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Eric Klopfer

Eric Klopfer

Professor

Oct 13, 2026

30:20
I wonder from your experiences in researching and writing this report focused on university students, what are the lessons learned that you think could apply to K through 12? Well,
30:33
one of them you mentioned was one size doesn't fit all.
30:36
So that's going to mean both in terms of when we move from K through 12, those experiences are going to look really different.
30:43
The thing I would expect for a first or second grader is going to be different than the experience I would expect for a 12th grader.
30:49
First or second grader, I might say, you should just keep AI away from them.
30:54
There's no, I don't see any really great need for them to be doing it.
30:57
Maybe bring in some concepts.

7 MINS LATER

37:45
Were there reactions to the report that surprised you either from inside MIT or from outside MIT?
18:27
many, um,
18:30
and you know, that model is just, it's just fragile at every stage.
18:33
You know, students are summarizing the book with chat GPT and they're coming to classes, um, with the questions like if they know they're going to have to ask a question, chat GPT has told them the question to ask class.
18:43
It seems like they read the thing.
18:45
The essay that they write is largely supported by ChatGPT.
18:49
You know, there's so many different stages.
18:51
The lecture, they're tuning out and recording and maybe listening to a summary of later.

6 MINS LATER

25:06
So it's going to be challenging to harness AI in this way.

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