Ask HN: Onboarding LLMs or Students?
The article discusses the effectiveness of using large language models (LLMs) in educational settings. It emphasizes the importance of teaching students not just to obtain answers, but to understand the reasoning behind them. The author suggests that integrating LLMs into the learning process can enhance students' ability to learn how to learn.
- ▪The article questions whether the primary goal is learning or simply obtaining answers.
- ▪It suggests that students should be encouraged to engage with LLMs in a more meaningful way.
- ▪The author advocates for teaching students how to extract reasoning from LLM responses.
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Is the goal really learning here? If so what prevents the students from just go straight to a separate LLM?I think you need to get the students to buy in and then provide them a claude skill or something more integrated that teaches the why behind the llm answer. Today getting the what is incredibly easy and thats not going away, helping the student learn how to learn from the LLM, how to pull out the why and building tools to help with that seem like a better path to me
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.