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At the core of Estonia’s high school initiative is a custom “Socratic” version of OpenAI’s chatbot that refuses to complete students’ work for them. Instead, it’s instructed to do things such as help plan how to approach a task, or ask questions to explore one’s thinking. Organizers in late April also started distributing a similarly customized version of Google’s Gemini. ...
Researchers in Estonia, working with Stanford University and OpenAI, have been measuring students’ cognitive skills and attitudes toward learning, both before the rollout and after. They hope to announce early results later this year, one of the first large-scale looks at what impact coordinated AI adoption has on skills such as reasoning, retention and confidence. ...
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