Rethinking coursework expectations in the AI era: Raising the floor and the ceiling
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Brian Heseung Kim
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The author reflects on a two-month tour giving AI workshops across academic and professional settings, where the recurring question was how to handle teaching and learning in the AI era. The post draws on analogies from high school English teachers and frontier AI model benchmarking to propose rethinking coursework expectations — both raising the floor (minimum standards) and the ceiling (aspirational outcomes). It offers challenging lines of thinking rather than blanket solutions, aiming to stir discussion around possibilities for education in the age of AI.
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· 4 pulledSo what are we going to do about teaching and learning in the era of AI?
This is a super complex issue that has no easy or blanket answers.
What I'll aim to do in this shorter post is suggest a few lines of challenging thinking to get people stirring around the possibilities.
I think there are two really nice analogues/parables I want to share.
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