[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.

[sillysaurusx]

Good. My 4th grade cursive writing was a waste of time. Studying anything else would have been more beneficial.

[raincole]

I think what they meant was "no matter how common something used to be, once we stopped teaching it in school it got lost quickly. Example: cursive."

Not "we should keep teaching cursive indefinitely."

[tacomagick]

I had to learn regular writing after cursive at the age of 20 eventually when I was forced because my instructors at the university would not let me use cursive. Those times were BAD.