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Something to Think About… Who’s Going to Teach Our Kids? by Bill Attardi

William Attardi on October 29, 2025

Good question, huh.  Better question is how are they going to learn in this rapidly accelerating digital age?  Before we can answer these questions, what’s changing on the learning front?     (By the way, that’s why I created LearnersLive.com, to encourage deep learning)

Learning is something we should do every day of our lives…………well, that’s a should and may not be a could. So how do we learn?  Maybe how did and will we learn?  More questions… sorry about that.  Some answers……….  Let’s look at four traditional pillars of learning and how artificial intelligence (AI) is not just assisting them, but rapidly replacing them:

  1. The Teachers: Many Teachers in our life from grade school thru higher education stood in front of the classroom and learned us: Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic, remember? They were the primary drivers in making us smarter. Well, AI may be replacing us. AI-powered Robots could be standing in front of the class with unmatched expertise, access to big data, all the knowledge ever recorded, a higher degree of teaching capability that can customize instruction to every single student simultaneously. Written assignments will be analyzed for clarity, grammar, and style, and suggesting improvements no human could match in speed and scale never seen before. The traditional teaching paradigm is crumbling.
  2. The Public Library: The beautiful grand building we used to bike to, flip through card catalogs, and pray the book wasn’t checked out. The tactile process looking for information, searching for a book, an article, a paper, with the right enlightenment, to learn what we did not know or confirm what we did know. Today it’s e-books………..changing out reading behavior but it’s still a book. Who will go to that Library anymore when the AI Library is accessible to everyone. A vast “Big Data” library containing everything ever written, indexed perfectly, accessible instantly to everyone. The days of hunting and gathering information are over.  You can go to the AI Library in your pajamas and learn.
  3. The Encyclopedia: The multi-volume encyclopedia was your personal home library of information. We learned general background information on most topics from a collection of books on our shelf at home.  The biggest benefit: it was all in alphabetical order, to make it easy to find stuff.  Talk about the ultimate low-tech hack for finding stuff. When you think about it, how smart was that back then……..really?  Try selling your old Encyclopedia Britannica today on eBay.  Fuggeddaboudit!  Forget about flipping through volumes of information for hours. Just prompt AI, and it retrieves precise answers to anything you want to know instantly.
  4. The News & Media: Communications vehicles from newspapers to radio, to TV, to cable, to social media, to podcasts, etc., we’ve always brainstormed ideas and information to spark debate or for insight into current events. Not going away…….actually expanding, reaching more people in changing communications formats, some not currently known.  Many have walked away from TV news and newspapers and get their news on social media right now. AI will be the driving force behind the quality of the information we will receive in the future. AI aggregates, compares and evaluates all that thinking now, helping us form sharper, more accurate conclusions. In such a divided world, pray that this is a way to flag bias, to cross-check facts, to highlight contradictions. To help us cut through the noise to find the signal in world events.  Perhaps finding the truth won’t be so challenging.  This could be the greatest contribution AI will ever make. How good is that!

Maybe you noticed, I reference artificial intelligence (AI) a lot. I believe it is the most powerful learning tool ever created. It can make us all smarter……isn’t that what learning is all about?  AI strengthens our written and oral communication skills, supercharges our critical thinking, increases our competency, ultimately boosts our confidence to accomplish more than we ever thought possible.

 You won’t lose your job to AI—you’ll ‘lose your job to somebody who uses AI’.  Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO

Brace yourself folks, Robots, Smart Robots powered by AI may, no, will be teaching our kids. Not only in the classroom but you will buy RoboAI to help your kids learn at home too. 

Challenge me, please… if you do not agree with any of this.

               

But in closing, I do have a warning.  In this high-tech digital age, we are all addicted to our machines and devices. Hard to teach our kids to put down that smart phone or stop with the social media jazz when we are so dependent on it too. Communications are best practiced one-on-one / person-to-person.  Connecting with people emotionally as well as intellectually. My concern going forward is the danger of a most essential part of everyone’s overall health: the personal development & growth of human relationships.  That may be where artificial intelligence has its limitations.

Why LearnersLive.com, I offer the following…

William Attardi on April 29, 2025

Maybe you noticed but we expanded EnergyWatch into LearnersLive.com this year, to offer information you may not know.  I have a passion for teaching, for learning……been doing it most of my life and for the past 20+ years at Monmouth University. Want to continue doing it as long as God allows.  Here’s the plan:

  • LearnersLive Objective: to learn something you do not know; to confirm what you already know!
  • To post something for you to learn…a continuing learning experience.
  • Focus will be on topics of learning…..I have a dozen courses we can add to the curriculum right away…..all virtual……from 10 minute to 30 minute sessions. Completed five so far…
  1. Effective Sales Presentation Skills – Learning Session #1, #2, #3
  1. Selling in the Executive Suite
  2. SWOT Analysis and Generative AI
  3. Customer-Centric in the Digital Age
  4. Coming in June: Innovation in the digital Age

What I’ve Learned Over Many Years Trying to Do the Right Thing

  1. I have to start with what some say is the first commandment of success: Get a good education / develop a skill in something you really love to do and work hard at it. It really is that simple. Competency leads to confidency!
  2. Never worry about your next job……work hard at the job you have and the promotions will come. A sports lesson: athletes understand that the best are playing in the playoff games. They just cannot worry about the next team they may play if they want to beat the team they are playing.
  3. If you have a manager title, your primary responsibility is to develop the people who report to you…….don’t just manage, teach
  4. Critical: develop both your oral and written communications skills at the highest level of your capability. No matter your job or position, your ability to communicate effectively will determine your relationships and your success in those relationships.
  5. When you are asked to present / teach what you know and give to others. Be sure to entertain as well as inform. In today’s electronic information age, it’s the only way they will listen.
  6. If everyone agrees with you then you are doing all the thinking. Encourage others to debate the issues and make decisions based on divergent intelligent thoughts.  Education happens when you learn from others.
  7. Love your family and your friends and don’t hate your enemies. Hate gets in the way of doing a good job as a parent, as a loyal friend, as a successful person.
  8. Never stop learning. It should never be final.  I’m learning something new every day, learning more and more as we go through lifMake time to read for information and for pleasure too. It really helps to escape the pressures of everyday living.
  9. Go to church or your chosen house of worship and give just one hour a week to God to thank him for your blessings. It may not have to be more than that.  It can be that one hour when you can pray and meditate and feel a sense of calm that refreshes your thoughts and better prepares you for life’s struggles.
  10.  Never retire! Why would you want to stop what you love to do and are good at it?

The First Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica Is Published on Dec. 10, 1768  The Encyclopedia Britannica, the oldest continuously published and revised work in the English language, was first made available to the public in Edinburgh, Scotland. This monumental work, which would go on to become a cornerstone of knowledge, marked the beginning of a publication that has influenced generations of scholars, students, and curious minds around the world.  The Encyclopædia Britannica was the brainchild of Colin Macfarquhar, a Scottish printer and bookseller, and Andrew Bell, a Scottish engraver. Together, they sought to create an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible work that would encapsulate the growing body of knowledge of their time.  What began as a small printing project in Edinburgh grew into one of the most influential reference works in the world, providing access to knowledge and intellectual insight for generations, helping to shape the way we think about history, science, culture, and the world around us. Today, the Encyclopedia Britannica is regarded as one of the most influential reference works in the world. Our personal library to help us learn.  I hear  something better is coming along………