It was attention-grabbing however regarding to learn the opinion piece immediately from our esteemed governor and the commissioner of the Alaska Division of Schooling and Early Growth.
The article promotes their private values of “training” whereas poo-pooing the views of established state and nationwide academic establishments, in addition to Alaska’s elected legislative officers.
The doc is replete with lofty proclamations and outdated or incomplete references. For instance, the Dunleavy-Bishop duo states that “Alaska constantly ranks final in mixed academic achievement.” Nevertheless, the latest NAEP data, a useful resource they maintain up of their opinion piece, has had no information for studying or science achievement for Alaska college students since 2013, and incorporates no information, in any self-discipline, for college students in grade 9 or older, interval.
The Alaska Beacon (by way of ADN) reported in October 2024, “The state’s high training official relied on generative synthetic intelligence to draft a proposed policy on cellphone use in Alaska schools, which resulted in a state doc citing supposed tutorial research that don’t exist.”
Is the usage of AI actually this habit-forming?
— Fred Traber, Anchorage
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