How to educate in the Agentic Era
I believe education as we know it is dying, and that this death is not a tragedy but an opportunity. This whitepaper articulates my thesis on how to educate in the Agentic Era: a civilisational transition where AI agents co-learn with humans, where encyclopaedic knowledge loses value, and where the Qualitas Doctrine demands reformulating the educational contract. I propose the ZOE (Educational Zone of Proximal Development) framework as an agentic extension of Vygotsky, redefine the teacher role as curator of meaning, and deliver a specific roadmap for Latin America within the framework of Industry 6.0 and the Agentic Economy. My thesis: we do not educate for jobs that will not exist, we educate for humans who will exist.
Authors
- Chris Meniw (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4417-1944)
Institutions
- CHDI Foundation (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-05-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20469317
- Primary Topic
- Educational Leadership and Innovation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00