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By ROZ BROWN AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 For the almost one million Texans unemployed<\/a>, the post-coronavirus landscape is likely to look vastly different<\/a> for work and school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The pandemic has shown people who can work remotely are less likely to lose their jobs, and tend to have higher education levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jamie Merisotis, president and CEO of the Lumina Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on learning beyond high school, said one lesson from the pandemic is many areas of society will need to adapt to offer people more opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCOVID has revealed many weaknesses in the system, both weaknesses in the education system and weaknesses in the system of work,\u201d Merisotis contended. \u201cI don\u2019t think the \u2018old normal\u2019 is what we want to go back to. We want a \u2018new normal,\u2019 because what we know is that people need new skills.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Merisotis wrote a new book, \u201cHuman Work in the Age of Smart Machines<\/a>.\u201d He makes the case for rethinking higher education and job training to sustain the future U.S. workforce in an age of robotics and other technologies, and said schools and employers that adapt can profit from the changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The shift to remote learning this year has led some educators to champion more tools powered by artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Peter Stone, professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin<\/a> and co-author of the 2016 report, \u201cArtificial Intelligence and Life in 2030<\/a>,\u201d also anticipates post-pandemic changes for society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBecause of the demand right now, there\u2019s a lot of learning happening in the community about what are the best practices, what works better online, what works better in person,\u201d Stone explained. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be surprised if at the end of this, that we don\u2019t snap back to the way things were, but rather have a more hybrid approach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stone said there\u2019s already an increased focus on experiential learning, moving away from instructors delivering lectures to large audiences and instead, presenting opportunities to learn by trying and doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By ROZ BROWNTexas News Service AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 For the almost one million Texans unemployed, the post-coronavirus landscape is likely to look vastly different for work and school. The pandemic has shown people who can work remotely are less likely to lose their jobs, and tend to have higher education levels. Jamie Merisotis, president and CEO of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12351,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12350\/revisions\/12351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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