AI AND THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION (Full Documentary)

Summary

Highlights

• AI is reshaping the pedagogical landscape, questioning the relevance of traditional teaching roles 🎓.
• The future of education demands adaptability, emphasizing skills like creativity, critical thinking, and digital literacy 💻.
• Teachers are seen more as mentors with AI taking over rote learning tasks 👨‍🏫.
• The debate over AI's role raises concerns about reduced critical thinking and creativity in students 🤔.
• Educational systems worldwide struggle to balance technology integration with traditional curriculums 📊.
• Equitable access to technology remains a critical issue, with disparities evident between different socioeconomic and geographic areas 🌍.
• Lifelong learning is now essential, reflecting the rapidly changing job market and technological advancements 📘.

Key Takeaways

• AI is revolutionizing education by transforming traditional teaching methods and roles 📚.
• There's a growing need for AI literacy to prepare future generations for an AI-driven world 🤖.
• Education should focus on lifelong learning rather than preparing students for a singular career path 🌱.
• Human interaction remains crucial, even as technology becomes more integrated into learning 🤝.
• The digital divide poses a challenge as not all schools have equal access to advanced technologies 🚧.
• Media literacy and critical thinking are more important than ever in scrutinizing the vast information available online 💡.
• AI and technology in education should empower students, not add stress or create dependency 🤗.

Overview

AI AND THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION (Full Documentary) Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 Is totally useless how we are teaching our kids today. One simply cannot imagine anything else. People have always experienced it this way and have always done it like that. Hi Samer, my name is Daniel, I will be your language teacher for today. What language would you like to learn? The unemployment is potentially gonna continue to go up, giving the economic strain on society. Training these young people to have the mindset
• 00:30 - 01:00 of being job creators, is more important now than ever. What we need to do is help children become fearless about lerning, because we are leaving the era, in which you could depend on a single skill to last your entire life-time. With the impressive advances that technology has made in the last few years,
• 01:00 - 01:30 it was just a matter of time until those intelligent machines appeared in the world of education. Robots in the classroom, digital assistants, and AI'S are enhancing personalize and remote learning, auto-corrections, and access to knowledge at a speed never seen before. These technologies, with many other applications being developed every day, have started to disrupt a field which has tended to be rather conservative,
• 01:30 - 02:00 These advancements have started to create a buzz and simultaneously brought up some fears. One of those concerns is: Will teachers be superfluous one day and entirely substituted by A.I.? Hi Samer, my name is Daniel, I will be your language teacher for today. What language would you like to learn? I should probably brush up on my mandarin. Listen carefully, try to remember and repeat what they say. "Speaking Mandarin"
• 02:00 - 02:30 Well Samer, lets just say you are going to need to practice a bit more. Ok. Let me know when you are ready to try again. How will these technologies affect the role of the teacher in the future? With the engagement of these AI systems, the role of the teacher is changing a bit. It is more like turning into a mentor rather than the teacher, that teaches you the knowledge!
• 02:30 - 03:00 The teacher's classical figure as a communicator of knowledge could be fading away behind those new AIs and other technologies. But why? Often, I think, there is to much standardize knowledge passed on. And so little value is placed on other forms of learning and knowledge; that could help dealing more flexibly with specific situations. We need to learn less, over time, and be able to do more. That is what is important for us. Knowledge, of course, you can look up
• 03:00 - 03:30 everything on the Internet nowadays. Because already knowledge by itself it's not valuable anymore; because the knowledge it's very accessible, well, mostly it's accessible, of course. But the way the human being is processing it, and giving some new knowledge out of generated knowledge, I think that is the most valuable thing. Knowledge, that is just a mouse click away in the ocean of the internet, has made it possible for students and many others, to access a vast amount of data
• 03:30 - 04:00 that years ago was only available to teachers and scholars. But how is this affecting the way we teach? It is totally useless how we are teaching our kids today. Starting from kindergarten and ending with university like we are preparing the... experts of 100 years ago. There is a boss, who sits at the front, and, they lecture and instruct, and then, they give a command, you know, home-work.
