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Forty Percent of Elementary School Teachers’ Work Could Be Automated By 2030, McKinsey Global Institute Predicts – Digital Education – Education Week
The impact of automation will vary for male and female workers, with women likely being more susceptible to partial automation of their current occupations, according to new projections from the McKinsey Global Institute.
One big example: elementary school teachers, roughly 80 percent of whom are female. In the coming decade, McKinsey Global predicts, more than 40 percent of what these educators do during a current workday could be automated, resulting in the need to develop new skills and become more comfortable collaborating with algorithmic systems.
And teachers could be the lucky ones: Overall, as many as one-fourth of U.S. women in the workforce today could need to find new occupation categories by 2030, MGI concludes.
The group’s new report, titled ”The Future of Women at Work: Transitions in the Age of Automation,” offers a fresh perspective on the hotly debated future of work. As robots and artificial intelligence take over some of the routine tasks now done by humans, women will face particular challenges, the authors write, thanks in large measure to longstanding barriers such as unpaid work at home and fears of physical safety while in public.
This is of course very interesting. Both from the perspective of who is driving the change and to what extent its wanted, and also what happens to sectors that gain from this kind of development. Will the saved time be used to, in the case of teachers, improve teaching and learning or all it be used just to reduce cost.
What I think is most important is that this development is used to improve teaching and learning, to improve working conditions for teachers and n more general terms reduce the time spent on working for everybody.
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