Does it seem to you as if today’s kids are not as smart and lacking in common sense than previous generations? You’re not imagining things…

The current focus on education — treating the human brain like a computer and using artificial intelligence (AI) to feed it knowledge — may be great for sitting in front of a screen playing video games, but not so much on real learning and creativity, the one true superpower every human being has.

Educator Dr. Jared Horvath explains why today’s kids are cognitively declining and describes what we can do to reverse that downward trend this week on Spirit Gym.

Learn more about Jared at his LME Global website and on social media sites like Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and Instagram.

Timestamps

8:05 Pursuing the science of learning.

13:20 “The brain is not a computer, and you are not your brain.”

24:49 Our kids are losing their conceptual natures, and are cognitively declining.

27:56 Humanity’s greatest superpower.

32:32 The three stages of creativity.

35:30 Why are kids living East Asian countries smarter and more creative than those in America?

50:01 Why teachers don’t have a say in the education process.

58:20 Focusing on proximal goals versus distal goals.

1:09:29 Do you really understand the difference between opinions and knowledge?

1:16:01 AI falsely assumes human thought is best represented in speech.

1:21:00 The reification of education.

1:28:09 When Paul was a child, he dreamed of becoming a bank robber.

1:35:42 The breadth of your knowledge is only as good as the depth of it, which may explain why education is broken.

1:42:32 The importance of mastery.

1:53:07 Is it really cheaper for schools to divest from digital tech for physical education and the arts?

2:02:28 Why it is NOT important for kids to be taught how to use AI.

2:16:01 Jared’s real problem with AI, aside from the fact that it does nothing: Its intellectual heritage is hidden.

2:21:08 The tech outsourcing of basic parenting.

Resources

The Digital Delusion: How Classroom Technology Harms Our Kids’ Learning — And How To Help Them Thrive Again by Dr. Jared Horvath

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Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz), Composed, mixed, mastered and produced by Michael RB Schwartz of Brave Bear Music

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