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Why a Robot-Filled Education Future May Not Be as Scary as You Think

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The robots are coming, and some of them are charming. That was my reaction on a recent visit to Singularity University, when I met two robots named Pris and Pepper. We freeze up when we hear statistics that project that by 2025, 50 percent of an undergraduate degree will become obsolete. We cannot simply will it to let up.

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What's That Liberal Art Degree Worth?

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

Hack Education

The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. By 2012 – yes, thanks to its hardware business – Apple’s stock had risen to the point that the company was worth a record-breaking $624 billion. Where would you plot the Segway, for example? (In Virtual worlds in 2007, for example.

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Colleges are adding programs in a once-decimated industry — manufacturing

The Hechinger Report

million manufacturing jobs will need to be filled by 2025. But the strong economy, and the return of manufacturing operations to the United States as labor costs rise abroad , have led some companies to add jobs. Vermont is looking to increase employment and production at manufacturing companies throughout the state.

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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

The Hechinger Report

It also means fewer language programs, robotics labs and other enrichment opportunities that parents increasingly perceive as necessary. The first family told her they live in Mission Bay, a rapidly redeveloping area where a new elementary school isn’t scheduled to open until 2025. Often, they fail.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Without revenue the company will go away. And “free” doesn’t last.

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