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

Edsurge

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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Understanding and Unleashing Student Creativity

EdTechTeacher

These advances in “machine learning” have led the World Economic Forum to predict that by 2025, robots will handle 52 percent of current work tasks and that by next year, “even work tasks overwhelmingly performed by humans today — communicating, interacting, coordinating, managing and advising — will begin to be taken on by machines”.

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What's That Liberal Art Degree Worth?

Edsurge

One great example: OpenTable, which won its fame by created the software that helps us make reservations at restaurants. Similarly while AI and smart robots give many people the jitters, the Gartner research group now predicts that by 2020, AI will create more jobs than it destroys. Let’s dub this ‘the rapport sector,’” he writes.

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EduCon 2023

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

I first heard about SLA/EduCon when reading Reinventing Project-Based Learning last fall, and then read about SLA again a few months later as one of four schools highlighted in Running with Robots. For example, he recommended having all stakeholders (educators and community members) meet for a "Salon Dinner."

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What does ‘career readiness’ look like in middle school?

The Hechinger Report

Juliet won’t finish high school before 2025, but the 11-year-old already has big plans: She wants to be a mechanical engineer. Currently, Williams students have the option of participating in two career preparation programs — robotics, and computing and coding — based on curricula designed by Project Lead the Way.

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What Does ‘Career Readiness’ Look Like in Middle School?

MindShift

Juliet won’t finish high school before 2025, but the 11-year-old already has big plans: She wants to be a mechanical engineer. Currently, Williams students have the option of participating in two career preparation programs — robotics, and computing and coding — based on curricula designed by Project Lead the Way.

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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. As robots take over much of the manual labor in factories, the new jobs being created tend to require computer and engineering skills and advanced training. million by 2025 — is contributing to that gap. Today, the sector employs roughly 12.4 Nationwide, about 3.5

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