There are some things in teaching that AI won’t change by Stephen Bush
https://www.ft.com/content/1369e4f6-12c7-43ec-b620-4f74e601c8ff
One reason why “knowledge-rich” curriculums have outperformed “skills-based” programmes is that we are terrible at predicting the future. How could it be otherwise? Someone starting compulsory education in Ohio in 1977 couldn’t possibly have been expected to know that by the time they left school, their state would have experienced significant deindustrialisation, the cold war would have ended and personal computers would have started to become affordable for much of middle America.
What “skills” will today’s children need in the world of AI? History teaches us that those we once thought would ensure a reliable income forever are no guarantee of any such thing.
https://www.ft.com/content/1369e4f6-12c7-43ec-b620-4f74e601c8ff
One reason why “knowledge-rich” curriculums have outperformed “skills-based” programmes is that we are terrible at predicting the future. How could it be otherwise? Someone starting compulsory education in Ohio in 1977 couldn’t possibly have been expected to know that by the time they left school, their state would have experienced significant deindustrialisation, the cold war would have ended and personal computers would have started to become affordable for much of middle America.
What “skills” will today’s children need in the world of AI? History teaches us that those we once thought would ensure a reliable income forever are no guarantee of any such thing.
Don’t Just Fix Higher Education, Reconstitute It
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/dont-just-fix-higher-education-reconstitute-it-b14a4eb2
The real threat to the existing system comes from the internet and AI, not Donald Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/dont-just-fix-higher-education-reconstitute-it-b14a4eb2
The real threat to the existing system comes from the internet and AI, not Donald Trump.
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A.I. Killed the Math Brain
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/opinion/ai-coders-jobs.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/opinion/ai-coders-jobs.html