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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

Edsurge

Some call it “The Rise of the Machines” for the convergence of multiple technologies: artificial intelligence, big data, data science, robotics plus virtual and augmented reality. To date, our education systems sit atop a cultural assumption—that information is scarce. Our higher education system formed around libraries.

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How do schools train for a workplace that doesn’t exist yet?

The Hechinger Report

Jobs in information technology are growing quickly and employers are trying to find ways to get kids excited about careers in the field. We’ve all heard the dire predictions about the coming robot apocalypse. As many as 800 million people worldwide could be displaced and need to find new jobs by 2030.

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How China is Trying to Outpace the World in AI

Evelyn Learning

The use of artificial intelligence to make learning more accessible, engaging, and advanced is our personal favorite. Now, technology is the new power weapon in this new era of computers and robots. This information is later used to improve the teaching styles of educators.

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Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

The Hechinger Report

He chose the nonprofit Per Scholas, which offers tuition-free information technology training. They also practice skills in the hot fields of 3D printing and robotics. “We Samaniego created the website Blue Agua as a class project to raise money for access to water for people who don’t have it.

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How Do You Prepare Students for Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet? Karen Cator Has Some Ideas.

Edsurge

There is a lot of talk these days about robots replacing humans in the workforce, but those conversations remain largely abstract. On the other side of that equation are educators, who often draw from their own learning experiences in K-12 and higher education to inform their instruction. It's a lot of professional development.

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

Hack Education

Because of the amount of information that is published about ed-tech – the amount of information, its irrelevance, its incoherence, its lack of context – it can be quite challenging to keep up with what is really happening in ed-tech. It is creating an unprecedented explosion in the production of information.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The governor of Virginia has approved a bill requiring all public higher education institutions in the state to take steps to adopt open educational resources – freely accessible and openly copyrighted educational materials.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.