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Industry to Educators: Teach Human Skills, Not Just AI
Mike Kentz, How We Frame Machines, 2026/06/23

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The headline here is that "a year after 250 CEOs demanded mandatory AI education, industry leaders are zeroing in on the durable 'human' skills they can't hire for." That sounds good, but as always, I would warn against depending on industry leaders to define what should be taught. For one thing, it's often wrong. But more importantly, their advice is intended to benefit them, not the students. Consider this: "what we need is to figure out how to teach the human skills – how to teach future-proof skills that set an employee up for success no matter what domain they find themselves in." Why would this be important. Well, it could be because technology is changing so rapidly. But from where I sit, it's just as likely that employers want to hire human cogs they can quickly 'retrain' and slot into positions the employees never expected to be doing when they were hired - a lot like the way Facebook transferred software engineers into data-labeling peons.

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This Week in Student Success
Glenda Morgan, On Student Success, 2026/06/23

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I'm not sure 'disjuncture' is the best word for the contradictions being described by Glenda Morgan in this article on the differences between what teachers think they are delivering and what students think they are receiving. But the point is still valid. For example, "When asked whether they were incorporating real-world projects into their courses, between 58% and 73% of faculty said they were, depending on whether workforce readiness was a high priority for them. Yet only 26% of students reported completing a real-world project in a course." Considering the difference in employment between those who did, and did not, receive workplace experience, you can see ho important this is.

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3 Fresh Ideas for Structuring Professional Development
Jennifer Gonzalez, Cult of Pedagogy, 2026/06/23

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If you wanted to make a keynote feel more like indoctrination than an opportunity to stretch the mind, I can't thing of a better method. The '3 fresh strategies' come strain from that playbook: first, facilitated pre- and post-keynote sessions, to frame it; second, a curated Q&A session to screen participant interaction; and third, mandatory poster sessions. Now I admin, I might have been a bit jaded, after reading the sixteen Principles of Learning authored by presenters Jenn White and Josh Kurzweil. I mean, maybe this approach is good for children (though I doubt it). But speaking for myself, I would find such a tightly regimented professional development event to be a form of torture.

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