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Hi everyone,
NCL's in-person member meeting will be held Tuesday, September 17th, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. in Washington, D.C. at American Library Association's office.
Details and an agenda will be coming soon.
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Hello NCL Colleagues,
I want to call your attention to this morning's post (below). The preliminary findings of this MIT study could have some important public policy impact on our field. Please read my post below, take a look at the short WBUR Today article, and possibly read the findings if you have time. I also hope you will log in and post your comments on these findings in the LINCS discussion taking place in the Integrating technology, Career Pathways and Program management LINCS Community groups.
All the best,
David
David J. Rosen
djrosen123@gmail.com
.
From: "LINCS Community" <communitysupport@lincs.ed.gov mailto:communitysupport@lincs.ed.gov>
Subject: Career Pathways: New Discussion: The robots are coming, but not necessarily for your job posted by David J. Rosen
Date: September 11, 2019 at 8:40:18 AM EDT
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Career Pathways: New Discussion: The robots are coming, but not necessarily for your job posted by David J. Rosen
Hello David J. Rosen,
David J. Rosen added the following Discussion in group Career Pathways:
Hello colleagues,
Preliminary findings have been released from an M.I.T. "Work of the Future" Task Force. The meta-analysis findings and recommendations from the research of twenty Boston University researchers may be of interest. Here are a few tantalizing bits from an online article https://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2019/09/10/mit-future-of-work-report?utm_source=WBUR+Editorial+Newsletters&utm_campaign=02b0be10fa-WBURTODAY_2019_09_11_&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d0781a0a0c-02b0be10fa-134664649 today from radio station WBUR in Boston (bolding is mine):
"...the likelihood that robots, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) will completely wipe out large swaths of the workforce is exaggerated"
"There's no doubt technology will impact jobs, but researchers say there is a larger concern when it comes to the future of work https://www.wbur.org/future-of-work: Increasing inequality. And the impact of that inequality has given workers legitimate concerns about the role of technology in the future."
"From 1973 to 2016, labor productivity rose by 75%, but workers' compensation only rose by 12%, the report found. And the stagnant earnings hit people of color particularly hard."
"Technology has contributed to "employment polarization" by making highly educated workers more productive and less educated workers easier to replace"
"---technology isn't the only factor in this polarization. Trade, tax policies and the weakening of collective bargaining have also contributed to inequality"
"...a critical challenge for the future is not necessarily a lack of jobs, but the low quality of jobs. For example, according to the report, 92% of Americans born in 1940 earned more money than their parents, but only about half of people born in 1980 can say the same when adjusted for inflation."
One of the preliminary report's major recommendations: "To that end, the report recommends more skills training https://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2017/11/02/skills-gap-future-of-work, particularly for workers without college degrees. The report points to community colleges, apprenticeship programs and online education as important focus areas for such training investments."
"The U.S. should also focus on becoming leaders in technology by investing heavily in AI, machine learning and robotics, the report said. This is an area where China https://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2017/11/20/china-automation has already made great strides."
Your reactions here to this preliminary report, of course, are welcome. You may wonder why part of the last bullet is in bold. Upcoming in the Integrating Technology and Program Management groups sometime in the next couple of months is a week-long expert panel discussion on Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality and their possible roles in adult basic skills education. Stay tuned for more.
David J. Rosen, Moderator
LINCS CoP Integrating Technology and Program Management grous
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Thanks David. Those interested in this topic may find the following article of interest:
https://logicmag.io/failure/the-automation-charade/
Excerpt:
"Though automation is presented as a neutral process, the straightforward consequence of technological progress, one needn’t look that closely to see that this is hardly the case. Automation is both a reality and an ideology, and thus also a weapon wielded against poor and working people who have the audacity to demand better treatment, or just the right to subsist.
But if you look even closer, things get stranger still. Automated processes are often far less impressive than the puffery and propaganda surrounding them imply—and sometimes they are nowhere to be seen. Jobs may be eliminated and salaries slashed but people are often still laboring alongside or behind the machines, even if the work they perform has been deskilled or goes unpaid.
Remarkable technological changes are indeed afoot, but that doesn’t mean the evolution of employment, and the social world at large, has been preordained. We shouldn’t simply sit back, awestruck, awaiting the arrival of an artificially intelligent workforce. We must also reckon with the ideology of automation, and its attendant myth of human obsolescence."
