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behavior Jun 18, 2026
r/education

Is AI actually helping students learn, or just helping them avoid learning?

I've been thinking a lot about this lately and wanted some honest perspectives from teachers, students, and parents. AI tools like ChatGPT are everywhere in schools now. Some students use them as a genuine study aid, asking followup questions, checking their understanding, working through problems step by step. But a lot of students seem to be using them to skip the thinking entirely, paste in an assignment prompt and copy whatever comes out. The thing is, struggling with hard material is kind of the point. That productive frustration is where a lot of real learning happens. When AI removes that friction completely, are students actually building any skills, or just getting grades without the growth? I've also seen teachers mention they want to stop relying on AI detection tools because it shifts focus away from actual teaching. That resonates with me. So I'm curious what people here think. Have you seen AI genuinely improve how a student understands something? Or does it mostly functi

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behavior Mar 25, 2019
r/education

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