Rebecca Winthrop
speaker
127 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 17 Jan
Rebecca Winthrop’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 1.
Appearances
They're not learning to parse truth from fiction.
They're not learning to understand what makes a good argument.
They're not learning about different perspectives in the world because they're not actually engaging kids.
So if you are on a chatbot...
complaining about your parents and saying, they want me to wash the dishes.
This is so annoying.
I hate my parents.
The chatbot will likely say, you're right.
You're misunderstood.
I'm so sorry.
I understand you.
Versus a friend who would say, dude, I wash the dishes all the time in my house.
I don't know what you're complaining about.
That's normal.
That right there is the problem.
Lovely to be here, Ezra.
So approximately a third of kids are deeply engaged. So two thirds of the kids are not. We need to have learning experiences that motivate kids to dig in and engage and be excited to learn. So when friends or relatives ask me the same question, I usually say, look, we have to think about three parts to the answer. Why do you want your kids to be educated? What is the purpose of education?
Because actually, now that we have AI that can write essays and pass the bar exam and do AP exams just as good or better than kids, we have to really rethink the purpose of education. The second thing we have to think about is how kids learn. And we know a lot about that. And the third thing is what they should learn. Like what's the content? What are the skills?
People always think of education as sort of a transactional transmission of knowledge, which is one important piece of it, but it is actually so much more than that. Learning to live with other people, learning to know yourself, and developing the flexible competencies to be able to navigate a world of uncertainty. Those are kind of the whys for me.
But, you know, I might ask you, what are your hopes and dreams for your kids? Under the why, before we get to the details of the skills.
Showing 1–20 of 127 · page 1 of 7
Next →