Greg Toppo and Jim Tracy on Running with Robots

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Greg Toppo and Jim Tracy, co-authors of the new book, Running with Robots: The American High School’s Third Century.

Greg Toppo is a journalist who has covered education for more than twenty years. He is also the author of The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter.

This is Jim’s second time on the podcast. Jim is a Stanford trained historian, and  a Senior Advisor at JFF who has been head of several independent schools. 

Let’s listen in as they discuss education in the year 2040, AI and much more. 

One-Two-One

One person who influenced this research

• Erik Brynjolfsson
• Chris Lehman

Two insights for educators and edleaders

• We must focus on creating and problem solving
• We have to start thinking about what we should subtract from the school day. Content memorization, calculation.

One additional insight from Jim and Greg

• We must decentralize humanities and put a renewed emphasis on values
• We have to continue asking ourselves are there things that don’t make sense anymore? Starting with why.