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Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

The Hechinger Report

Many of his friends took the same shortcut to good jobs at companies including Sony and Lockheed Martin. They also practice skills in the hot fields of 3D printing and robotics. “We State and federal agencies are joining the trend.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Techcrunch : “ Sony wants to digitize education records using the blockchain.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The New York Times : “A Few Telling Freshman Trends.” Larry Cuban on personalized learning : part 1 and part 2. Tech Researcher Costumed as Car Seat.”

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

But this year, I’m reorganizing my analysis of these “trends,” partly because I think they can all be subsumed under the larger theme of “the new economy.” ” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots.