What are some 1/2 year college programs that can lead to well paying jobs.

Question says it all in the title. I live in Ontario Canada if that makes any difference.

Submitted August 9, 2026 at 12:29PM by Beneficial_Roll_6206 https://ift.tt/vgWVOpT

AI in education

I believe that the utopia of AI in education, is serving as an educator and facilitator for students who are struggling with a concept or problem. This educator can serve as an expert in that field, giving a step by step break ground of the solution, and why it's the solution.

AI has access to virtually infinite knowledge and datasets, so one would think that it would follow that this would create an automated machine, that helps those struggling with a concept be able to communicate to that machine, and receive a world-class explanation of that topic. However, there are both sort-term and long-term problem with this utopia coming into reality.

As per short-term problems, most AI models are generally designed to receive positive feedback from the end-user. This is done primarily through 2 ways. The first of which being agreeing to whatever the student has to say, without giving any opposition, and the second being having heavy confidence within their answer, even when it's incorrect. This is problematic because it risks the miseducation of individuals. In both of these ways, AI is confidently assuring the student that an incorrect solution is correct, and is giving confident assertions as per the logic as why that is the case. I have had instances where I have asked AI a question, and it so confidently gave me the incorrect answer, and later when I emailed my instructor they said the exact opposite of what the AI told me. This lead me to be really skeptical of AI's responses, and if it's reliability is poor, then that's not a tool that should be heavily utilized, or used without regulation, and that is creating a large-scale risk of hurting student's learning towards a subject. This is a short term problem, because AI can be retrained to not have this level of arrogance, and programmed to not just give out new information.

As per the long term applications, I don't believe that AI will ever have the empathy and contextualization abilities that a real, human educator can give. I don't believe that AI will ever be able to truly understand the nuance of one's understanding, the same way an individual can, as it lacks empathy and context. AI will never be able to grasp the misconception and student's difficulty understanding a topic, and give a personalized response and feedback. It will instead give universal and generic explanations, and not be able to accommodate for the student. AI will never be ablet to replace the empathy that a real person can bring.

Overall, I don't really believe in the potential of AI in education in the future, and I don't believe anything will ever be able to replace human tutoring and educating.

Submitted August 9, 2026 at 02:25AM by DumbBin https://ift.tt/XmEZhcB

A Virginia middle school approved an LGBTQ+ student club. Then Facebook outrage helped shut it down

Following up on a post a few days ago - sharing an editorial from The Advocate’s John Casey about what’s been happening in King George County, Virginia, after the community there reacted with voiceferous bigotry after the story broke. It gets at a much bigger question about who gets to make decisions about student belonging and support.

Last year, students at King George Middle School tried to start a Gay-Straight Alliance. They wrote a constitution, found a faculty sponsor, and received approval from the principal. Seventeen students signed up within three days.

Then conservative community members took to Facebook. The faculty sponsor was targeted online, accusations of “grooming” started flying, and the School Board ultimately changed its rules to block noncurricular clubs at the middle school, effectively stopping the GSA from meeting. The students and their families are now suing in federal court.

Casey writes about growing up without anything resembling a GSA and what it means to watch adults take away a space that LGBTQ+ kids themselves were trying to create.

From an educational perspective, the situation begs the question: What responsibility do schools have when students organize an approved club, only for community pressure to intervene?

Submitted August 8, 2026 at 11:58AM by Fickle-Ad5449 https://ift.tt/aB5DgW4

Neurodivergent Educator Community

Hi everyone! I have created a subreddit at r/neurodivergentEd for neurodivergent educators to support and advocate for each other.

Submitted August 8, 2026 at 09:21AM by jenn2533 https://ift.tt/xJubipz

MASAI School - New Spammer on the block

Is anyone else also facing receiving continuous spam messages over Calls and WhatsApp from this new Spamming University called MASAI School from Bengaluru? For the past 2 months, I've been receiving multiple messages asking to enroll for a course in AI while all along riding on the back of the IIT name. You block one number and you receive from another, an endless loop of scum marketing.

I've never enquired about a course in my life let alone online, and yet here I am being harassed by these scammers for something which I will NEVER in my remaining life enroll for.

Information available online show the owners as Prateek Shukla, Nrupul and Yogesh who seem to be a band of bandits from some IIT (as claimed). They have perhaps completed a course in stealing people's personal data and spamming and harassing them. With these credentials, one can only wonder what kind of education will be imparted at such scam universities run by these pathological and desperate scammers!

Submitted August 8, 2026 at 03:10AM by Wrong-Panda-9980 https://ift.tt/uzo5fwF

Lecture on Fundamentals of AI, any Recomendations?

Hello everyone. So, I am an assistant at a university and this year we plan to open a new lecture about the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence. We plan to make an interactive lecture, like students will prepare their projects and such. The scope of this lecture will be from the early ages of AI starting from perceptron, to image recognition and classification algorithms, to the latest LLMs and such. Students that will take this class are from 2nd grade of Bachelor’s degree. What projects can we give to them? Consider that their computers might not be the best, so it should not be heavily dependent on real time computational power. 

Also, I’m thinking about a lecture on “how to use AI properly”. Like, it blows my mind how terrible some students use AI to write code. Antigravity is free for them, and surely they will be using some kind of AI tool to write code either way. I’m using Claude Code for like a year now, and spending at least one hour to write the first prompt to start working everyday. Yet, students usually give the exact text of the homework as prompt. What would you people recommend me to check out and refer to students as tutorials on how to use AI tools for beginners? 

I learned programming before AI and thought myself how to use AI. The tutorials I watched on Claude Code and stuff were basically tips and tricks for me. So I’m not sure how I can teach what I do to students without making it look like witchcraft, which it isn’t really. 

For AI homeworks, My first idea was to use the VRX simulation environment and the Perception task of it. Which basically sets a clear roadline to collect dataset, label them, train the model and such. Any other homework ideas related to AI is much appreciated. 

Submitted August 7, 2026 at 04:53AM by SPACE_GROOVE_LULU https://ift.tt/sTOy1mV

Distractions in Classrooms in These Times

I recently sat down with a Florida teacher with over 25 years of teaching elementary aged children. They shared with me their difficulties in teaching in the present times. They have children dressing as the opposite sex (example 8 year old boys in dresses and hair bows); children that are to be addressed by name other than what is on their official records. And fellow teachers that are transitioning to the opposite sex, complete with hormones etc, while teaching. The atmosphere in the classroom is not supportive of the students learning and concentration. There’s a lot going on. And the school boards, county officials and principals are walking a very fine line from a legal standpoint. So basically, our teachers are on the frontline alone. I was not aware of this (I am childless), and I was just wondering if parents are aware of what’s going on in elementary school these days. For the record I totally respect parent’s and teachers decisions within their own home but why bring that in the classroom? Surely an individual can transition to the opposite sex and dress neutrally. Where is the line?

Submitted August 7, 2026 at 04:28AM by StrHerb https://ift.tt/XlCYcOL