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phil
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Welcome @matt! Matt Bateman is a philosopher & historian of education. He’s a cofounder of Guidepost Montessori, the world’s largest Montessori school network. He has agreed to do an AMA for the /books channel. Reply with your questions (please make sure to tag him so he can easily find them)
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tldr (tim reilly)
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Hey Matt love your work. 1) are you excited about AI agents as individualized tutors? 2) what age and context do you envision students beginning to use them?
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Matt Bateman
@matt
1. I’m excited. I expect that general purpose LLM tools (like today’s chatbots) will just take on a tutoring function as needed, and that some significant minority of students will avail themselves of them. This is already happening. I’m less sure about dedicated tutoring AI software. Lots of interesting projects in development/MVP/GTM and I wish them all the best, but I’m not sure how important they will be. My prediction is that the general purpose tools come to dominate the education and learning space, sort of like how the most important education content platform is general purpose (YouTube).
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Matt Bateman
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2. Descriptively is seems to start in HS now. I expect that to drop to middle and elementary school for *some* students. In math tutoring especially. Earlier adoption is gated by the voice tech and UX being better. No one has generally solved onboarding a 7 year old to the internet IMO and you can see AI for elementary children as a subset of that problem. There are technical skills but also cultural ones, it’s a sort of art that people learn naturally now as preteens and teens.
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
Good framework. It doesnt sound like you have concerns about screen time for students post elementary school(?)
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Matt Bateman
@matt
I don’t think “screen time” is a valid concept. I have a lot of concerns about time spent passively with sewage grade content or fostering worthless behaviors and pseudo-skills, no concern about time spent with quality content or mastering the modern human digital arts
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tldr (tim reilly)
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Agree, I'm actually thinking more of physiological / postural things.
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