books are best. I’m against AI generally…..it’s applications for medical advances are however a good idea. 👨‍✈️

Linda Neary's avatar

Agreed. Young people are living in an online universe and losing their ability to think critically, absorb knowledge, socialize, empathize, strategize, appreciate and value learning. It is dangerous to individual and social development, and healthy living. I applaud Norway for taking this stand and.

Rebecca Bain Patchell's avatar

Great move by Norway. Should be worldwide or we will have a pandemic of stupid, cognitively altered and unable to think for themselves humans.

Deidre Lisenby's avatar

Sarah Kendzior published an article on AI today also. She has been attacked, hacked, robbed & impersonated ad nauseum because of her books & articles about dictators, corruption in our government & the Epstein files.

Thank you for your work.

Brian's avatar

Completely agree 💯. No AI for children as their brains are developing. Good luck getting the AI companies and their government lap dogs to support this.

Sue Munda's avatar

How are kids going to learn to love learning? Questioning, researching, being amazed early on. I remember while researching one topic, I would often stumble upon something to make me delve deeper into an aspect of whatever I was learning about. Kids are a blank slate and need inspiration. Even more fun when they do the digging themselves for their own curiosity.

Linda Neary's avatar

Agreed. Young people are living in an online universe which is causing them to lose their ability to think critically, absorb knowledge, socialize, empathize, strategise, appreciate and value learning. It is dangerous to individual and social development, and healthy living. I applaud Norway for taking this stand, and I encourage Canada and other countries to follow suit. Stay Safe. Stay Protected. Elbows Up. 🇨🇦

Jasmine Sherman's avatar

Overuse of AI is one of the most destructive things you can do to yourself

James Young's avatar

Agreed....how does a child learn if AI is thinking for them.

Pamela davis's avatar

Agree whole-heartedly.

Hall's avatar

As it should be.

Merilee's avatar

As veteran educator, I could not agree more. I was in an interview with someone about 15 years older than me who was praising AI and saying we should be using it now to sit by students. When everyone in the room agreed, I thought I didn’t want to work there anyway because of this mindless praise of AI - I launched into why they were wrong! Needless to say, I didn’t get the job but as I said, after they thought AI was “absolutely the best thing that could happen to education,” I didn’t want to work there, anymore.

We have a population in the US than exhibit an alarming lack of critical thinking. I can’t even imagine what the next generation will be like, if AI allowed to be used! What will human thought become? I shudder to think of it.

Thank you for telling us about Norway’s stand on AI. Good for them! I wish we could just unplug it!

Tim August's avatar

And their children will be smarter for it.