20/12/2018
How Classrooms are Changing for the Next Generation of Students
The BBC recently conducted some research exploring ‘Grand Challenges’ facing humanity. It explored the growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the use of robots. A series of questions were posed including, will they steal our jobs? Who’s at risk, and what could your workplace actually look like in five years? Who did they decide was most at risk?
The research noted the vital role of education in helping to prepare for the future:
“The concern is that we are not updating our education, training and political institutions to keep up,” warns Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Initiative on the Digital Economy. “We could end up leaving a lot of people behind.”