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New Culture, work & education Development 17h ago
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Google AI overviews forced in classrooms

Google Is Forcing AI Overviews in Classrooms. Schools Are Searching for a Way Out

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Why this matches Opportunity & adoption reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ben Williamson
“"This seems counterproductive to what we're trying to teach.... Students need opportunities to navigate search results, examine sources, and draw their own conclusions rather than being handed anAI-generated synthesis before they've even started.” www.wired…” evidence ↗
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Ben Williamson Danya Glabau

“"This seems counterproductive to what we're trying to teach.... Students need opportunities to navigate search results, examine sources, and draw their own conclusions rather than being handed anAI-generated synthesis before they've even started.” www.wired…”

2 experts discussed this · 10 posts
Ben Williamson: "... it should not be down to tech giants to set education policy" - great to see this in New Scientist in response to Google's efforts to make AI the default medium for knowledge access in schools…
Ben Williamson: Google has been a problematic policy actor in education for years, far pre-dating Gemini. Its education platform Classroom was already a vector for automation in education www.edweek.org/technology…
Ben Williamson: Before ChatGPT, Google had already made its plans to introduce LLMs into education well known. In 5 years it's gone from shonky demos to forcing it into schools via existing Chromebook purchases an…
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Primary source wired.com ↗ newscientist.com ↗
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5 experts · 13 posts · 23h ago
Ted Underwood Andrew Perfors Andrew Piper Meredith Martin D. Hicks
Matches Opportunity & adoption
“oh, they already do, but I suspect my agent can say "no thank you" faster” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Ted Underwood: We need a social movement to explain to students and entrepreneurs — that it's a bad idea to email random professors in other states for advice. It was charming to get one inquiry a month, but thre…
Ted Underwood: I'm not sure what happened; GenAI is part of it, but not all of it. The trend began earlier.
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3 experts · 22 posts · 16h ago
Blake Richards Dan Goodman Cian O'Donnell
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“I was mostly thinking about the brain in the post at the top, not ML. I can certainly see that comparing expectations to observations is useful, but isn't that obvious? That's not the same as repla…” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Questions & unknowns · 2
Dan Goodman: Genuine question asked out of ignorance and not to make a point: is "replay" still a useful concept? I'm not an expert on this at all, but it seems like you would have had to have done all the inte…
Dan Goodman: I don't really understand this.
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3 experts · 3 posts · 13h ago
Mark J. Nelson James Tauber Al Merose
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“My students weren't very happy to discover that in machine learning, "tensor" is just a puffed-up jargon term for a multi-dimensional array.” evidence ↗
Mark J. Nelson: My students weren't very happy to discover that in machine learning, "tensor" is just a puffed-up jargon term for a multi-dimensional array.
Al Merose: We can all blame Jeff Dean for that.
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2 experts · 6 posts · 1d ago
SE Gyges Colin
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“It’s not really that, exactly. The math thing is just the LLM doing some data analysis and then tweaking the model, much in the exact same way that a skilled human might. It’s impressive but not mo…” evidence ↗
SE Gyges: this is an insanely funny admission given that the post is still correct in terms of all of the literal words that are literally in the post
Colin: there's just nothing really to address. The math performance thing on the small Qwen model is just a programming task. A kind of strange one, but not an especially impossible one. It doesn't reveal…
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