Running with Robots: The American High School’s Third Century
- Length: 288 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Publication Date: 2021-09-28
- ISBN-10: 0262045893
- ISBN-13: 9780262045896
- Sales Rank: #296914 (See Top 100 Books)
How the technological changes that are reshaping the future of work will transform the American high school as well.
What will high school education look like in twenty years? High school students are educated today to take their places in a knowledge economy. But the knowledge economy, based on the assumption that information is a scarce and precious commodity, is giving way to an economy in which information is ubiquitous, digital, and machine-generated. In Running with Robots, Greg Toppo and Jim Tracy show how the technological advances that are already changing the world of work will transform the American high school as well.
Toppo and Tracy–a journalist and an education leader, respectively–look at developments in artificial intelligence and other fields that promise to bring us not only driverless cars but doctorless patients, lawyerless clients, and possibly even teacherless students. They visit schools from New York City to Iowa that have begun preparing for this new world. Toppo and Tracy intersperse these reports from the present with bulletins from the future, telling the story of a high school principal who, Rip Van Winkle-style, sleeps for twenty years and, upon awakening in 2040, can hardly believe his eyes: the principal’s amazingly efficient assistant is a robot, calculation is outsourced to computers, and students, grouped by competence and not grade level, focus on the conceptual. The lesson to be learned from both the present and the book’s thought-experiment future: human and robotic skillsets are complementary, not in competition. We can run with robots, not against them.
Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Prologue: Welcome to THAMES Academy 1 History Comes in Waves Rumple Goes to School 2 School Comes Through, or “Higher School” Magical Creatures 3 The Illusion of Humanity, or Maybe It’s Beautiful Rumple’s Lab Tour 4 The Trust Machine Rumple Learns Crowdsourcing 5 Centaurs in the Newsroom and in the Classroom The Three Cs: Creating 6 What If School Were Real Life? The Three Cs: Cybercurating 7 Don’t Tell Me What You Want to Be When You Grow Up The Three Cs: Caring 8 The Pyramids Are Closed for Revolution Rumple Visits Math Class 9 Festina Lente, or Change Management at Rocky Hill School Rumple Visits Humanities Class 10 Gimme Shelter Rumple Visits a Class of Past and Future 11 Written in the Soul: Oration vs. Writing Rumple Thinks about Edtech 12 A Post-Work World of Spiritual and Artistic Renaissance? Rumple Ruminates Notes Index
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