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Complementing Human Minds with Digital Brains: GenAI and Higher Order Thinking Development

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While many forecasts chart an evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) in taking human jobs, more likely is a future where AI changes the division of labor in most work-roles, driving a need for workforce development to shift towards uniquely human skills. The global economy is moving into an era of Intelligence Augmentation, where the judgement and decision-making skills of humans are enhanced by the reckoning skills (e.g. calculations, analysis of multidimensional information, predictions) of computers or machine intelligence. Persons and machines work synergistically together to be better than their individual abilities. This framework implies that learning knowledge, skills, and dispositions for work should increasingly prioritize capability building of higher order thinking, creativity, and applied wisdom about contexts and cultures—at the expense of developing some reckoning skills that AI will assume.

In particular, creativity is defined as the ability to transcend conventional ideas to create novel and valuable outputs. Creative thinking drives innovation and addresses global challenges, advances industries, and is essential for overall societal progress. Human creativity can be amplified through collaboration with AI systems, but such collaboration must be designed thoughtfully to avoid unethical or plagiaristic outcomes.

To aid the development of higher order thinking, machine learning (ML) could be used to help “engineer” learning, by applying evidence-based strategies to the continual re-design of performance-based simulation experiences to optimize their effectiveness and efficiency. This will enable developing diagnostic/formative longitudinal assessments of judgement that complement our current high-stakes tests centered on reckoning.