Jeff
Jeff Carter
Cell: (202) 374-4387 | @jeffcrtr
Senior Policy Advisor
National Coalition for Literacy
www.national-coalition-literacy.org http://www.national-coalition-literacy.org/
jcarter@literacypolicy.org mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org
President, Committee for Education Funding
Executive Director
Physicians for Social Responsibility
1111 14th St, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005
www.psr.org http://www.psr.org/ | jcarter@psr.org mailto:jcarter@psr.org
On Sep 11, 2019, at 10:15 AM, David Rosen djrosen123@gmail.com wrote:
Hello NCL Colleagues,
I want to call your attention to this morning's post (below). The preliminary findings of this MIT study could have some important public policy impact on our field. Please read my post below, take a look at the short WBUR Today article, and possibly read the findings if you have time. I also hope you will log in and post your comments on these findings in the LINCS discussion taking place in the Integrating technology, Career Pathways and Program management LINCS Community groups.
All the best,
David
David J. Rosen
djrosen123@gmail.com
.
From: "LINCS Community" communitysupport@lincs.ed.gov
Subject: Career Pathways: New Discussion: The robots are coming, but not necessarily for your job posted by David J. Rosen
Date: September 11, 2019 at 8:40:18 AM EDT
To: djrosen123@gmail.com
Group: Career Pathways
Career Pathways: New Discussion: The robots are coming, but not necessarily for your job posted by David J. Rosen
Hello David J. Rosen,
David J. Rosen added the following Discussion in group Career Pathways:
Hello colleagues,
Preliminary findings have been released from an M.I.T. "Work of the Future" Task Force. The meta-analysis findings and recommendations from the research of twenty Boston University researchers may be of interest. Here are a few tantalizing bits from an online article today from radio station WBUR in Boston (bolding is mine):
• "...the likelihood that robots, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) will completely wipe out large swaths of the workforce is exaggerated"
• "There's no doubt technology will impact jobs, but researchers say there is a larger concern when it comes to the future of work: Increasing inequality. And the impact of that inequality has given workers legitimate concerns about the role of technology in the future."
• "From 1973 to 2016, labor productivity rose by 75%, but workers' compensation only rose by 12%, the report found. And the stagnant earnings hit people of color particularly hard."
• "Technology has contributed to "employment polarization" by making highly educated workers more productive and less educated workers easier to replace"
• "---technology isn't the only factor in this polarization. Trade, tax policies and the weakening of collective bargaining have also contributed to inequality"
• "...a critical challenge for the future is not necessarily a lack of jobs, but the low quality of jobs. For example, according to the report, 92% of Americans born in 1940 earned more money than their parents, but only about half of people born in 1980 can say the same when adjusted for inflation."
• One of the preliminary report's major recommendations: "To that end, the report recommends more skills training, particularly for workers without college degrees. The report points to community colleges, apprenticeship programs and online education as important focus areas for such training investments."
• "The U.S. should also focus on becoming leaders in technology by investing heavily in AI, machine learning and robotics, the report said. This is an area where China has already made great strides."
Your reactions here to this preliminary report, of course, are welcome. You may wonder why part of the last bullet is in bold. Upcoming in the Integrating Technology and Program Management groups sometime in the next couple of months is a week-long expert panel discussion on Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality and their possible roles in adult basic skills education. Stay tuned for more.
David J. Rosen, Moderator
LINCS CoP Integrating Technology and Program Management grous
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For those interested in the history (and dark side) of automation, there is the famous case of the tomato harvester (developed at UC-Davis, a land-grant university). It caused about 32,000 farmworkers to lose their jobs. This prompted a lawsuit and helped birth the food movement. https://news.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/2015/07/24/how-the-mechanical-tomato-harvester-prompted-the-food-movement/
Best,
Esther
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Subject: Re: [NCL Members] "The robots are coming, but not necessarily for your job"
Thanks David. Those interested in this topic may find the following article of interest:
https://logicmag.io/failure/the-automation-charade/https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flogicmag.io%2Ffailure%2Fthe-automation-charade%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cesp150%40psu.edu%7C903b5f636c0849f8900408d737fe4b03%7C7cf48d453ddb4389a9c1c115526eb52e%7C0%7C0%7C637039437635375569&sdata=KJWad4X1GH0o3pLRgYaVKYNjlfxIxk4EKT6iOswBIFs%3D&reserved=0
Excerpt:
"Though automation is presented as a neutral process, the straightforward consequence of technological progress, one needn’t look that closely to see that this is hardly the case. Automation is both a reality and an ideology, and thus also a weapon wielded against poor and working people who have the audacity to demand better treatment, or just the right to subsist.
But if you look even closer, things get stranger still. Automated processes are often far less impressive than the puffery and propaganda surrounding them imply—and sometimes they are nowhere to be seen. Jobs may be eliminated and salaries slashed but people are often still laboring alongside or behind the machines, even if the work they perform has been deskilled or goes unpaid.
