Education in 
the Age of AI

Everything is changing. Education must change, too.

Preparing young people for a world transformed by AI cannot mean simply giving them access to new technology, or banning it and hoping it goes away.

AI requires us to think again about what school is for. 

At LightHouse, we have been centering deeply human capacities for more than a decade: creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, empathy, vision, and personal agency.

In the age of AI, those capacities matter even more.
Young people also need AI fluency. They need to understand what these systems can do, where they fail, how to use them thoughtfully, and when using them actually gets in the way of learning.

That means learning to work with AI without outsourcing their own thinking.

Beginning with the Class of 2028, AI Fluency is a LightHouse graduation competency.

Artificial Intelligence is reshaping work. 
LightHouse is rethinking school.

The ability to remember information 
and complete assigned tasks 
is no longer an adequate skill set for the future of work.

Young people need to know how to ask good questions, evaluate information, solve unfamiliar problems, develop ideas, work with other people, and make things that matter.

They also need to know how to use powerful new technologies safely and without surrendering their own thinking to them.

At LightHouse, we start with the learning goal.

Sometimes AI can deepen learning.
Sometimes it gets in the way.

AI fluency means knowing
when to use it, how to use it, and when not to.

Rethinking the Purpose of Education

Interview with Ezra Klein and Rebecca Winthrop, the director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution about the future of education in the era of AI. Or read the transcript.

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Every young person deserves an education 
where they can thrive as themselves and develop 
the skills and confidence they need for what’s next.

Human capacities—art, purpose, connection—define the future of learning.

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