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I feel that the author needs to do a bit more research and appreciate different perspectives on this topic
some CTE career-cluster areas have average automation risks that are low: Education & Training, Health Sciences, Information Technology, and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
How can they state that science and technology fields have a lower risk of automation? I believe that there have already been advances, especially in the medical field, where surgery’s are being performed with a little help.
average automation risks decrease as education level goes up, largely because jobs requiring bachelor’s degrees involve a greater number of transferable skills that are less easy to automate.
I don’t agree with this one! There are those in our society that believe that a bachelor’s degree = a cushy desk job…
There’s also little accountability for academic integration baked into federal policy. Consequently, states, districts, schools, and teachers take different approaches to academic integration, and some approaches are more successful than others.
Should they not have started with one trade at a time…and taken more time. Maybe slowly integrating all the different approaches and observe the best outcome
The concern I have is that “academic integration” is mostly open to interpretation, and there’s not a lot of guidance for how to do it well across the16 different trades-based
Maybe polling those with experience in each specific trade could provide some guidance
Career and technical education courses and programs need to equip students with both
There is obviously a need to be equipped with the skills to work collectively with automation, but some of the skill set in these careers involves being able to deal with others. These would include other co workers or customers and clients
To begin, jobs requiring skills that are difficult to automate with available technologies are at lower risk of automation
Being in healthcare, I don’t think that there is any replacement for human interactions. Empathy, compassion and overall acknowledgement are not easily replicated
Today’s “career and technical education” is yesterday’s “vocational education,” though not really.
I feel that there is still a large portion of the the population that feels this way. I don’t know that many would feel threatened at the idea of AI taking over these skills.
It was humbling; I’ve spent years learning to write such code, to middling ability.
Should we not only be thinking about the future tech students, but what about those already in the trade that are going to possibly be at risk due to their lack of computer/techy knowledge?
In theory, students in these programs should be better prepared for automation
In theory? Does this mean that there is no definitive proof that AI Automation will make it’s way into the Tech world?