Remarkable technological changes are indeed afoot, but that doesn’t mean the evolution of employment, and the social world at large, has been preordained. We shouldn’t simply sit back, awestruck, awaiting the arrival of an artificially intelligent workforce. We must also reckon with the ideology of automation, and its attendant myth of human obsolescence."
Jeff
Jeff Carter
Cell: (202) 374-4387 | @jeffcrtr
Senior Policy Advisor
National Coalition for Literacy
www.national-coalition-literacy.orghttps://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.national-coalition-literacy.org%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cesp150%40psu.edu%7C903b5f636c0849f8900408d737fe4b03%7C7cf48d453ddb4389a9c1c115526eb52e%7C0%7C0%7C637039437635385561&sdata=r5VsY1KYWqma3Q8KLXJHtw7V21yVDs9YdDdzvZEgYFU%3D&reserved=0
jcarter@literacypolicy.orgmailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org
President, Committee for Education Funding
Executive Director
Physicians for Social Responsibility
1111 14th St, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005
www.psr.orghttps://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.psr.org%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cesp150%40psu.edu%7C903b5f636c0849f8900408d737fe4b03%7C7cf48d453ddb4389a9c1c115526eb52e%7C0%7C0%7C637039437635385561&sdata=loi%2B8YLHr2JzoAqBU%2FELD9E3wxfkZUd7atyaKI643Hw%3D&reserved=0 | jcarter@psr.orgmailto:jcarter@psr.org
On Sep 11, 2019, at 10:15 AM, David Rosen <djrosen123@gmail.commailto:djrosen123@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello NCL Colleagues,
I want to call your attention to this morning's post (below). The preliminary findings of this MIT study could have some important public policy impact on our field. Please read my post below, take a look at the short WBUR Today article, and possibly read the findings if you have time. I also hope you will log in and post your comments on these findings in the LINCS discussion taking place in the Integrating technology, Career Pathways and Program management LINCS Community groups.
All the best,
David
David J. Rosen
djrosen123@gmail.commailto:djrosen123@gmail.com
.
From: "LINCS Community" <communitysupport@lincs.ed.govmailto:communitysupport@lincs.ed.gov>
Subject: Career Pathways: New Discussion: The robots are coming, but not necessarily for your job posted by David J. Rosen
Date: September 11, 2019 at 8:40:18 AM EDT
To: djrosen123@gmail.commailto:djrosen123@gmail.com
Group: Career Pathways
Career Pathways: New Discussion: The robots are coming, but not necessarily for your job posted by David J. Rosen
Hello David J. Rosen,
David J. Rosen added the following Discussion in group Career Pathways:
Hello colleagues,
Preliminary findings have been released from an M.I.T. "Work of the Future" Task Force. The meta-analysis findings and recommendations from the research of twenty Boston University researchers may be of interest. Here are a few tantalizing bits from an online article today from radio station WBUR in Boston (bolding is mine):
• "...the likelihood that robots, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) will completely wipe out large swaths of the workforce is exaggerated"
• "There's no doubt technology will impact jobs, but researchers say there is a larger concern when it comes to the future of work: Increasing inequality. And the impact of that inequality has given workers legitimate concerns about the role of technology in the future."
• "From 1973 to 2016, labor productivity rose by 75%, but workers' compensation only rose by 12%, the report found. And the stagnant earnings hit people of color particularly hard."
• "Technology has contributed to "employment polarization" by making highly educated workers more productive and less educated workers easier to replace"
• "---technology isn't the only factor in this polarization. Trade, tax policies and the weakening of collective bargaining have also contributed to inequality"
• "...a critical challenge for the future is not necessarily a lack of jobs, but the low quality of jobs. For example, according to the report, 92% of Americans born in 1940 earned more money than their parents, but only about half of people born in 1980 can say the same when adjusted for inflation."
• One of the preliminary report's major recommendations: "To that end, the report recommends more skills training, particularly for workers without college degrees. The report points to community colleges, apprenticeship programs and online education as important focus areas for such training investments."
• "The U.S. should also focus on becoming leaders in technology by investing heavily in AI, machine learning and robotics, the report said. This is an area where China has already made great strides."
Your reactions here to this preliminary report, of course, are welcome. You may wonder why part of the last bullet is in bold. Upcoming in the Integrating Technology and Program Management groups sometime in the next couple of months is a week-long expert panel discussion on Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality and their possible roles in adult basic skills education. Stay tuned for more.
David J. Rosen, Moderator
LINCS CoP Integrating Technology and Program Management grous
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