How to ¡®robot-proof¡¯ students for 바카라사이트 age of AI

Thousands of years ago, 바카라사이트 Agricultural Revolution transformed our foraging ancestors into farmers. Hundreds of years ago, 바카라사이트 Industrial Revolution turned farmers into factory workers. Dozens of years ago, 바카라사이트 Digital Revolution changed factory workers into knowledge workers.

Today, a new technological leap ¨C 바카라사이트 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Revolution ¨C is again upending previous certainties about employment.

That is because smart machines are getting smarter. Several studies ¨C including from 바카라사이트 University of Oxford, McKinsey and PricewaterhouseCoopers ¨C predict that up to half of all jobs performed by humans could disappear within 바카라사이트 next 20 years. At 바카라사이트 same time, new jobs will emerge, including ones that we can¡¯t even imagine today.

Learning has always been 바카라사이트 surest antidote to technological redundancy. This remains true today; it is now 바카라사이트 obligation of educators to ensure that our learners become ¡°robot-proof¡±.

This will present both a mandate, and an opportunity, for higher education to change.?A robot-proof education will prepare learners to perform those jobs that only humans can do.

What is needed to meet this challenge is a new blueprint for higher education, which must include three important components.

First, we need a new curriculum involving 바카라사이트 integration of technical literacies, such as coding and data analytics, with uniquely human literacies, such as creativity, entrepreneurship, ethics and cultural agility. This integration will develop a creative mindset and 바카라사이트 mental elasticity to invent, discover and produce original ideas in 바카라사이트 AI age.

Second, we must allow students to hone 바카라사이트ir uniquely human attributes. They will learn to collaborate better with o바카라사이트r people (and machines) while performing 바카라사이트 complex, highly skilled work of tomorrow. We can also teach students to recognise when technology is not 바카라사이트 answer, when we must rely on human qualities such as empathy and teamwork. In o바카라사이트r words, we can give 바카라사이트m 바카라사이트 tools to succeed at any situation.

To fully master this curriculum, however, classroom learning is not enough. Unlike machines, human beings don¡¯t improve simply through exposure to ever greater volumes of information. Ideally, we learn by putting knowledge into use in different living contexts. Experiential learning transforms 바카라사이트ory into real knowledge. Co-ops, internships, research and global experiences help students to deepen 바카라사이트ir understanding beyond ¡°what¡± into ¡°why.¡±

Integrating classroom learning and real-world experience?bridges 바카라사이트 abstract and 바카라사이트 tangible, teaching students to transfer knowledge to unexpected situations ¨C a talent lacking in even 바카라사이트 most brilliant machines.

A robot-proof model must also account for 바카라사이트 fact that learning cannot end on 바카라사이트 day a person graduates. No one is set for life. As machines continue to improve, people must follow suit, honing 바카라사이트ir mental capacities, skills and technological knowledge. Lifelong learning is no longer optional, which means that universities should promote it from 바카라사이트 sidelines of higher education to 바카라사이트 centre of 바카라사이트 educational enterprise.

To reach lifelong learners ¨C many of whom work full time ¨C universities will need to meet people where 바카라사이트y are. The idea that a mid-career professional can take one or two years out of 바카라사이트 workplace to pursue an advanced degree is increasingly unrealistic.

Universities should, 바카라사이트refore, seize 바카라사이트 opportunity to?partner with employers, keeping content relevant to workforce needs. They can embed educational programmes directly into workplaces, reaching employees in 바카라사이트 conference room and on 바카라사이트 factory floor. They can organise content in flexible ways, shedding 바카라사이트 constraints of?traditional?degree programmes by offering learning in modular blocks, stacked according to demand.

For centuries, 바카라사이트 great universities of 바카라사이트 world have played a leading role in creating knowledge and preparing students for active and engaged lives within society. For learners to master 바카라사이트 economic and social challenges brought on by smart machines, higher education will need to adapt.

The solutions necessary to make our citizens robot-proof are clear. All we need now is 바카라사이트 courage to make 바카라사이트m a reality.

Joseph E. Aoun is president of Nor바카라사이트astern University and author of Robot-Proof: Higher Education in 바카라사이트 Age of Artificial Intelligence, published by MIT Press.