• 04:00 - 04:30 And all kids, virtually turn in the same thing. We all are expected tp know exact the same thing, and to be better than the next person at it. Right! And our success is actually measured on how often are we better than other people. At this, skills that we have actually no interest at being good at. All around the world, every country is founding a public education system. teaching courses that were designed last century. I think our education systems is... relatively sluggish and slow. And I think we really need to set the course now.
• 04:30 - 05:00 Is our educational system actually that traditional? Why has it not change at all in the last 50 years? One simply cannot imagine anything else. People have always experienced it this way and have always done it this way; and the habit alone it makes for many people very difficult and complicated to imagine anything else. Since the dawn of mankind, he transmission of knowledge from one generation to another
• 05:00 - 05:30 has been an essential part of our lives and history. Through story-telling or imitation, the act of learning was, always, inherent to our society and a necessary means to the species' survival. In ancient Greece, with the academy founded by Plato, or in the middle ages, with the establishment or in the middle ages, with the establishment of the first universities by Christianity, learning and education have always played a primordial role in the growth of our culture. However, those examples only illustrate
• 05:30 - 06:00 a few exceptions related to higher education, to which only privileged citizens or the clergy had access to. For most people, until the 19th century, education occurred within the family circle or in small groups where the students were expected to learn a specific skill or profession. But with the arrival of the Industrial Age, the factory-based production system, the division of labor, and the complexity of the continuously
• 06:00 - 06:30 growing modern cities, the need to create independent learning centers to train and educate the future workers became an urgent necessity. This educational system was implemented more than 200 years ago and it's essentially very similar to the one we are still using today. I think there is a lot to do. For example, to implement more digitization and modern learning methods in the whole educational system. I think, especially in Germany,
• 06:30 - 07:00 we're still significantly behind the times. And I think that would be an important first step. The countries I don't think they reform the educational systems fast enough to keep the pace with the technological changes. But, I think, to be fair, that would have being impossible to do. In the educational system, there is a delay in relation to technology because new teaching content must first be developed. The pace of technological changes seems to be too fast
• 07:00 - 07:30 to be followed easily by educators and teachers. So, what must be done? What we need to do is, help children became fearless about learning. Because we are leaving the era in which you can depend in a single skill to last your entire life time. My dad's generation, they had an average of five jobs between the age of 18 and retirement. My generation in America, we will have 12 jobs
• 07:30 - 08:00 between the age of 18 and retirement, and, we should expect a similar increase for the coming generation. The next generations are expected to have between twenty and thirty different jobs in their lifetime, And those jobs could be in different sectors or trades. So, there will be a growing necessity to learn new abilities every time. So, what are the fundamental skills of future education? AI Literacy. So, we will have to start very early in child education to, actually, train people
• 08:00 - 08:30 to understand how these systems work. How to question them; because it will affect you in the future. Actually, already affects you now, because if you using Google, you are technically using an AI, and it's a valuable skill to know how do you get the information out of Google that you are looking for. We learn in school and kindergarten, how to walk across a street. We look left and right. We have to understand the traffic lights. But we don't teach how to navigate confidently in this new digital world. And the AI
• 08:30 - 09:00 education is one of the important things, I think, in this direction, because if we will not teach our children how all of this blackbox and algorithms are working, they will also raise up with this idea of nonsense that's: Ok; it's doing something and I can not do anything about it. Every public education in the world needs to think more deliberately about how do we make computer science part of the primary and secondary curriculum.
• 09:00 - 09:30 Adding computer science to the curriculum is a step that public education worldwide must start considering. Every day, more and more of our interaction with the world runs through computers, algorithms, and A.I.’s. So, what are the benefits of computational literacy for young students? The greatest potential that artificial intelligence has in the field of education is surely, that it helps us to access information in an easier way. From the learning perspective, I think that is an amazing tool
• 09:30 - 10:00 that can teach our kids new knowledge, creativity, interaction. Also, there is a lot of kids with disabilities who have a very low level of engagement and that is a perfect environment to be engaged. But these new robots and assistants are only available to a handful of schools and universities. Why is that? I would say, it is mainly linked to the lack of investment in education.
• 10:00 - 10:30 And in the past years, I mean, many austerity police in Europe lead to lack of investments. A school system in which we can see the complete upgrading to iPads in some private schools or a small computer pool, in a public school, where you get access once a week briefly. And that is, eventually, the problem: that this change is to be seen everywhere but does not... take place as a whole.
