Wednesday 27 September 2017

The Future of Work is uncertain, Schools should worry now!

Read this article published on the 26 September 2017 in Education Week and written by Benjamin Herold.



—Taylor Callery for Education Week

Automation and artificial intelligence are disrupting the labor market. What do K-12 educators and policymakers need to know?



Special Report: Schools and the Future of Work

Technological change, globalization, and climate instability are happening at an accelerating pace all across the world.

Artificial intelligence and automation are the engines driving much of the transformation in the workplace. Some experts even predict that 47 percent of today’s jobs could be done by machines within a couple of decades.

So what skills do students need to succeed in the uncertain, intensely competitive workplace of the future? Education Week begins answering that question in this special report, “Schools and the Future of Work.”

http://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/schools-and-future-of-work/index.html