Abstract:

The world is currently accelerating towards an AI era, wherein many human cognitive skills will be augmented or even replaced by intelligent tools. Machines incorporating powerful learning algorithms to create new knowledge can pose a serious existential threat to the new generation of learners, often referred to as digital natives. It may require them to modify their learning styles suitably to circumvent emerging existential singularities it creates in the world of information. It can also lead digital natives towards a cognitive singularity, in which human thinking becomes progressively less relevant, which again calls for a change in their learning styles. In response to these turbulent transformations within the world of information on account of the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) transition underway, digital natives will be compelled to adopt new learning styles that are essentially autonomous, lifelong, venturesome, and flexible. This paper critically analyses the book Pedagogy of the Digital Natives: An Introduction to Entrepreneurial Education (2023) to evaluate its value as a new pedagogy to impart AI-resilient education to the digital natives, helping them navigate the existential and noetic singularities of the AI age. The proposed entrepreneurial pedagogy will be driven by the intrinsic learning motivations of digital natives and directed towards entrepreneurial learning outcomes. It aims at cultivation of an entrepreneurial mindset adorned with the appropriate skill set, which will be a prerequisite for career success in an AI age, in which career paths are predominantly defined as either entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial. The paper also examines the possibility of designing a suitable assessment framework as well as a curriculum framework for entrepreneurial education to render it universally applicable. It also delineates the necessary traits of the teachers of digital natives to meet the learning requirements of digital natives. In summary, this paper examines different aspects of the entrepreneurial pedagogy to assess its suitability as the pedagogy of digital natives in the AI age.

Keywords:

Pedagogy, Digital Natives, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Learning, Lifelong Learning, Venturesome Learning, Flexible Learning, Entrepreneurial Pedagogy, Psychometric Assessment, Entrepreneurial Curriculum.