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@lurch@sh.itjust.works okay, so kids can learn programming. But l want them to explore the concept even before they learn that word.
Based on your post history and behavior I would hope they don't learn it from you in your current state.
@dbx12@programming.dev why this remark ?
@lurch@sh.itjust.works
I doubt you have good teaching capabilities right now. Your behavior doesn't strike me as that of a teaching person. I cannot put a finger on it but I cannot imagine your behavior on role models and teacher figures I encountered in my life.
@dbx12@programming.dev honestly l don't know what kind of teacher figures you've come across, but with AI having invaded the market, the teaching profession would soon be wiped off the face of the planet. Only those people whose life's mission is to prepare the younger generations, only they would be able to be in the role of a teacher.
That being said, what is it that you noticed in my behaviour that makes you doubt whether l'm a good teacher or not ?
@lurch@sh.itjust.works
I've completed my education way before AI was a thing and got my academical degrees just before LLMs hit the general public, so I cannot judge how severe the influence of LLMs in the teaching world will be. I doubt it will be significant since LLMs lack one ability good teachers have and show: the ability to say "I don't know but I will find out and tell you next lesson". A LLM would rather make up some bullshit and present it as absolute fact before admitting it doesn't "know".
What I saw in my teachers and valued as role models:
- Very good grasp of their subject
- Ability to transfer knowledge from a subfield they excel in to another subfield they are not excellent
- As stated above: ability to admit lack of knowledge
- Ability to use scientific methods to prove or disprove a theory and present this process
What I haven't seen but assume based on the fact that teachers must complete academic education and earn a degree here: ability to learn a subject in self study, reading established source material, drawing conclusions from it and proving or disproving them.
Those are the standards I hold a professional teacher to. Tutors (as in other students teaching after hours) don't need to have all that obviously, but having those traits certainly improves their value as teaching person.