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The idea of mastery and the ability to hone math and reading comprehension compared to skills such as resilient minds and healthy bodies, critical thinking, collaboration, problem-solving, empathy, inclusiveness and globalization. , will be less relevant to future graduates. Citizenship, according to the president of the Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE).
Dan Schwartz of GSE Dean assessing the rapidly changing tech landscape and its impact on higher education at this year’s Arizona State University and Global Silicon Valley (ASU+GSV) Summit in San Diego, USA on April 17. said: We are at an inflection point in what we can do with learning. ”
He said future change will be accelerated by an influx of data, coupled with innovative technology, increasing empiricism and the pressing need for solutions to difficult problems.
He said at a conference that higher education needs to embrace, rather than exclude, artificial intelligence and related emerging technologies such as ChatGPT and GPT-4, increasingly ubiquitous AI apps.
technology makes a difference
Using technology can really make a difference, as demonstrated by a Stanford University study that assessed middle school grades and the associated study time, and how poor sleep in students negatively impacts memory retention. is shown. The results persuaded California education officials to start middle school in the morning, Schwartz said.
Universities need to respond quickly to the potential of computing power to drive such advances in the world of AI, he said.
“Their specialty is long-term basic research that changes the world, but we are not good at quick responses.
Christopher Shryock, senior vice president and chief people officer of US-based wholesale retailer Sam’s Club, said at the Arizona State University (ASU) and Global Silicon Valley (GSV) conferences April 17-19. In the event, the job will be “rapidly automated”.
he said: Critical thinking, innovation, creativity, resilience, the ability to guide and influence others—many of these softer skills—are all things that will bring out the skills of the future.”
“The skills you get from liberal arts colleges will be what separates successful and unsuccessful organizations in the future,” he said, something universities should consider.
Need for coding skills
But Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit, a San Francisco-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that helps customers create online projects and write code, says computer coding isn’t something students can learn yet. He says it’s one of the technical skills he needs. This is because although AI itself can write code, it can be a useful assistant in software development.
“It’s a great time to learn how to code,” he said. Understand the basic syntax that is the basis of the structure of programming, “You can create a startup in cooperation with AI”, students learn the programming language Python for a month part-time, and use AI to make useful software build the
Developers can be creatively guided in AI coding through a chat system, create software that can be debugged using such AI systems, and “deploy your app and earn your first dollar.” can.
Knowing the basics of coding is helpful, he said, but human coding experts will still be needed to check this work.
Charles Chen, principal founder of China-based internet and technology company Tencent, said of AI: “The future is here, like it or not.”
Cheng is also the founder of the Edan Award, which rewards contributions to educational research and development. He said the deployment of his AI systems, such as ChatGPT and GPT-4, highlights why higher education should not only “focus on knowledge delivery” but also teach “wisdom… creative leadership and grit.” said he did.
To highlight the potential value of AI systems, he asked ChatGPT what he thought were the current key challenges for education. quality, teacher training and retention, funding, assessment and accountability, and globalization.
Asking the GPT-4 the same question revealed the same answer, along with several additional areas for reform, particularly the relevance of curriculum, early childhood education, and higher education work. In Chen’s view, education is “about developing virtue, self-love and love of others, and the future path of education is the journey from knowledge to wisdom”.
Role of the private sector
Chip Paucek, co-founder and CEO of 2U, is an American educational technology (ed-tech) that works with universities to build, deliver, and support online degree and non-degree programs, and the private sector is a key player. said to play a role. Help higher education take advantage of the latest technology.
But despite the US$7 trillion spent on the global education market, there is no leading global education technology company despite the growing 2U.
“We have been a capital conduit … we have been investing in this field with our university partners for about 15 years and have been able to make a profit,” he notes, noting that generating income in higher education is I emphasized that it is not easy.
There is resistance to private companies entering the higher education sector, he said.
“If we continue to think that for-profit education is inherently bad, we have a huge problem for the whole industry…we need more successful companies.”
Additional services are clearly needed, Paucek said. For example, he puts 3 million black American men back into education who have college credits they haven’t completed. “This is a national crisis. If it’s not for private industry, who would attack it?” Paucek asked the conference.
His company is currently suing the U.S. Department of Education over new guidance requiring online program managers working at institutions of higher education, such as 2U, to report and audit their university transactions.
This is excessive and violates federal law, Paucek argued, and said such actions discourage private investment in higher education in the United States.
“Right now, venture capital and private equity are looking at things like these regulations [and concluding] Why invest in this sector? ‘ This would prevent private industry from driving down the cost of higher education, he said.
“Platform of the future [can] It will increase efficiency and reduce costs,” he said, adding that “there is nothing inherently wrong with that” and calling for discussion on “how to increase investment in this area.”
