I’d ask you to dig a little deeper into the problem. Motivation to read can’t be required. Putting readers in a system where they are required to jump from Hamlet to Jay Gatsby, make annotations for evidence to use in support of a claim, giving them the blessing of a grading system that holds their life in its hands—and then bringing in AI… What do you expect? By the way, they are taught to read literature as though it were a newspaper article or a biology textbook. The problem isn’t AI, Sparknotes on steroids. The problem is instructional culture. AI is an innocent bystander. I’ve talked to kids who tell me it helps them decipher the indecipherable. It helps them dish up what the teachers value.
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I’d ask you to dig a little deeper into the problem. Motivation to read can’t be required. Putting readers in a system where they are required to jump from Hamlet to Jay Gatsby, make annotations for evidence to use in support of a claim, giving them the blessing of a grading system that holds their life in its hands—and then bringing in AI… What do you expect? By the way, they are taught to read literature as though it were a newspaper article or a biology textbook. The problem isn’t AI, Sparknotes on steroids. The problem is instructional culture. AI is an innocent bystander. I’ve talked to kids who tell me it helps them decipher the indecipherable. It helps them dish up what the teachers value.