Last week, I spent three days at the Maine Department of Education’s annual educator summit. I attended because I wanted to see how teachers were being trained and what initiatives the Department would introduce this year. What I saw there shocked me. The department is scaring teachers into believing that advances in artificial intelligence (AI) will render the subjects they teach obsolete, and that the education system must be reimagined to teach and measure soft skills that cannot be automated away, like adaptability, empathy and problem solving. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jonah Davids is a research fellow with Maine Policy Institute, a think tank in Portland. Over the next month, the MDOE is hosting community meetings across Maine where they will introduce these ideas under the banner of “Measure What […]
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