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In Announcing Winners of Higher Ed Challenge, Ed Dept Looks Ahead to 2030

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Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology held its first major event in nearly two years on Thursday, and the main takeaway is that the office is busy planning for the future—2030, to be exact. The company expects 180 crewmembers to graduate by the end of the year, Simi said.

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5 Ways To Bring SEL Into Edtech Classroom Use

The CoolCatTeacher

Sponsor : Urkund Urkund is great as a plagiarism prevention tool and connects with most common Learning Management Systems like Google Classroom, Moodle, and Canvas or as a stand-alone web tool or by email. In his current role Mark has led the Class of 2030 and Emotion and Cognition in the Age of AI global research initiatives.

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STEM Helps Students Launch into the Future

EdTech Magazine

In fact, according to a 2017 report by Dell , 85 percent of the jobs that will exist in 2030 haven’t even been invented yet. MORE FROM EDTECH: See how K–12 schools and companies are partnering to prepare their students for a digitally driven workforce! Employable Skills and Real-World Solutions Grow from STEM. by Ryan Petersen.

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OPINION: How schools can find common ground in an era of education wars

The Hechinger Report

At the same time, McKinsey & Company estimates that automation and artificial intelligence will displace between 400 and 800 million jobs globally by 2030. And traditional public schools are facing increased competition from charter schools and independent schools.

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A Bootcamp Down Under: Trilogy Education Extends University Tech Training Globally

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As technology companies from Google to Salesforce plant roots in Australia, government and business leaders down under are trying to figure out ways to train students and workers to keep up with a changing workforce. company thinks it can help prepare the country’s future programmers. In the U.S.,

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

Edsurge

In a world where the largest software vendors like Apple and Google don’t write the apps, we are at a tipping point as the worldwide gap widens between skills delivered by the current educational systems and those required by the digital economy. Distance reduction allow companies to compete worldwide.

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Education Looks Eastward: Snapshots from Beijing's Global Education Technology Summit

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China had a reputation for copying technology from Silicon Valley, but these days the country has developed its own unique technology environment—what a new book by Kai-Fu Lee, former head of Google China, calls an “alternate internet universe.” It’s also a place where companies are racing into technologies that raise tough ethical issues.