April DeGennaro wrote:

> Is it correct to think of AI as an addition to a basic tool belt or is
> AI replacing the need for other things we are teaching?

I think this is correct.  The AI tools we're seeing now are really
powerful additions to our existing computing tool belt.  And because
these tools are going to be reshaping society in the coming years,
students need to learn about them.  But it's not the case that we can
stop teaching existing math or science or language arts topics because
now we have useful AI tools.

Technological advances do sometimes make knowledge obsolete.  The
adoption of the automobile led to people no longer needing to learn
basic horsemanship.  Most kids today can't even name the parts of a
horse or point to the withers or fetlock.  More recently, the universal
adoption of calculators means kids no longer have to practice the
tedious approximation of log and trig functions by interpolation from
tables.

But I don't think there's much in the modern curriculum that AI is going
to make obsolete.  Maybe in 20 years we'll stop teaching driver's ed.

-- Dave