What schools as they are currently configured can ‘teach’ this? I don’t even know enough to answer that question, but I suspect ‘none’ is the correct answer for now.
And taken one step down the adjacencies, how does AI fit here in the ‘curriculum’? Laughable when you put it in now defunct eduspeak like –curriculum or syllabus.
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In 2019 Kevin wrote an article about an on-line community called “Nerdfighters”. Here’s the link. https://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2019/03/17/clmooc-book-group-exploring-the-world-of-nerdfighters/
Groups like this might already be taking the role you are asking schools to “teach”.
One of the reasons I have supported volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs that operate in the non-school hours and from space in the community, not the school, is that those programs have freedom to innovate what they share with the youth who come to their programs.
That means that even if the local school is not able to teach some concepts, volunteers and staff in a neighborhood program that enrolls kids from that local school, could be teaching things schools don’t teach. That’s partially because the volunteers come from businesses where they use new technologies and ideas to do their work. Most teachers don’t have this depth of experience, because that’s not what teachers do, or what they are taught.
Thus a volunteer could look at your article and say “we could teach that”. All they would need would be to present a plan to the program staff, get approval, find the resources, and launch the activity.
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Exactly. We live in a brave new world, don’t we.