Alpha School, a pricey private school with campuses nationwide, uses artificial intelligence to instruct students. AI schools have been praised by the Trump administration, but researchers say there's limited evidence the model works.
If the student is willing to learn, and knows to take breaks when they lose focus
Maybe 5% of students are capable of this. But that same 5% will thrive regardless of setting.
What is warped is that struggling students who do not have the ability to succeed in online classes are the ones that are pushed to take online classes. I have worked with many students who failed their in person high school classes, were placed in online classes and did absolutely nothing until they crammed everything at the end of the year.
That’s not how learning works, and it’s fucked that the students who show clear lack of executive functioning are placed in classes that require more executive functioning. Like fuck, I’m a grown adult and I can’t do online.
Maybe 5% of students are capable of this. But that same 5% will thrive regardless of setting.
What is warped is that struggling students who do not have the ability to succeed in online classes are the ones that are pushed to take online classes. I have worked with many students who failed their in person high school classes, were placed in online classes and did absolutely nothing until they crammed everything at the end of the year.
That’s not how learning works, and it’s fucked that the students who show clear lack of executive functioning are placed in classes that require more executive functioning. Like fuck, I’m a grown adult and I can’t do online.