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AI Is Breaking Education. Rebecca Winthrop Has the Blueprint to Fix It.

AI Is Breaking Education. Rebecca Winthrop Has the Blueprint to Fix It.

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AI is already transforming education faster than schools can keep up. Rebecca Winthrop of Brookings' Center for Universal Education joins us to share findings from their new report and the concrete steps parents, teachers, and administrators can take righ

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The promise of AI in education is incredible: picture infinitely
patient tutors that can teach every student exactly the way they
need to be taught. But the history of education technology tells
us that these kinds of simple, optimistic stories are naive. Ask
any teacher or student whether they feel unleashed by technology
to do their best work.

Because AI has the potential to completely transform education —
is already transforming it — faster than educators can keep up,
it’s essential that we start asking the big questions: how should
these tools be used in the classroom? What’s the purpose of
education in an AI age? And how do we prepare students for a
future that’s still so radically uncertain?

Our guest this week actually has some answers. Rebecca Winthrop
leads the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings
Institution, and they just released a report called A New
Direction for Students in an AI World. She and her colleagues
conducted an extensive ‘pre-mortem’ of AI in the classroom,
speaking with hundreds of educators, students, policy-makers, and
technologists worldwide.

In this episode, Rebecca walks us through what she's learned —
what's working, what's not, and most importantly, what are the
concrete steps that parents, teachers, and administrators can and
should take right now?

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