From the course: Developing a Learning Mindset in the Age of AI

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Yesterday's learning vs. tomorrow's

Yesterday's learning vs. tomorrow's

- Many of our preconceptions about learning were developed in schools that were literally designed to operate like the production line of a factory. As Sir Ken Robinson said, in the most popular TED Talk of all time, "Education systems around the world seemed to have been designed to pull the love of learning right out of each of us." For example, rather than grouping children of all ages learning together in a schoolhouse, like many teachers used to do in earlier times, school systems around the world started to group children by their age because that was the most efficient thing to do at scale. And those kids were all taught the same things at the same times in their young lives. And then mass testing was invented to make sure those kids had all memorized that information. Well, if that sounds like a factory, it's because it was, and it often still is today. That traditional education system also was designed to squelch unique ways of thinking and learning. It only took one teacher…

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