Giving Compass' Take:

• Brookings explores how artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies will affect the future of work, and how education institutions can best prepare students for these changes.

• Advanced technology can also be leverage to scale resources for schools and job trainers to keep pace with the evolving landscape. But how will privacy concerns be addressed?

• Here are ways that artificial intelligence could help teachers.

While changes in artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies (ET) create challenges, these technological advancements also provide opportunities. First, innovations in AI can provide teachers with valuable resources. Blended learning, defined as “the strategic integration of in-person learning with technology to enable real-time data use, personalized instruction, and mastery-based progression,” uses emerging technology to help teachers personalize education for individual students. This approach is generally known as personalized learning. Studies have found that personalized learning is a promising approach, although implementation challenges remain ...

Second, AI and other emerging technologies can be used to create scalable resources that support large numbers of students and others as they navigate education, training, and career pathways. Promising innovations include a conversational AI system that uses personalized text message outreach to help incoming college students complete required pre-matriculation tasks. The University of Virginia, through its “nudge4” center, is working on innovations that leverage technologies to support students and others, such as a current project that seeks to use machine learning to provide personalized transfer guidance to community college students.

Interactive online resources, such as the Skillful Initiative, provide resources for job seekers, employers, and career coaches. These innovations and others like them suggest that even as the workforce evolves due to changes in technology, policymakers and educators can simultaneously leverage technological advancements to support students on their higher education pathways and to connect adults with education and career opportunities.

Read the full article about the role of AI in education and the workforce by Elizabeth Mann Levesque at Brookings.