Ryan Lufkin

How does that benefit us?

There's a really great story.

I was at California System meeting and we had a panel of educators.

It was a professor of product design.

And he said, okay, we used to spend the first 60% of a course designing a product, doing specs, doing market analysis, doing all this stuff.

The last 40% kind of analyzing the work, presenting to each other, things like that.

Now, AI...

We can do all of that within the first 10% of the course.

Come up with an idea, have AI help us do a product design, have it do the research around that for us.

Now, he makes his students actually reach out and contact experts in the market, set up a meeting, and present to them this idea and get their feedback.

And I always say, if I call my daughter, she won't answer the phone, she'll text me right back.

She's a...

junior in college.

She does not answer the phone.

She doesn't pick up the phone.

He's pushing those students to lean back into those more human skills, reaching out, making connections, setting up a presentation, presenting your thing, collecting feedback.

Those things that AI can't easily do for us, that's really the focus.

It's kind of that evolution in teaching.

We're not necessarily teaching entirely new things, but we're doing it in more innovative ways that lean into those human skills and not just assigning 20-page papers that kids are going to use AI to write.

Are schools teaching the wrong things or just teaching them the wrong way?