In the age of Artificial Intelligence, schools and universities have to fundamentally rethink their approach to education, Kristina Kallas, Estonia’s Minister of Education and Research, argues in her DLD26 talk.
“Humans have to outperform computers, because if the computers are outperforming humans, it’s a question of who controls the cognitive world”, Kallas notes.
In response, education has to move beyond memorization toward analysis, evaluation, and creativity, because AI already matches or surpasses humans in many routine cognitive tasks.
“We have to change our capacity of thinking”, Kallas demands. “The way our brain operates, the capacity of thinking has to change faster, more deeper, and more systematic thinking.”
Humans have done this before, she notes, for example after the invention of the printing press.
Watch the video to learn how Estonia is tackling this challenge, and how the country became one of the world’s leaders in education.
