01 Aug, 2017

Ken Goldberg Quoted in NYT on Preparing Preschoolers for an Automated Economy

As technological advances increase automation, researchers and parents alike are exploring what crucial skills - human skills, such as empathy and resilience, and technical skills, such as programming - should be prioritized in children's early education?

According to a recently published New York Times article, for some parents, the answer is coding, at as early of an age as 2 years old. EECS chairman Ken Goldberg had this to say:

"It's a real misnomer that simply learning to code is the answer... We don't need everybody to be extremeley capable Python coders. It's a way of understandng what machines are good at and what they're not good at - that's something everybody needs to learn."

Read more about this evolving conversation over at the Times.