3 Tweets 4 reads Mar 27, 2023
AI means schools should *double down* on writing exercises for students, teaching and then testing their ability to generate and express ideas, within character limits, under time pressures.
"Writing" is nothing else but writing our thoughts.
If one cannot write well...😬
There's an (ancient) joke which comes up every so often where people who composed assembly dunk on people who programmed C, dunking on people who typed in Javascript, dunking on people copy pasting python, dunking on Bubble users, etc. which boils down to this:
It's dumb.
"Aw, cute 'import pandas as pd' - don't you know REAL programmers use curly braces!"
^ There's a version of this in every vocation where people without vision hide behind (often not hard) 'technical ability'. But when all can execute, the real difference comes down to thought.

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