• 10:30 - 11:00 The austerity policies of the last two decades, lack of public and private sector investment, and general skepticism of bringing children into contact with new technology at an early age are some of the reasons why these new developments are still not an integral part of schools. But, there is another crucial question leading to this delay: Is technology making us slower and, therefore, more vulnerable? The question is rather: Are we facing a certain dumbing-down of society,
• 11:00 - 11:30 which,then, is being mistreated? The Internet and all the services around it creates a problematic where the users lose a certain degree of self-determination with those AIs and algorithms. Creating a vicious circle, in which we, as users, star to think less and less about what its going on. Education is about... making people grow, in responsibility, making people more able to discern,
• 11:30 - 12:00 to have judgments, on very difficult matters. But on the contrary, we are building assistant that can do the job for you. So where is your creating leading to? Nowhere. You don't need any creativity. You don't need any... skills. You don't need any... education, at all. Because you won't have to interface directly with other people. That's perhaps, the main problem, that I sort of surrender
• 12:00 - 12:30 my own thinking and then I become less critical. The gradual loss of our critical thinking and grasp of reality is one of the main concerns surrounding technology's integration into our kindergartens and schools. Many see this as a danger in which we could gradually lose contact with ourselves. So, how can educators prepare younger students for AIs and personalized robots in schools?
• 12:30 - 13:00 From educational perspective, when you have a robot in your school or in your playground, I think the main focus should be the social engagement of the kid, not the isolation. Because when we are talking about the personalized toys, by personalization we mean that the robot it's only attached to one kid, and to nothing else. And, that sometimes can lead to loneliness, or to some emotional attachment to the robot and to no on else.
• 13:00 - 13:30 That is also one of the things that... we should take care about. So, if technology could help people to get skills, to get knowledge, with their own tools, then use it! Only if it is in an environment where there is human interaction. Paradoxically, human interaction will become our strongest weapon in our relationship with machines. But how will that change us?
• 13:30 - 14:00 I think that it could be easier but, also, how much are we gonna lose, from our own skills. I prefer humans, basically. To talk to humans. Humans! I think we need to be careful with it as it can take a lot of our humanity too. That gradual loss of our humanity and grasp of reality
• 14:00 - 14:30 are some of the fears surrounding A.I.'s and robots' implementation in our schools and our lives. Indeed, the last two decades of living with the Internet are not very promising: A society torn apart and radicalized by technologies that many of us use daily but don't fully comprehend. It is understandable that some educators don't want those technologies in the hands of our young students. But what could we teach our youngest to avoid such misuse of technology?
• 14:30 - 15:00 It's not about operating computers. The students don't have to learn how to write a text or how to calculate something with a spreadsheet. They’ll learn that anyway! It's really about media literacy; it's about questioning things. It's about learning that, for example, what you read in Wikipedia is not all truth. It's not so much about individual technologies, but directions. For example: What does it mean If I go from one place on the Internet to another?
• 15:00 - 15:30 What can a third party learn about me? And, at the end of the day, it's about teaching students to think critically about what they're using. In the future, it would make a lot of sense to address this question more strongly: Where does my information come from, and how do I have to classify it in a certain context. And, I think that, in an information-based society like ours, it is a necessary step. We need to teach all generations
• 15:30 - 16:00 to be critical of digital assistants and robots, to question and confront the information we receive and its sources. But, primarily, we should adapt ourselves and be prepared for an everchanging world altered by technologies like A.I. Hi there, I am Aldo, the producer and director of the documentary you're watching. I hope you're enjoying it. And if that's the case, check down below, where you will find the links to our other three documentaries about AI. Keep watching and have a great day.
