AI has no place in a boys' English classroom

15/11/2024 29 min Episodio 13

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Episode Synopsis

We may be in the minority, but Bags and Chris are in full accord on this one: AI is going to do until damage to boys' learning in English.

Only this week, articles in the Christchurch Press "Number of illiterate uni students ‘at crisis level’" and the Otago Daily Times article "Despair over Literacy Levels demonstrate that the literacy of University students in the towns where we teach is falling off a cliff–and we already know that this is even worse for boys.

This conversation explores exactly why AI is such a disaster for the classroom, what we're doing about it, and why we thing it should go the way of "Whole Language" teaching of reading and Modern Learning Environments - to the dustbin.