Summer 2024 Education Trends: Advancing Forward

We begin this special “Stepping Up” edition by welcoming back our virtual co-host Nancy to discuss the AI revolution taking place in 2024. The episode delves into what “stepping up” means in this new era of agentic intelligence and transformative learning technologies.

Host Mike Palmer reflects on recent discussions with guests such as Brian Rosenberg, Dwayne Matthews, and students from the Marcy Lab School – all emphasizing the importance of tackling challenging tasks, embracing cognitive surplus, and cultivating durable “brain-to-brain” skills. We also incorporate conversations with Bror Saxberg and Charles Fadel to offer a comprehensive range of perspectives.

Nancy stresses that while AI tools are advancing rapidly, humans need to step up by creating engaging experiences that harness these technologies to foster motivation, vision, and human will. We explore the shift of AI from a scientific phase to an engineering phase, where achieving personalization at scale poses a growing challenge.

Mike wraps up with a highlight from the Palm Court Podcast featuring Dr. Jonathan White on getting comfortable with the messiness of tackling real problems.

Three key takeaways:

– Stepping up involves identifying the winners and transformative use cases as agentic AI steps up (or falls short).
– Developing “brain-to-brain” skills like empathy, collaboration, and perspective-taking will be essential for humans to thrive alongside AI.
– We need to improve our ability to identify problems and match the right AI/human tools to solve the messy, complex challenges that lie ahead.

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