AI is very popular, and AI courses are sold everywhere.
There are many primary school students who have not even said their full name in ChatGPT, but have been arranged by the school to take AI courses. Of course, many schools are just anxious. How can they have time to prepare AI-related tutorials and teachers, especially some schools below the county level.
For many schools, school-enterprise cooperation has been at the forefront. Of course, for many companies, students are the data they want. As long as they release an APP, it is very easy to reach 1 million users, especially in the Internet age.
For primary school A, if it has 1,000 students, it only needs the class teacher to recommend it on social media or at a parent meeting, and the number of APP downloads will really increase. This is absolutely a huge benefit for enterprises in school-enterprise cooperation. With users, there is data. With data, you can go for capital financing, and then continue to find new schools for cooperation.
Is such a course really suitable for first-grade primary school children? When we recommend these courses to our children, have we really cared about our children?
On the other hand, many parents are anxious, especially in some East Asian countries, such as Japan, China, and South Korea. Parents not only attach importance to education, but also have a lot of expectations and anxiety for their children. If it is a course required by the school, parents rarely question it, but cooperate with it with all their strength. They even think that other people's children learn it, and our children should also learn it. But why should we learn it? What are the harms of learning this AI? No one can explain it clearly.
Of course, it is not ruled out that some schools are chasing new technologies. They hope that their students can be exposed to the latest technology in the world, and the school itself has good economic conditions, and computers, the Internet, books and other resources are very rich, which is understandable.
However, education is ultimately diverse. It takes a lot of aspects to examine a child. Howard Gardner once said that every student has his or her own unique talents and gifts, and we need to provide them with a variety of learning methods. But how many schools and teachers have done it?
But today, with the popularity of smartphones and short videos, Youtube, Tiktok, and Netflix are devouring the free time of children and parents. For a seven-year-old child, sometimes he is just curious about things. Whether he likes it or not is another matter.
But is it really necessary to think carefully before letting children learn AI too early?
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