[ddp26]

You mean chatgpt style AI won't help them with those skills?

If a human parent or teacher can help with skills like reading, an AI system can too, once it's trained and designed to do so. (How good are humans at teaching reading anyway?)

[raincole]

Yeah, it baffles me that the sentiment here is that AI can only hurt kids' reading ability, when AI (in the form of a chatbot) is practically a tool that forces its users to read a lot.

I still support for some sort of AI restriction for kids, though, since school is a place for kids to socializing. It's a more aspect important than reading and writing.

[simonw]

Not if they turn on voice mode, which is pretty excellent these days (at least in ChatGPT and Gemini.)

[raincole]

I do 100% support banning voice mode for school. (Again mostly for the socializing... or anti-socializing aspect.)

[chalupa-supreme]

We need to remember there are going to be human admin tasks that still need human interaction and critical thought into what you read and write. Adult users of these tools already accept AI outputs without too much thought in varying scenarios.

As a child, your willingness to question a tool that’s already better then you at most tasks probably isn’t going too high, and if you go through early education without exercising critical thinking… well we can point to cursive reading/writing as an example of a skill that completely disappears from a generation when not practiced enough.

[stackghost]

>How good are humans at teaching reading anyway?

Writing developed thousands of years BCE. So, considering we as a species have been successfully teaching our offspring how to read for hundreds of generations, I'd say we're probably pretty decent at it.

[bcrosby95]

It's funny how people let cultural narratives get in the way of actual analysis. I think some of it is modern convenience has made us intolerant of any imperfection then they label even minor imperfections as a catastrophe.

[wseqyrku]

They need those skills to be able to communicate with others, not to .. research?

[basch]

and with a structured tool, what better place to practice writing, process, iteration, revision, editing.

this happens constantly, every day. a current implementation of a technology isnt optimal so the entire class of anything related to that technology is treated as equally flawed.

the solution here is better tools, not preventing better tools from being created.

[ekjhgkejhgk]

LOL

[ilovecake1984]

Sounds dystopian.

What kids need to learn to read is an adult to engage with them, listen to how they read and engage them on the contents of the book.