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Key points:
We are in a new era–the Era of Smart Technology. Artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of ChatGPT-4 is very smart and ChatGPT-5, -6, and -7, etc. will be even smarter. Smart technology will change the “game of work” and it will change how we educate people.
We will live in the most disruptive job time since the Great Depression. Technology is and will continue to automate many blue- and white-collar jobs. Oxford University predicts that 25-47 percent of U.S. jobs will be automated by 2030. Scientists have predicted that the average person will have 5 completely different jobs in the next 20 years. No one will be exempt.
The new workplace will be very different than today’s workplace. As AI continues to advance, workers will be needed to do the tasks that technology won’t be able to do well. As of today, those tasks are:
The goal of education will be to teach every student how to become a highly adaptive Learner who can learn, unlearn, and relearn at the speed of technological change. That will require every student to learn how to take ownership of their own selves so they can bring their best self to the world every day.
Taking ownership will require every student to learn how to take ownership of managing their ego, their body, their mind, their emotions, their listening, their thinking, and how they emotionally relate to other people.
The goal is to help every student develop the foundational soft skills, learning skills, and technical skills required to do the type of work that humans will be needed to do. That is how people will have good jobs. That is how people will stay relevant workwise. That is how people will have a meaningful and happy life in the Age of Smart Technology.
For many people, the future of work will depend upon how fast our government (federal, state, and local) and public schools adapt. Public schools will have to adapt at the speed of technological change. That will require educational leaders and teachers to be adaptive–to embrace continuous learning, to change how they lead, how they teach, and what they teach; and it will require communities and governments to increase the funding of public education so that millions of students will not be left behind as smart technology continues to advance.
Educators at all levels will have to transform themselves to model the behaviors and this new way of learning that will be needed by their students.
Education in the United States is not an equal opportunity game. Wealthy families can buy the best education starting from kindergarten through graduate school. Most American families can’t do that. What is at stake now in this new era of smart technology is the American Dream for those individuals and families who are not wealthy. Our public education system is hindered significantly by achievement gaps that underserve the students who will likely be at the highest risk of automation, growing the digital divide.
To go right to the source, below are Chat GPT-4’s answers to my question: “What will be the impact on our society if public schools do not embrace fast enough the need to train students to do the types of work that smart technology cannot do well?”
If public schools do not embrace the need to train students for work that smart technology cannot do well, there could be several potential impacts on society:
It is essential that our federal, state, and local governments fund a Public Schools Transformation Program that will ensure students are equipped with the necessary skills and competencies for the Smart Machine Age.
Technology will not wait on education. The transformation of our public school system is an imperative.
Related:
Edtech leaders offer guidance on safe AI classroom integration
Is AI the future of education?

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Edward D. Hess is Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Batten Executive-in-Residence and Batten Fellow in Emeritus in the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. He is the author of OWN YOUR WORK JOURNEY!: The Path to Meaningful Work and Happiness in the Age of Smart Technology and Radical Change ( 2023).
La Tricia Clark, Ph.D., is the CEO of EduVation in West Bloomfield, Michigan

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Key points:
We are in a new era–the Era of Smart Technology. Artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of ChatGPT-4 is very smart and ChatGPT-5, -6, and -7, etc. will be even smarter. Smart technology will change the “game of work” and it will change how we educate people.
We will live in the most disruptive job time since the Great Depression. Technology is and will continue to automate many blue- and white-collar jobs. Oxford University predicts that 25-47 percent of U.S. jobs will be automated by 2030. Scientists have predicted that the average person will have 5 completely different jobs in the next 20 years. No one will be exempt.
The new workplace will be very different than today’s workplace. As AI continues to advance, workers will be needed to do the tasks that technology won’t be able to do well. As of today, those tasks are:
The goal of education will be to teach every student how to become a highly adaptive Learner who can learn, unlearn, and relearn at the speed of technological change. That will require every student to learn how to take ownership of their own selves so they can bring their best self to the world every day.
Taking ownership will require every student to learn how to take ownership of managing their ego, their body, their mind, their emotions, their listening, their thinking, and how they emotionally relate to other people.
The goal is to help every student develop the foundational soft skills, learning skills, and technical skills required to do the type of work that humans will be needed to do. That is how people will have good jobs. That is how people will stay relevant workwise. That is how people will have a meaningful and happy life in the Age of Smart Technology.
For many people, the future of work will depend upon how fast our government (federal, state, and local) and public schools adapt. Public schools will have to adapt at the speed of technological change. That will require educational leaders and teachers to be adaptive–to embrace continuous learning, to change how they lead, how they teach, and what they teach; and it will require communities and governments to increase the funding of public education so that millions of students will not be left behind as smart technology continues to advance.
Educators at all levels will have to transform themselves to model the behaviors and this new way of learning that will be needed by their students.
Education in the United States is not an equal opportunity game. Wealthy families can buy the best education starting from kindergarten through graduate school. Most American families can’t do that. What is at stake now in this new era of smart technology is the American Dream for those individuals and families who are not wealthy. Our public education system is hindered significantly by achievement gaps that underserve the students who will likely be at the highest risk of automation, growing the digital divide.
To go right to the source, below are Chat GPT-4’s answers to my question: “What will be the impact on our society if public schools do not embrace fast enough the need to train students to do the types of work that smart technology cannot do well?”
If public schools do not embrace the need to train students for work that smart technology cannot do well, there could be several potential impacts on society:
It is essential that our federal, state, and local governments fund a Public Schools Transformation Program that will ensure students are equipped with the necessary skills and competencies for the Smart Machine Age.
Technology will not wait on education. The transformation of our public school system is an imperative.
Related:
Edtech leaders offer guidance on safe AI classroom integration
Is AI the future of education?

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