Reconnecting to Our Humanity
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From a fellow classmate at Harvard, “The only way for humans to compete with technology is to become more human.” (From the Future of Learning, Summer, 2013)
As I have written lately, the more technologically advanced society becomes, the less humans are valued for doing jobs that can be outsourced to computers. So the question we educators are constantly grappling with is, “What do we need to teach the youth of today, in order for them to be competitive in our new high tech world?
The overly obvious answer seems to be “computer skills,” but life is much more complex than that! Mika, one of my classmates this summer helped us realize that being MORE human, and therefore, more HUMANE, was the solution. As educators, the moral curriculum is more important than ever.
