3 Things People Can Do In The Classroom That Robots Can't

3 Things People Can Do In The Classroom That Robots Can't Enlarge this image toggle caption LA Johnson/NPR LA Johnson/NPR How should schools best prepare kids to live and work in the second half of the 21st century? Over the past four years she convened a global task force with representatives of 100 countries to think through the question: "What are the skills every kid in the world needs?" "Kids need to be adaptable, work with others, and have a thirst for learning if they're going to be lifelong learners," says Winthrop. "The people who said, 'No way, we have way more ambitions for our kids than just learning how to read,' were the people from South Asia and Africa and Latin America," she says.