Katharyn HavensFounder, Kairos Rise · Educational Innovator

Reinvent Education First Ask What's it For? And a Guitar

Name: Reinvent Education First Ask What's it For? And a Guitar
Uploaded: 2026-01-28T11:45:05+00:00
Duration: 1 min 48 s
Channel: Katharyn Havens
Description: In this monologue, Katharyn Havens challenges the current discourse on education in an AI‑driven world. She argues that the central question is not how…

28 Jan 2026 · 2 min

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In this monologue, Katharyn Havens challenges the current discourse on education in an AI‑driven world. She argues that the central question is not how much AI should be used, what languages to teach, or how to prevent outsourcing learning to AI, but how to prepare students to thrive beyond standardized tests. Havens stresses the need for dual fluency: mastery of technology alongside uniquely human abilities that AI cannot replicate. She warns that traditional jobs will disappear, requiring future generations to constantly reinvent themselves, learn quickly, and combine disparate skills to create new opportunities. To embody this vision, she introduces "Kairos Learning," a hybrid approach that blends tech fluency, human fluency, and creative expression (even strumming a guitar). She invites viewers to subscribe, attend pop‑up sessions in Nairobi, and experience this new educational model firsthand.

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If only we were asking the right questions about school. It's not how much AI should they use, and it's not how can we keep them from outsourcing their learning to AI. It's not even should they be learning a foreign language or not. The real question is how do you prepare them not to just pass a test, but to actually kick ass in life? How do you teach them to be ready for a future that is something we have never seen before or probably can't even imagine. You have to teach them the skills of being fluent in technology, but also fluent in how to be human and the things that only we can do, the things that AI can't do. There's going to be no jobs that we traditionally know about. They're going to have to reinvent themselves, create jobs, figure out how to learn something quickly and combine it with something else and create something new. And that's the real question: how do we teach them to do that? Not just memorize, because teaching it to a test just means that they can pass a test. So if you're thinking about reinventing education and coming up with something that really is going to benefit our kids in the future. Stay tuned to my channel. Subscribe to learn more. I'll be doing pop-ups around Nairobi. If you're in the area, you can even come and hang out with us for a day and see how we do this thing called Kairos Learning, which is a mix-up of tech fluency and human fluency and a little bit of strumming a guitar along the way.