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by jay_kyburz 2208 days ago
I don't know, after a few months of home schooling, I'm pretty sure that mentor could be an AI.
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Sounds like you need to seriously consider how well you're doing.
AI is probably far fetched, but gamified learning where you have to imput your result and you immediately see the correctness is already possible.
I think you could go much further. We should work out how to monitor and test a students progress, push them harder if they are ready, or roll back a bit if we detect they missed something. On Khan Academy where everything is multiple choice, my kids started guessing rather than knowing the answers. It was up to me to notice the problem and take things back a step, and work out where they got lost.
> We should work out how to monitor and test a students progress

What you're describing is called "teaching".

I really can’t tell if this is sarcasm.