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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. The company’s co-founder, Derek Li, said during a keynote that replacing some teaching functions with AI-powered software would supercharge the country’s education system. to the idea of bringing in robots for some teaching functions. But should we?

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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

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Credit: Reba Saldanha/AP There are deep shortages of workers in information technology fields, according to the labor market analytics firm Lightcast, which says that there were more than 4 million job postings over the last year in the United States for software developers, database administrators and computer user support specialists.

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

Hack Education

Software is eating the world,” investor Marc Andreessen pronounced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2011. “Over the next 10 years,” he wrote, “I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” (Note: there’s a response to this article by Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel, who builds teaching chat-bots, in the “robots” section below. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. School administration software-maker Connexeo has raised $110 million from Great Hill Partners. million total.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Economy by 2030.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. The discussion forum software maker has raised $2.4 . “Big claims leave educators with more questions than answers.” ” Imperil!! Via Education Week : “Is STEM Oversold as a Path to Better Jobs? It’s complicated.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The USA Today : “Kids on winning robotics team told, ‘Go back to Mexico’ ” The kids were from Pleasant Run Elementary School in Indianapolis. “Despite the buzz, competency-based education remains a challenging market for software vendors,” says Inside Higher Ed. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.