AI is reshaping work faster than governments can write policy or schools can rewrite curriculum. The World Economic Forum projects that by 2030 the global economy will create about 170 million new jobs and displace about 92 million, and that 59 of every 100 workers will need retraining or new skills.
Education is still built for a slower world. It rewards the student who answers the question the teacher already knows. Diligence, honesty and hard work, the virtues many of us were raised on, still matter, but they are no longer enough on their own to prepare the next generation.
We do not believe the gap closes by teaching students to out-solve machines. It closes when students learn to find, frame and define the problems no one has named yet.
In March 2016, Lee Sedol lost the first three games of his match against AlphaGo. In Game 4 he played move 78, a move the program did not expect, and won. Earlier, in Game 2, it was the machine that had surprised the world with move 37, a move few human players would have chosen.
Move78 is named for the human reply: a creative move, made after deep thought, that nobody saw coming. That is the capacity we want every student to build.
Middle and high school students begin online in the United States. Two milestones mark the way: chapter 37 and chapter 78.
By chapter 37 a student can:
By chapter 78 a student can: