Running with Robots

The American High School's Third Century

Greg Toppo, Jim Tracy (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2025
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-54858-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Greg Toppo, a journalist who has covered education for more than twenty years, is the author of The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter. Jim Tracy, Ph.D., has been the Head of several independent schools and also President of a teacher training college founded in collaboration with MIT. He has held many senior advisory positions, including Senior Advisor to the Executive Team at Jobs for the Future, Board Member at LearnLaunch, and member of the MassRobotics Advisory Board.

Table of Contents
Prologue: Welcome to THAMES Academy
1 History Comes in Waves
2 Schools Come through, or "Higher School"
3 The Illusion of Humanity, or Maybe It's Beautiful
4 The Trust Machine
5 Centaurs in the Newsroom and in the Classroom
6 What if School Were Real Life?
7 Don't Tell Me What You Want To Be When You Grow Up
8 The Pyramids Are Closed
9 "Festina Lente," or Change Management at Rocky Hill School
10 Gimme Shelter
11 Written in the Soul: Oration vs. Writing
12 A Post-Work World of Spiritual and Artistic Renaissance?

Erscheinungsdatum	22.05.2025
Sprache	englisch
Maße	133 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung ► Unterrichts-Handreichungen
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	0-262-54858-5 / 0262548585
ISBN-13	978-0-262-54858-8 / 9780262548588
Zustand	Neuware