The School of 2024

Can you belive it's only been five years since Alexa launched? Or that identifying birds in photos was considered a hard problem for machine learning? In this episode, Kelly and Sean discuss plausible trends in machine learning, artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, and data science that we may see in schools by 2024. We focus on 5 areas from microscale in the classroom to macro across the entire educational system.

1. Trends in the Computer Science classroom
2. Integration into other subjects
3. Reducing Teacher Workload
4. For Student Access to Tools
5. As a School-wide Initiative

It's amazing to think that many problems in Machine Learning were considered hard just 5 years ago. What will the next 5 years bring?

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