How to educate the next generation of college students to invent,
to create, and to discover-filling needs that even the most
sophisticated robot cannot. Driverless cars are hitting the road,
powered by artificial intelligence. Robots can climb stairs, open
doors, win Jeopardy, analyze stocks, work in factories, find
parking spaces, advise oncologists. In the past, automation was
considered a threat to low-skilled labor. Now, many high-skilled
functions, including interpreting medical images, doing legal
research, and analyzing data, are within the skill sets of
machines. How can higher education prepare students for their
professional lives when professions themselves are disappearing? In
Robot-Proof, Northeastern University president Joseph Aoun proposes
a way to educate the next generation of college students to invent,
to create, and to discover-to fill needs in society that even the
most sophisticated artificial intelligence agent cannot. A
"robot-proof" education, Aoun argues, is not concerned solely with
topping up students' minds with high-octane facts. Rather, it
calibrates them with a creative mindset and the mental elasticity
to invent, discover, or create something valuable to society-a
scientific proof, a hip-hop recording, a web comic, a cure for
cancer. Aoun lays out the framework for a new discipline, humanics,
which builds on our innate strengths and prepares students to
compete in a labor market in which smart machines work alongside
human professionals. The new literacies of Aoun's humanics are data
literacy, technological literacy, and human literacy. Students will
need data literacy to manage the flow of big data, and
technological literacy to know how their machines work, but human
literacy-the humanities, communication, and design-to function as a
human being. Life-long learning opportunities will support their
ability to adapt to change. The only certainty about the future is
change. Higher education based on the new literacies of humanics
can equip students for living and working through change.
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