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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016, 2028), legend has it that you are a person who is family oriented, you enjoy family get-togethers, indulge in family traditions, and you thrive in group work. If you were born in the Goat year (e.g.,1931, Zodiac animal: Monkey Monkeys are associated with long life and longevity.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. 1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. Not yet convinced?

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Can Work Be Dignified in an Automated World?

Edsurge

So, I took my own advice and followed through with that and returned to the University of Michigan where I'd been on the faculty from 1989 to 2004. McKinsey predicts that somewhere between 400 million and 800 million people will lose their jobs by 2030 as a result of automation. Demographers say that by 2044 the U.S.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

” Every year since 2004, the New Media Consortium, a non-profit organization that advocates for new media and new technologies in education, has issued its own forecasting report, the Horizon Report, naming a handful of technologies that, as the name suggests, it contends are “on the horizon.”

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10 years later, goal of getting more Americans through college is way behind schedule

The Hechinger Report

The proportion of nurses with bachelor’s degrees is up from 44 percent to 57 percent since 2004, but still far short of the goal of reaching 80 percent by next year set by the Institute of Medicine to deal with the increasing complexity of healthcare. Matt Rourke/AP. Annual household incomes for all Americans would drop. Need a nurse?

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