If you have a kid in college or university, you’re asking the question: should we teach them AI? The answer is yes. Not as a bonus course for nerds, but as a basic skill, like knowing how to use Excel or Word.<\/p>\n
Imagine you need to prepare a student for a job they’ll have in 2028. The chances that job involves working with AI? Extremely high. Even if it’s just to verify that AI’s output makes sense. Even an archivist, a nurse, an electrician will cross paths with AI at some point.<\/p>\n
The problem? Colleges and universities are dragging their feet<\/strong>. Meanwhile, other countries are training their young people to use these tools critically and creatively.<\/p>\n You don’t need everyone to become a machine learning expert. You need everyone to understand: what can AI do and not do? What are the traps? How do you ask a good question to an AI tool? How do you spot an answer that looks right but isn’t?<\/p>\n It’s like learning to read and write. You need to know how the tool works so it isn’t imposed on you.<\/p>\n For a graphic design student? Yes, learn to make images with AI. Then learn to modify them, critique them, understand the aesthetics coming out of the machine. For a law student? Learn how AI can do legal research faster, but understand its limits. For a health student? Discover how AI helps with diagnosis, but doesn’t replace human judgment.<\/p>\n The real change is that AI will transform how<\/strong> we teach. A literature professor can use AI to generate historical context. A science professor can have students run AI-simulated experiments before the real ones. It frees up time for discussions, creativity, critical thinking.<\/p>\n But we need to train the teachers too. Otherwise, you get educators who are scared and ban ChatGPT, rather than teaching their students to use it wisely.<\/p>\n In Quebec, we have an opportunity: we can learn from others’ mistakes. We can build a Quebec approach \u2014 humanistic, critical. Not just copy what Americans do. Laeka Research<\/a><\/strong> works on exactly these questions: how do we train people, from high school to SMBs, for inclusive AI rooted in our realities? To explore this more, check out Sherpa<\/a><\/strong>, our educational platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you have a kid in college or university, you’re asking the question: should we teach them AI? The answer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-in-quebec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What we should teach (spoiler: not just coding)<\/h2>\n
It’s not just a course: it’s a pedagogical revolution<\/h2>\n