Running with Robots : The American High School's Third Century
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0262548585
ISBN-13
9780262548588
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
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MIT Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 3rd, 2025
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
294 grams
Dimensions
12.40 x 19.70 x 2.00 cms
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Information technology: general issues
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How the technological changes that are reshaping the future of work will transform the American high school as well.
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 Tracya journalist and an education leader, respectivelylook 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 Winklestyle, sleeps for twenty years and, upon awakening in 2040, can hardly believe his eyes: the principals 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 books thought-experiment future: human and robotic skillsets are complementary, not in competition. We can run with robots, not against them.
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 Tracya journalist and an education leader, respectivelylook 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 Winklestyle, sleeps for twenty years and, upon awakening in 2040, can hardly believe his eyes: the principals 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 books thought-experiment future: human and robotic skillsets are complementary, not in competition. We can run with robots, not against them.
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