Bryan Alexander

JULY 18, 2019

One study looking at labor market recovery after recessions found that displaced workers ages 55 to 64 were 16 percentage points less likely to be re-employed at the time of follow-up surveys than workers ages 35 to 44.16 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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Bryan Alexander

JULY 18, 2019

One study looking at labor market recovery after recessions found that displaced workers ages 55 to 64 were 16 percentage points less likely to be re-employed at the time of follow-up surveys than workers ages 35 to 44.16 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 Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Greeley offers a lens into how wide the digital divide in the US has become, how much it is contributing to a two-tiered society, and, perhaps most important, whether it can be bridged – something that will be crucial to keeping the country competitive in the global economy of tomorrow. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. for Robotics Contest.” Via The New York Times : “To Close Digital Divide, Microsoft to Harness Unused Television Channels.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” The survey was from Project Tomorrow. Contests and Awards.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 7, 2018

” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Edsurge : “In a New Survey, Teachers Say There’s a Disconnect in Computer Science Education.” ” Via The New York Times : “ Digital Divide Is Wider Than We Think, Study Says.” Research, “Research,” and Reports.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Via WaPo : “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “In an age of robots , schools are teaching our children to be redundant,” says George Monbiot. ” That’s Gail Heriot. . Forget Design Thinking.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones. Um, they do.)

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