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Can Creativity Be Taught?

Digital Promise

In fact, 85 percent of the jobs that will exist in 2030 haven’t even been invented yet, says a report by the Institute for the Future and a panel of 20 tech, business, and academic experts from around the world. Experts agree that creativity is critical to success in the future.

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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 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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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

The Hechinger Report

READ THE SERIES Meanwhile, the number of jobs in math occupations — which “use arithmetic and apply advanced techniques to make calculations, analyze data, and solve problems” — will have increased by 29 percent in the 10 years ending in 2031, or by more than 30,000 per year, Bureau of Labor Statistics figures show.

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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. Indulging in Artificial Intelligence to Improve Education China seems ahead and determined to improve its educational space by leveraging AI, big data, and cloud computing. 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

They also practice skills in the hot fields of 3D printing and robotics. “We Researchers at the Georgetown Center predict that by 2030 only 30 percent of jobs will be available to workers with just a high school education. Related: Many certificate programs don’t pay off, but colleges want to keep offering them anyway.

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

Hack Education

It’s a powerful story, but not a prediction made based on data or modeling or quantitative research into the growing (or shrinking) higher education sector. But the data is flawed. I don’t believe that robots will take, let alone need take, all our jobs. I don’t think so. Both of these predictions are fantasy.

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