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Learning for the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Learning for the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Describes eight competences needed for the age of AI and discusses how to teach them.

2019

Alan M. Lesgold

Alan M. Lesgold

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Approaching Professional Reskilling Like We Approach Technology Transfer in Universities

I explore how universities learned to take ideas developed by their faculty and turn them into valued products and services, something…

Sep 15, 2023

Approaching Professional Reskilling Like We Approach Technology Transfer in Universities

Sep 15, 2023

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Can Universities Prepare People for the Future of Work?

Alan Lesgold and Michael Bridges, August 14, 2023

Aug 21, 2023

Can Universities Prepare People for the Future of Work?

Aug 21, 2023

The Second Tower of Babel

A side effect of generative AI could be further fractionation of our society.

May 29, 2023

The Second Tower of Babel

May 29, 2023

Personal Skills Advisors

Universities must do more to respond to the increased need for agile lifelong education and the difficulties people face in deciding what…

Apr 28, 2023

Personal Skills Advisors

Apr 28, 2023

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Standardized Tests: What We Learn from GPT-4

Standardized tests are used to screen applicants for work training programs and colleges; they also are used for licensure for many roles…

Apr 7, 2023

Students taking a test

Apr 7, 2023

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Toward a New Hidden Curriculum

More than thirty years ago, Philip Jackson observed that schools have a “hidden curriculum” designed to prepare students for productive…

Mar 1, 2022

Toward a New Hidden Curriculum

Mar 1, 2022

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Are Schools Preparing Our Children for Life?

Lack of basic education seriously hampers a person’s ability to have a decent life and precludes employment that can provide a livable…

Dec 17, 2021

Are Schools Preparing Our Children for Life?

Dec 17, 2021

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About Work — Introducing Ourselves

A Periodic Blog Moderated by Lia DiBello, Alan Lesgold, and Steve Reder

Nov 18, 2021

Nov 18, 2021

A Human Not Easily Replaced by a Computer Was Born 100 Years Ago Today

Dad combined deep learning with strong symbolic reasoning. Is simulating him successfully a better approach than Turing’s test?

Feb 15, 2021

Feb 15, 2021

Allowing Everyone a Chance at the American Dream

The story of Joseph’s dreams reminds us that we need to make changes so that everyone has a chance at the American Dream.

Dec 13, 2020

Dec 13, 2020

Alan Lesgold

Alan Lesgold

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Emeritus professor of education, psychology, and intelligent systems and former education dean at University of Pittsburgh.

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