Jon Fortt tells educators to stop training students for specific jobs that AI might eliminate. Instead, teach writing, speaking, and collaborative media production. These durable skills work in any future job market.
My main piece of advice for educators in middle school and high school, preparing kids for careers would be don't. Don't prepare them for careers. Because the careers that we think are going to exist tomorrow probably won't really what they should be doing. If they're interested in media, they're interested in journalism. The writing, the speaking, the explaining is working on projects that involve that. But more collaborating with each other on written projects, spoken projects, podcasts, broadcasts. Understanding how to communicate both with an audience and with a team to create a piece of content for an audience. Because I don't think that's going to change. Wherever this AI era takes us, it's going to have a lot to do with that. Figuring out how to use technology, work together, collaborate, and get something done.
