Automation
School & District Management
If the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Work is Unclear, What Can Schools Do?
Experts are bad at predicting which jobs will be lost to automation, but policymakers still need to understand the dynamics of technological disruption, a new RAND report concludes.
Education
Opinion
12 New Rules: Accelerated Learning for an Exponential World
How can leaders respond to the rise of the automation economy? Here's 12 new rules about accelerated learning and how state and local education policymakers can help.
Curriculum
Schools and the Future of Work: 10 Research Reports You Need to See
Education Week curated 10 key studies to help K-12 educators and policymakers make sense of the debate over how technology will reshape the future of work.
Reading & Literacy
Are Our Jobs Making Us Dumber?
Some experts blame rising automation for a decline in adult literacy skills—all the more reason to make learning a lifetime endeavor.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
How Do I Prepare My Students for Jobs That May Soon Disappear?
The rise of automation endangers future job prospects—and makes the work of educators that much harder, writes one teacher.
Future of Work
Opinion
Proposal For An Innovation Diploma
What if we created a new competency-based high school diploma framework focused on innovation that represented preparedness for the automation economy? Here's a proposal of what that could look like.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
Staying Ahead of the Robots: What Grads Should Know and Be Able To Do
The automation economy is changing the employment landscape, making it a good time to reconsider the purpose and goals of public education. How do we prepare students for success in the future?
College & Workforce Readiness
Are You Helping Prepare Students for Jobs That Will Be Lost to Automation?
Which jobs are at risk of being lost to automation, and how can students prepare for those labor-market shifts? A new interactive tool, based on jobs data, offers insight that can help educators guide students in career planning.
College & Workforce Readiness
What Skills Are You Teaching Students to Prepare Them for Jobs of the Future?
Education Week wants to hear from educators: In an age of automation and artificial intelligence, what skills do students need to learn in school to prepare for the workforce?
School & District Management
Can K-12 Education Prepare Students For 'Jobs of the Future?'
Education and training systems will struggle to equip students for a rapidly changing workforce, according to a survey of 1,408 education and technology experts.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Education Alone Won't Solve Poverty, Social Isolation, and Resentment
Education is not a silver bullet solution to addressing the consequences of globalization and automation, writes Marc Tucker.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
Stop Scapegoating, Start Educating
The root of the U.S. job crisis is automation, and teaching technology is part of the solution, write Julie Flapan and Jane Margolis.
School & District Management
Opinion
#AskAboutAI: Learning to See and Speak
Our new blog series #AskAboutAI will encourage parents, teachers, mentors and advisors to engage young people in a dialog about the emerging automation economy and the ethical and economic implications of artificial intelligence (AI).
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
Batch of One: How AI & Robots Will Bring Manufacturing Home to the U.S.
The age of smart local manufacturing is just around the corner, and today's students will need to be prepared. Here are next steps for educators to provide manufacturing and coding pathways.