ai education for high schoolers too slow
From Peter Saddington - AGILE, STARTUPS, SELF-IMPROVEMENT! by PETER SADDINGTON
May 18, 2026 · 3 min
About this episode
The episode discusses the slow pace of AI education for high schoolers and the need for critical thinking in an AI-saturated world.
Today's article is from the New Hampshire Bulletin. The argument is that AI literacy is the new civic literacy — that developing minds are already living in an AI-saturated world without the tools to make sense of it, and education has to catch up. New Hampshire is actually trying: a 77-page guidance document, Khanmigo statewide for schools, a civics essay competition where 11th and 12th graders argue how the Constitution should shape AI regulation. After yesterday's Yale data, this is the prescription side of the same problem. New Hampshire is one state, 175,000 students. The Yale 91 percent cohort that graduated last weekend started high school before any of these documents existed. Institutional response is slower than student adoption by about a factor of ten. The 77-page document is real progress. It's also already late. Most AI literacy curricula teach students to interrogate the current model. Verify GPT-5 output. Identify Gemini 2.5 biases. But the model upgrades every quarter. Teaching kids to think about today's tool freezes the wrong target. Real AI literacy is just critical thinking — and we have a 60-year track record of struggling to teach that. The word "literacy"…
People in this episode
Host: Peter Saddington
Topics covered
- AI literacy
- education
- critical thinking
- high school
- curriculum development
- technology adoption
Keywords
- AI education
- literacy
- New Hampshire
- curriculum
- critical thinking
- students
- technology
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: New Hampshire Bulletin
Places: New Hampshire
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