Google took the path of Apple and provided ‘free’ software, ‘free’ email address systems, and such to schools, in this case, K-12 systems.
But here’s the cost… Unless those schools allow the use of Gemini, Google’s AI, then they will also be locked out of Google’s search engine.
And they say it like it’s a bad thing.
Students, particularly K-12, are only being taught to look things up using search engines like Google. Adding in AI will also remove any chance of them actually learning how to think. Of course teachers are inherently lazy now and it’s a lot easier to have students regurgitate factoids that have no real meaning than it is to actually teach them anything.
I hope that most districts will opt out of Google’s search engine and will go back to actually teaching, but I doubt the teacher’s unions will allow it.
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