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Tech Professions Students Should Consider

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Machine learning is a branch of AI that uses big data to create algorithms. Their courses are difficult, and it can be hard to find the time to attend class, study for exams and write research papers. Data Scientist Businesses collect data every day. They need data scientists to compile, process and analyze it.

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KinderLab Robotics Donates Robot Kits to Connect Schools in Pennsylvania and Guatemala

eSchool News

Waltham, MA — KinderLab Robotics today announced that it has donated four KIBO robot kits to La Puerta Abierta , a school in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala. Because Guatemala has sporadic wireless access, Sewickley Academy chose the screen-free KIBO as the hands-on coding robot to share with La Puerta Abierta’s young students.

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Roybi Raises $4.2 Million Seed Round to Produce Educational Robots

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The two-legged, pill-shaped robot—upper half green, lower half white and small enough to stand on one’s palm—starts its lesson with a greeting. Designed for children ages 3 to 7, the robot, Roybi, aims to teach kids at home a range of early-childhood developmental skills. The app also provides progress data on children’s learning.

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PROOF POINTS: Rural American students shift away from math and science during high school, study finds

The Hechinger Report

students, but they are less likely to study science and math in college. There’s a pressing need to attract young students from all backgrounds to study these fields in college. Urban students also trail suburban students when it comes to studying science, but only by a little, according to the federal data.

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3 Fields of Study With Great Post-Graduate Prospects

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The best way to protect your future is to get into an industry where computers and robots won’t come to fruition. The bottom-line task in this field is to protect data from being compromised. This private data and information has been accessed from the outside, and sold to those who want to do something with your personal data.

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How colleges can help their students out-compete robots 

The Hechinger Report

There’s a lot of anxiety out there about robots gobbling up our jobs. One oft-cited Oxford University study predicts that up to 47 percent of U.S. It’s called “ Robot Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.”. All students working toward degrees will need to understand technology and data, he says.

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Ten jobs that are safe from robots

The Hechinger Report

Yes, the robots are definitely coming for the jobs of America’s 3.5 Robots may also be coming for radiologists, whose expertise diagnosing diseases through X-rays and MRIs is facing stiff competition from artificial intelligence. That’s according to researchers who study the impact of automation on jobs. million cashiers.

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