Learning for the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Eight Education Competences

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of tables
Acknowledgements
1. Overview
2. Human Life in the Age of Smart Machines
3. Competence Needed for Work in the Age of Smart Machines
	Summary
4. Public Schools Today and What Is Missing
	Introduction
	Goals of Education in the Past
	Goals for Education in the Future
5. Schooling: Curriculum and How It Should Change
	Transition: Living in Two School Worlds at Once
	The Ability to Learn Efficiently and Quickly
	Socioemotional Skills
	Skills of Civic Participation
	Ability to Evaluate Information
	Facility in Collaborative Activity
	Management of Personal Finances
	Confidence
	Physical and Mental Fitness
6. Where Can Children Learn All This?
	The Importance of Redundancy
7. Some Personal Reflections
8. How Do Schools Evolve?
	Dealing with the History of American Education
	Schooling in the Age of Smart Machines
9. Apprenticeships and Similar Experiences
	Traditional Apprenticeships
	Porous Career Paths
	Learning the Eight Competences In and Out of School
	Deepening the Subject-Matter Curriculum
	An Example of In-School Focus on the Eight Competences
	Out-of-School Opportunities for Every Child
10. Creating a “Third Place”
11. A Few Possible Ways to Address the Eight Competences
	Stories
	Informal Apprenticeships
	Scaffolded Real Tasks
	Scaffolded Simulated Tasks
	Games
	Clubs and Sports
	Governance Structures
12. Learning to Teach the Eight Competences
	Teachers
	Parents, Political Leaders, and Business Leaders
	“Third Places”
13. Assessing Learning of the Eight Competences
	The Tyranny of Assessments
	Tests That Do Good without Causing Problems
	Stealth Assessment
	Structured Social Moderation and the Use of Rubrics
	Simulation-Based Assessment
	A Choice: Continuous Improvement for All Children or Strong Public Control
	Transparency
14. Concluding Observations
	Preserving Democracy
	The Value of Redundancy
	The Role of Charters
	Lifelong Learning
	Needed Data Systems
	Investing in Learning Opportunities
	It Is Time to Act
	Other Countries Are Pursuing These Goals
	A Possible Path toward a Transformed Educational System
	We Are a Society that Can Do Hard Things
Index