
"Some of the most popular individualized learning software has failed to demonstrate significant results with the majority of students in their efficacy studies," writes Dan Meyer. Why? "If any of those commentators have ever canceled their gym membership or abandoned their fitness plans, they should know better: it is people who help us do the difficult things we need to do." This isn't an argument based on the capacity of AI (though there are elements of it), it's more of an argument along the lines of, "why would we bother trying to impress an AI?" As Meyer writes, "Maybe one day students will be as interested in disclosing their thinking to artificial intelligence as they are to even the most curmudgeonly teacher. But today is not that day."
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