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School and college is all about preparing a new generation for their own future, but most teaching is locked into the past.
In many cases, we need to be educating for jobs that have yet to be invented, instead of training for tasks that no longer exist or are about to be eliminated due to tools such as AI / Artificial Intelligence.
The COVID pandemic forced major changes in education, some of which will endure. Over the next three decades, education will start younger in many nations than today. Education outside the home for 3-5 year olds increased by 10% to 85% in OECD nations in the last decade. This will be driven by two-career parents, and by research showing how important early learning is to later success.
Take examinations: how absurd to force young people to scribe indelible symbols onto pieces of paper, and to lock them into rooms without access to their digital brains. Cambridge University is considering allowing students to write exam papers on laptops, partly because examiners can’t read their terrible handwriting. Many other Universities have already started giving permission to write exams answers on computers if people have a disability which means that writing is difficult or impossible. Yet handwriting in exams will still be the dominant mechanism for proving student knowledge by the year 2030 in almost every part of the world. Work means using keyboards, not pen and ink.
And all that was before the rapid growth of AI. Artificial Intelligence destroyed the purpose of course work in 2022-2023 because from that point on it was so easy for students to get AI to write the course work for them. So at every level, education in most countries, whether school or university or post-grad, is locked into a last century time warp.
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