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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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Look Here: Predicting 2020 Requires 20/20 Vision

EdNews Daily

If trends continue unabated, by 2030 we may be looking at nearly 50 percent of school-aged children walking away from traditional public education in this country. This is a cultural trend and it’s increasingly being talked about. This year, 27 percent of school-aged children have opted out. One out of every two children.

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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 State and federal agencies are joining the trend. 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. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report.

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

Hack Education

As I have done for the past six years, I will spend the rest of November and December publishing my review of what I deem the “Top Ed-Tech Trends” of the year. I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. (Of How do you do that? You gather experts.

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How Do You Prepare Students for Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet? Karen Cator Has Some Ideas.

Edsurge

There is a lot of talk these days about robots replacing humans in the workforce, but those conversations remain largely abstract. Of all the issues and trends in edtech these days, she says automation is one of the most pressing—and one that all educators should be thinking about. How can they train for jobs that don’t even exist yet?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” (“Reinventing the transcript” seems to be one of the things folks are hoping to make “ trend ” this year.). Economy by 2030.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Has Been Working to Reinvent the Transcript. And That Has Given It Some Eye-opening Data.” ” Imperil!!

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The looming decline of the public research university

The Hechinger Report

Among other things, they say, their work could lead to the kind of robotic exoskeletons imagined in the movie Aliens. These universities have served as bulwarks against a decades-long trend of economic activity fleeing smaller cities and the center of the country for the coasts. China could catch up by 2030 based on current trends.