The Coming Of The Robot Analysis

How to Protect Your Education 102: The Coming of the Robots
How important is your future education to you? How important is the future of the education system to you? For centuries, since the beginning of time, humans have been trying to further education; it started with something like discovery of fire and and continued centuries later with the invention of the wheel, and after that there was inventions like the light bulb and the first computer. If we look back on history, it would seem that humankind’s progress with education and innovation has only gotten better; every time there is a new invention or discovery, there is always something bigger and and more useful to be invented or discovered. After the invention of computers, what do
Vishal Sikka, author of Life-long learning will be crucial in the AI era, states, “I believe humans will not do well if they merely endure...disruptions [such as AI].” In other words, Sikka is basically saying that we won’t be able to “endure” the impact on society that AI will have. This makes the future look bleak. Luckly for us, Sikka offers a solution the problem she addresses. Later in her article, Sikka declares, “The time has come to rethink education and to recast it as a lifelong process….we need to move away from rewarding memorisation and instead prize curiosity and experimentation.” In other words, Sikka is making it clear that we need to “rethink” our education system; instead of memorizing things to be applied, we need to learn how to adapt to and experiment with the situations that we find ourselves in. It appears that we’ve got our work cut out for us; now instead of just going to class and learning to memorize knowledge, we need to learn how to continue learning and adapting throughout the course of our
In her article, Why Online Education May Drive Down the Cost of Your Degree, Devon Haynie elaborates, “The University of the People, an accredited, online-only school, is now offering degrees with no tuition. And massive open online courses, or MOOCs, have been hailed as free educational resources that people could eventually use to complete a degree.” According to Haynie, the education system is already headed towards being less expensive on its own. There are already degrees offered with no tuition attached and there are MOOC’s available to the public. So, what the problem with this? It seems like every problem we’ve talked about is solving itself the way we want it, right? Well, maybe not. If we continue reading Haynie’s article, we will find this statement, “Another way online programs can save on costs and therefore lower tuition is by admitting more students – sometimes hundreds more – to class while keeping the number of instructors to a minimum or outsourcing grading to computers.” What Haynie is saying sounds innocent enough; online classes will save cost and lower tuition for students. They will also make it so there doesn’t need to be as many teacher or grading