Some people believe math is a magic wand. Or, at least, that studying lots of math in school leads to magical economic outcomes.
The current Prime Minister of the UK is one of those who seems to buy into that idea.
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It has been almost three years since the spread of COVID-19 was declared to be a pandemic.1 Although some of us were paying attention to the potential mess that was becoming clear weeks earlier.
Just for giggles, I told ChatGPT to generated a blog post for me. The specific assignment was to “write an essay for a general reader about how charter schools damage public schools”. Here’s what it spit out.
I’m always rather cautious of major media outlets writing about trends among “young people” or telling us about whatever is hot in whatever the up-and-coming Gen-something is.
No matter how old they are, taking the behavior displayed by a select group of people and extend that to millions in the same demographic, age range, or area of the country is difficult at best. At worst, it leads to unreliable generalizations and stereotypes.
A few more bits of information and random thoughts about ChatGPT, the newest head to pop up in our ongoing game of technology-threats-to-education Whack-a-Mole.