• 16:00 - 16:30 And in this changing world, the attention, of the last years has been centered on introducing those devices in our schools and universities. What about our educational curriculum? Is it following the pace of technological development? People all the time think about: How can we improve school? And what they think about is: How do we use technology in the classroom, but to still teach the same stuff
• 16:30 - 17:00 that they learned when they were young. Where today's kids, what they want to learn more than anything else it's things like coding and computer science. And meanwhile, as you go into a school, in almost any part of the world, and you look in the face of the students, their eyes are glaze over because they are memorizing something from a history book, which is important, but not as engaging as where it be to create an app, to create a small business, to create a web-site. Using technology to be creative and entrepreneurial
• 17:00 - 17:30 is one of the current generations' main characteristics and interests. Entrepreneurship is seeing as a model to fight technological unemployment and one of the central pillars in the education of the future. If you reach people at a young age, where... you can actually get to think of themselves as people who actually are an economical agent of change. Who has the confidence and the capabilities to be an entrepreneur, it lasts for a long, long time. Being responsible and independent from an employer,
• 17:30 - 18:00 while owning your business and doing what you love the most is a beautiful goal to aspire to. Unfortunately, the reasons pushing the younger generations towards that direction are not always motivated by passion. The unemployment is, potentially, gonna continue to go up, giving the economic strain on society. Training these young people to have the mindset of ben job creators, is more important now than ever. Automatization,
• 18:00 - 18:30 global recession, and ultimately, Covid-19, have led to the loss of many jobs in the last years. And it seems that this trend will continue in the foreseeable future. In the next five years, it is expected that 85 million jobs more will be displaced, and around 90 million new jobs will be created. All jobs will disappear. New jobs will emerge. But then the new jobs will rapidly change and vanish.
• 18:30 - 19:00 If you take the average job, in just the next five years alone, 40% of the core skills, on that job, will change. Whether it is now in industry, logistics, or service, the core of those industries will change significantly. That means, you have to learn new skills that will enable dealing with this transition better. New skills are to be learned by our workforce but also taught in schools and universities around the world.
• 19:00 - 19:30 But what are those essential skills of the future? Analytical thinking and innovation, active listening and learning strategies, technologies use ad monitoring, creativity, originality, and initiative. These are the type of things that traditionally have not being emphasized by education systems and, are things that people tend to pick up in the workplace. Now, these they gonna be at a premium and rising. But also social skills, behavioral skills. I mean, how to interact
• 19:30 - 20:00 not only with a machine but also with a human. It's something where we will definitely and still need strong public and privat investment. Creativity, flexibility to learn new things, technological know-how, human interaction. These are the skills needed to be prepared for the labor market changes that the future brings toward us at high speed. But what are the private sector and employers doing to support this rethinking?
• 20:00 - 20:30 If you don't get it, or if you consider that the educational system does not provide you. Just take the people, train them; train skilled people, train disadvantaged people, Two out of three employers said, that they will get a return on investment if they invest in people skills, but in this current recession and with the economic pressures that they are facing are taking very short-term decisions that lead to layoffs. And this is exactly the contrary that we should do,
• 20:30 - 21:00 I mean, everybody again, the over-narrative on new technologies: skills, skills, up-skilling, up-skilling, but we are doing the contrary. The educational system and the private sector are going into different directions. Entrepreneurship and further education are two of the foundations of our labor market in the future. Both of them can be taught and enhanced in schools and universities. Still, if the private sector is unwilling to play along, we will have challenging times ahead of us. And there is the main problem:
• 21:00 - 21:30 Which are the driving forces of digitalization? Why it is not something that we build together from the base where the people could have a voice in the important decisions? Rethinking education as a collective good, where people have decisionmaking power, where the goal is the collective empowering of students and the workforce, and where technology is used to develop this vision faster and more efficiently. How can we create the conditions for these technologies to positively impact our educational system?
• 21:30 - 22:00 Technology works, following the parameters that has being given. So, we need to focus on "Who", is right now, giving those parametrs on Digitalization. Exactly. With digital technologies, there has been a disconnect between the public and private sectors from the start. Finding a balance between these two sectors will be one of the greatest challenges for the educational systems of the future. What other challenges will people face in their quest for more and more knowledge?
• 22:00 - 22:30 Realizing, that life is a learning process, and that learning will continue throughout life is one of the great challenges. We know this, but our school system keep on pretending that there is a certain break in life. In which, one at some point ends and, after that, becomes a professional. I think is bizarre, that we spend so much time trying to get children to arrive at this age of eighteen, when they becaome an adult.
