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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. Fill out this five-minute survey , and you can enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card. in AI technology by the year 2030, so there is almost a Sputnik-like push for the tech going on right now in China. But should we? Listen to the EdSurge On Air podcast?

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The changing geography of work: a new report

Bryan Alexander

McKinsey just published a new report, “The future of work in America: People and places, today and tomorrow” ( summary ; longer document ), looking ahead to 2030 after new technologies have had some impact. Plus employers don’t want to pay more for older folks when they can pay less for younger ones and robots.

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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

The Hechinger Report

It’s economic development agencies such as the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, which is trying to get more students into STEM so they can fill jobs in fields such as semiconductor production and electric vehicle design , in which the state projects a need for up to 300,000 workers by 2030. Okay, now you’re talking math.”

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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 Nearly one-third of teenagers now say they would prefer their postsecondary education to last two years or less , a survey by the ECMC Group, a nonprofit education corporation, found. More than half are open to something other than a four-year degree.

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The changing geography of work: a new report

Bryan Alexander

McKinsey just published a new report, “The future of work in America: People and places, today and tomorrow” ( summary ; longer document ), looking ahead to 2030 after new technologies have had some impact. Plus employers don’t want to pay more for older folks when they can pay less for younger ones and robots.

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

Hack Education

” Gartner says, rather vaguely, that it relies on scenarios and surveys and pattern recognition to place technologies on the line. I don’t believe that robots will take, let alone need take, all our jobs. The markets, according to the press releases, are always growing.

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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. ” Survey finds more teachers are clicking on marketing emails. Edsurge also interviewed Goel this week.