Pratica di Shadowing: No teachers, no homework: School solely uses AI to teach students - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube

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This probably isn't what comes to mind when you think of an average school day.
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This probably isn't what comes to mind when you think of an average school day.
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Kids breathing fire, climbing a rock wall, and even learning the art of grilling.
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But for students at the Alpha School in Austin, Texas, this is no field day.
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Here, K-12 graders are proudly cutting classes, spending just two hours a day learning math,
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reading and writing, all with the help of an AI tutor and without a single teacher.
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Morning launch time.
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McKenzie Price is the co-founder of Alpha School and its two-hour learning program.
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This is a school without teachers.
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We have no teachers at our schools.
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Can you believe that?
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The educators are a suite of AI-powered apps that gamify lessons, monitor progress, and with the help of eye tracking, keep tabs on students' attention span.
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Who's teaching you?
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I think the app is teaching me, but I'm also teaching myself.
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All as adult guides, many of which have never been teachers, look on without interfering with their robot counterparts.
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Are you comfortable having guides in the classroom that don't necessarily know the core curriculum?
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It's okay that our guides aren't experts in physics or math or whatever they're doing.
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They are experts in their students.
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It almost sounds like the guides here are told you're here to lead the kids to AI.
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Our guides are not allowed to teach.
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They are coaching students to become self-driven learners.
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Price says the AI tutor personalizes lessons for each student, allowing them to learn class material in half the time.
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And according to data from Alpha, score in the 90th percentile on standardized tests in most grade levels.
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This one's a little unusual.
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It all comes as students nationwide grapple with AI's role.
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While some critics say it's too soon to know if the tech's having a positive effect in classrooms,
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one study found generative AI tutors can sometimes inhibit learning if students become too reliant on the tool.
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How do you make sure that the AI that is teaching kids is doing what it's supposed to be doing?
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We have a lot of guardrails in place to make sure
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that kids are not dealing with some of the issues that come with what we hear about with AI.
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Still, at Alpha, where tuition costs $40,000 a year, academics are just the beginning.
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This is called our check chart.
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Each student must complete a long list of tasks before they can level up, including things like run a mile without stopping,
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solve a Rubik's cube, and even independently put together a piece of Ikea furniture, all in an effort to teach life skills and promote passion projects.
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Welcome to the Alpha School Airbnb.
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Like this group of sixth who are running a real Airbnb.
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How old are you?
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I'm 11.
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You're 11?
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Yeah.
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And how much money did you guys make with this Airbnb?
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So we have $10,000 of confirmed bookings.
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Over at Alpha High School.
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You made an app.
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I developed an app.
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16-year-olds Elle and Sloan are getting ready to pitch an AI-enabled app that gives dating advice.
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I want to ask my crush out to prom in front of all of her friends.
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Is that a good idea?
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It really depends on her personality.
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So you've been learning from AI, and now you're building your own AI?
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Yes.
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A full circle experience putting these AI academics in a class of their own.
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Yeah, a lot to take in there.
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And as a parent, I was a little sketched out seeing those little kids locked into their laptops with their headphones on.
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We used to have sustained silent reading back in the day.
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This is way beyond that because these are gamified interactive apps.
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So the kids are given full attention.
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And Price says they only do that for two hours a day.
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They break those up into these 20-minute intervals.
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The rest of the day is spent in those workshops, collaborating with others, learning life skills.
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Actually, on the day we visited, some of the high school students were going through this rejection workshop where they would pitch strangers on the street, their passion projects.
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AI, not so great at teaching how to get rejected, but something we humans are still pretty good at, I guess.
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Yeah.
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Fair.
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All right, Gotti.
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Thank you, Gotti.
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Thank you.
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We've got to figure out how to strike a balance.
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I was just about to say, and we need to figure it out, guys.
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Like, I feel like I'm talking about it every day.
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I'm going to freak out about technology, but, man, we don't have to give ourselves over to it either.
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Yeah.
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Good.
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Yay, humans.

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