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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! It’s a culmination of robotics and programming being taught at every grade level.

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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. According to Dell Technologies and the Institute for the Future, 85 percent of the jobs in 2030 don’t exist yet.

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How Much Artificial Intelligence Should There Be in the Classroom?

Edsurge

We can build robot teachers, or even robot teaching assistants. One of the events we attended was a two-day conference about artificial intelligence in education organized by a company called Squirrel AI. in AI technology by the year 2030, so there is almost a Sputnik-like push for the tech going on right now in China.

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

The Hechinger Report

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. Carnevale told me that, first of all, the story of robots creating mass unemployment has been overhyped. Automation threatens 47 percent of jobs.

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Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

The Hechinger Report

Many of his friends took the same shortcut to good jobs at companies including Sony and Lockheed Martin. The skills academy at which Seck teaches is run by Synchrony, a national financial services company headquartered in Stamford. They also practice skills in the hot fields of 3D printing and robotics. “We

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How China is Trying to Outpace the World in AI

Evelyn Learning

Now, technology is the new power weapon in this new era of computers and robots. Harvard Professor of Economics, David Yang, recently enlightened us about the US ranking of the top companies with the most accurate technology in facial recognition. Out of nearly 50 companies, the top five were Chinese companies.

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Community Colleges Have Long Powered the Economy. To Sustain That Role, They Must Innovate.

Edsurge

Compare that to companies today, like the e-commerce giant Amazon, which in 2019 reportedly employed 798,000 persons and is currently projected to employ more than 1 million by the end of 2020. By 2030, all baby boomers will be age 65 or older. At its peak, coal production employed more than 862,000 persons as coal miners.

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