This article really resonnated with me as a woman of color trying to enter the tech-space, and my desire to enter the field of tech and computer science education in the future. Moreover, it caused me to reflect on parallels between Turing's pedagogical method, and what I learned working in Next Generation Learning.
The future of learning - both k-12 and adult learning - is student-centered. It automatically creates a more welcoming learning environments, which is one of the aspects to Harvey Mudd's approach. I also see a theme of building community and a network in order to uniliaterally increase chances of sucess. I was happy to see that the initiative was faculty-led, likely allowing their effort to be more agile, responding to what isn't working.
Framing Computer Science as creative problem solving not only seems valid, but effective, and would have 100% grabbed me as a freshman when instead I was intimidated to take CS classes. I'm excited to see this approach scaled nationally, and hope that it catches on quickly.
New Yorker - Empathy Article Response
Prior to reading this article I had only really thought about job growth being disrupted by increased automation in production, I had not really considered the impact of share economy that much farther than its affect on taxi drivers, but realize now that its so much more expansive than that, and that automation is affecting industries within their whole "economic ecosystem". We can't think of the economy in the same terms that we previously have. This reminds me, again, of our current outdated education system - which absolutely is interconnected with our economy. In order to modernize k-12 education we need to require computer science, which I consider to be a fundamental 21st Century skill, especially for future generations when they enter the work force.
It was also good to have a reminder of the "real world filter bubbles". I definitely experienced this in my upbringing, at an international school in Germany, and at a small liberal arts college in rural Central New York. It is so easy not to think or see outside of yourself and those you regularly get into contact to.