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My kid is learning English as a second language and he was using some corporate program that was supposed to be fine tuned over many years. I noticed that their method of teaching is not great because it forces kids to memorize images instead of read actual text, so I stopped immediately and switched him over to reading one syllable words and gradually building them into sentences.

Now I use ChatGPT to generate custom lesson plans for him. It takes about 10 seconds to generate. I can honestly say this has worked much better than this expensive corpo program.

The tools we have at our disposal now are insane. All it takes is a tiny bit of imagination and a drive to try things.

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Tim Bouma 9mo ago

Yeah, they seem to have forgotten on why the phonetic alphabet was invented. By treating each word as its own icon it requires a lot of cognitive overhead as opposed to breaking it down into individual phonemes. Being cynical, it might actually be a teaching strategy to actively reduce cognitive ability.

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