{"id":202124,"date":"2024-12-22T02:25:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T08:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/charter-school-is-replacing-teachers-with-ai"},"modified":"2024-12-22T02:25:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T08:25:04","slug":"charter-school-is-replacing-teachers-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/charter-school-is-replacing-teachers-with-ai","title":{"rendered":"Charter school is replacing teachers with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GT School Vision Video\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/982752902?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ENdAWT6N0V4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This will really start to pick up now.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An Austin-based national charter school network offers K-12 students <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kjzz.org\/education\/2024-12-18\/new-arizona-charter-school-will-use-ai-in-place-of-human-teachers\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">an AI-guided education<\/a>. Operating under a model called \u201c2 Hour Learning,\u201d a company of the same name <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ENdAWT6N0V4&ab_channel=AlphaSchool\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">advertises<\/a> accelerated pace, app-based classes designed to teach students at \u201c2X\u201d the speed of a traditional classroom, whatever that means. Parents are promised that the system works for 80\u201390 percent of children, and that students consistently rank in the NWEA\u2019s 90th percentile. Apart from generating top-ranking national standardized test takers, however, one of 2 Hour Learning\u2019s other explicit goals is the removal of teachers from classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine starting a school and declaring, \u2018We won\u2019t have any academic teachers.\u2019 We did exactly that!\u201d reads a portion of the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/heyzine.com\/flip-book\/2hourlearning.html#page\/9\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">white paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will really start to pick up now. An Austin-based national charter school network offers K-12 students an AI-guided education. Operating under a model called \u201c2 Hour Learning,\u201d a company of the same name advertises accelerated pace, app-based classes designed to teach students at \u201c2X\u201d the speed of a traditional classroom, whatever that means. Parents [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}