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“The majority of my students either do not speak English or just learned English within the school year. I teach first graders in NYC; it is very common to have ELL students in NYC, as there are many immigrants and refugees here. We [have been] asked by the state to use online AI programs that read to the children to practice listening comprehension.”
“The AI expects students to verbally reply to various prompts [within] specific time frames. The issue is, that kids who have enough knowledge of English to reply to the prompts tend to have accents that the AI can’t understand.
“When the AI doesn’t understand their accents, it will continuously ask the same questions and won’t allow the child to move to the next question if it doesn’t understand their reply. Naturally, this frustrates kids and takes a large toll on their confidence in speaking the new language.
“And for the kids who know no English at all, the platform is useless, yet it’s still required to be used by the state, thus leading to more wasted time and frustrated learners.”
—meebz2173
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliacorrigan/teachers-sharing-student-ai-use