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Education – Two Tiered: AI for the Masses, Teachers for the Few
As artificial intelligence storms the gates of education, a foundational divide is emerging—a split between algorithm-driven learning for most and human mentoring for a privileged minority. The automation of teaching isn’t a future threat; it’s happening right now in classrooms, universities, and online platforms from Singapore to Alberta. The AI Surge in…
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The Resume Is Dead: Why Thinking Skills Beat Credentials in the Age of AI
If you’re clinging to a resume stacked with degrees, you might be missing the tsunami rolling through the job market. For decades, the degree symbolized readiness: a passport to professional security, a distillation of ambition made credible. Today, that promise has ruptured. Employers—not just startups, but giants like Google, IBM, and Apple—are…
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The Coming AI-Driven Job Purge: Why Thinking Skills Are the Real Lifeboat
If you believe that the arrival of AI won’t lead to companies systematically disposing of people they no longer find economically valuable, you’re either naive or willfully blind. For decades, I watched the inhumane, often immoral corporate habit of cutting people loose whenever the numbers didn’t look right. Now, with AI poised…
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The Retraining Trap: Why Most Upskilling Programs Prepare You for Obsolete Jobs
Introduction Everywhere you turn, calls for “upskilling” and “retraining” ring out in response to rapid technological disruption. Governments, corporations, and universities urge workers to retool for the future, promising employability in fast-changing industries. But what if most of these upskilling efforts are simply funneling people into yesterday’s roles—jobs that are vanishing just…
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ACEs, Critical Thinking, Metacognition, Rational Thinking, Science of Learning - General, Society, Training
It’s Not How we do Higher Education, It’s What we do in Higher Education
We live in a complex world with a myriad of problems that need attention. We have what we need to seriously address them, but we have failed to develop what we most need – our human capital. Students enter higher education by the millions with 87% wanting nothing more than a degree…