• 22:30 - 23:00 We push them out of home and school, and we ask them to choose, a single skill, that they should depend on for the rest of their lives. When really what's going on in the minds of children is: they're not monogamous to a single skill. There's actually many things in life that interest them. And often, what teachers and parents are doing is discouraging variety and insisting that they focus because you need to be focused in order to be competitive. Counteracting this understanding of education
• 23:00 - 23:30 is the great challenge for the future. The idea that we never stop learning has strengthened in the last decades. An always-changing social, work and educational landscape, impulsed mainly through technology, has made us realize that our classical and, somehow outdated, educational system is not prepared to carry those fast changes. That is where a lot of the focus needs to be; if we want to ensure that
• 23:30 - 24:00 as a revival comes back into the economy, as the job market gets more dynamic again; we use this current window of opportunity to actually give people the right kind of skills. It won't be from government alone, it won't be from business alone, but if we bring those two sectors together and provide a lot more of online learning and training, this can work. Life-long learning, encouraged and driven by the internet and the accessibility to online studies,
• 24:00 - 24:30 courses, and workshops. It's an incredible social experience to learn something together in a real space and collaboration, but it's not always possible for everyone, everywhere to have... that privilege, of having a school with peers that share the passion that you have. So, that's why online is so powerful, because you can live anywhere and you can go online and be anyone with anybody How will this improvement in remote learning affect schools and universities?
• 24:30 - 25:00 How will it look the classroom of the future? Will it be a hybrid of online learning and in-school learning? Will it be a combination of group work and individual work? I think that university and the school will still be needed. Because we are social beings and I believe, the essential thing you learn in those places is to work in groups, to work socially. Group work and interaction with others
• 25:00 - 25:30 will always be the most pleasant and fruitful way to acquire knowledge and develop new ideas. But, the new opportunities that the Internet offers us are almost unlimited. However, is our current educational system prepared for those learning platforms? Will it be flexible enough under the pressure of those new learning methods? I can very well imagine that in the future, students will have much more opportunities to decide about their own educational curriculum. More possibilities to decide about the methodology
• 25:30 - 26:00 to use on the learning process. Also that parents will be more involved in the earlier years and in the various possibilities. And I imagine a school system flexible enough, to accommodate all the qualifications that a person acquires in the course of a lifetime, and not just what happens within a certain framework. The validation of online education as a part of our curriculum will definitely improve employment prospects in the future.
• 26:00 - 26:30 But who exactly is invited to be part of this educational revolution? The main problem, which remains an old one, is an insane correlation between people's social background and their educational opportunities. Which, supposedly, have been counteracted over and over but clearly, it's still happening everywhere. Any technology, whoever is inventing and creating a tool needs to include everyone. We have connectivity, connection, infrastructure; I mean, you just have to name it. Everyone is inventing,
• 26:30 - 27:00 but, distribution. Who is distributing what? Who is having access? The access to those technologies that promise to improve our learning is still far away from being distributed as it should. There is an enormous difference between rich and developing countries and even in developing countries between public and private schools. And at the moment, the signs of improvement in this area are minor. Online learning,
• 27:00 - 27:30 A.I. assistants, robots, and incentives for entrepreneurship, are the flagships of the education of the future. A future where efficiency, perseverance, and initiative are the goals to aspire to. A future altered almost every day at the speed dictated by technology. Are we prepared for such a challenge? Learning more and more so that we don't lose our job or fall behind. This kind of situation could become a huge stress factor and burden in our working life.
• 27:30 - 28:00 But, Up-skilling and learning should open up new possibilities, should be an empowering activity for the workers, and not become an added external pressure on them, which could result in even more anxiety or fear. We should try at all costs to avoid turning education into a stress mechanism that oppresses our lives between jobs. Rather, transform it into a tool, an instrument that guides each of us in our long life of self-discovery.
• 28:00 - 28:30 Education, wherever is school or life-long learning, this is a way also where people can not only up-skills but to get empowered by the society. They shouldn't prepare you for a job. They should prepare you for life. They should help you to grow up to be a human! Preparing you for your life! A goal that we all should aim for. With our children, our students, and our friends. We should never stop pursuing our internal self growth
• 28:30 - 29:00 and personal development. Never forgetting our humanity. Never letting any technology taking it from us. Because that, is what empowers us. That is education of the future.