✨🧠 Teaching students to think, not just scroll, in the Age of AI
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The Diamond Age
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Neal Stephenson
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The article references Stephenson's novel The Diamond Age and its concept of an AI tutor. Understanding Stephenson's broader work on technology, cyberpunk, and his influence on tech culture provides valuable context for why his vision of personalized AI education is significant.
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Intelligent tutoring system
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The article discusses AI-powered personalized learning and tutoring. This Wikipedia article covers the history and science of computer systems designed to provide immediate and customized instruction, showing how the 'illustrated primer' concept connects to real educational technology research.
✨🧠 Teaching students to think, not just scroll, in the Age of AI
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world:
Artificial intelligence promises to enhance learning by hyper-personalizing instruction. The internet democratized information, now AI is democratizing expertise. The dream her is the creation of a kind of super-smart, always-available AI tutor — like the lifelike and life-long teaching companion, or “illustrated primer,” imagined in Neal Stephenson’s novel The Diamond Age. It would be a device that adjusts to a child’s needs, sparks curiosity, provides instant feedback, and builds real thinking skills rather than just handing over answers.1
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