No, it’s not a new game show. It’s real life.
Our friends at the Center for Public Education, have examined how automation – turning tasks over to a computer — is continuing to eliminate jobs. (Ticket agent? Factory worker? Anyone?) If a task can be simplified into a routine with one specific right answer, a computer can often do it more effectively and efficiently than a human.
Don’t worry. People are still better at figuring out complex problems and proposing creative solutions where there is no one right answer. But preparing students to do that means making sure they know how to do more than follow a set of directions. Read the CPE’s 21st century education report to get a practical, real-world look at the kinds of curriculum that has been shown to help them do that.
