I wholeheartedly agree with the proposed re-orientation of higher education, though my agreement is not just predicated on the presence of AI as its motive. These would be outstanding higher education experiences even if AI were not displacing traditional curricula.
That said, there is a strong thread of workforce readiness here as the rationale for this move, which is accurate, though not necessarily the motive for 100% of all college students. There are plenty of art, film, music, and humanities majors who aren't exactly thinking about "starting a career" after college in the way perhaps an accounting or business major might be thinking. (I am married to one such graduate and the sibling of another).
My primary concern about Stefan's proposition is that current high school graduates would be largely unprepared for functioning intellectually in this new college arena, having been beaten into them that their grades are the measurement of their ranking. I teach five undergrad courses ranging from Gen-Ed level to Capstone, and rare is the student who can assemble a coherent paragraph that synthesizes complex subject matter into a context-specific narrative. (That is why I am here - to teach them). Throwing these souls into a world where imagination, ethical reasoning, and creative problem-solving are the measure of one's intellectual virtue would be a shock.
Perhaps the next level of the author's thinking in this proposal would be to conduct the same order of thinking to K-12 education.
I wholeheartedly agree with the proposed re-orientation of higher education, though my agreement is not just predicated on the presence of AI as its motive. These would be outstanding higher education experiences even if AI were not displacing traditional curricula.
That said, there is a strong thread of workforce readiness here as the rationale for this move, which is accurate, though not necessarily the motive for 100% of all college students. There are plenty of art, film, music, and humanities majors who aren't exactly thinking about "starting a career" after college in the way perhaps an accounting or business major might be thinking. (I am married to one such graduate and the sibling of another).
My primary concern about Stefan's proposition is that current high school graduates would be largely unprepared for functioning intellectually in this new college arena, having been beaten into them that their grades are the measurement of their ranking. I teach five undergrad courses ranging from Gen-Ed level to Capstone, and rare is the student who can assemble a coherent paragraph that synthesizes complex subject matter into a context-specific narrative. (That is why I am here - to teach them). Throwing these souls into a world where imagination, ethical reasoning, and creative problem-solving are the measure of one's intellectual virtue would be a shock.
Perhaps the next level of the author's thinking in this proposal would be to conduct the same order of thinking to K-12 education.