Two speakers debate what skills matter most for kids as technology accelerates. One argues for coding, the other says focus on distinctly human activities: watching movies, playing sports, learning instruments. Screen time moderation matters too.
One thing I like to ask a lot of guests. I have a 12 year old son and I always think about what should I be teaching him right now? What would you be teaching a child right now? Because it feels like things are changing so fast that it's maybe coding for logic, but are they actually going to be coding? So maybe they need more like interpersonal skills to talk to people, business deals and like, I don't know.
The thing that I would encourage, like every person in that age is to sort of study and absorb the things that I think make us uniquely human. Especially as we start to see these models become better and better at coding. You know, think about the example we just gave about, about like Gemini 3, making suggestions, tasteful ones, right? Like that you, you kind of imagine is like, whoa. And so the thing that I had said was like, go watch movies, play sports, learn musical instruments.
What? Called my son too. I was like, as long as you do it in moderation, like it's actually good to like play games and watch movies. As long as you're not doing it all the time.
I think like it's a good, it's a good kind of foil because it sort of challenges you to feel one way or another. The reason why I would encourage you this is like you also learn a lot about yourself.
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