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New Challenges for Education in the Forthcoming Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

New Challenges for Education in the Forthcoming Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Michael Voskoglou
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781799848820|ISBN10: 1799848825|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799852766|EISBN13: 9781799848837
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4882-0.ch004
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Voskoglou, Michael. "New Challenges for Education in the Forthcoming Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution." Promoting Inclusive Growth in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, edited by Sheryl Beverley Buckley, IGI Global, 2020, pp. 98-117. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4882-0.ch004

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Voskoglou, M. (2020). New Challenges for Education in the Forthcoming Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In S. Buckley (Ed.), Promoting Inclusive Growth in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (pp. 98-117). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4882-0.ch004

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Voskoglou, Michael. "New Challenges for Education in the Forthcoming Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution." In Promoting Inclusive Growth in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, edited by Sheryl Beverley Buckley, 98-117. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4882-0.ch004

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Abstract

The rapid industrial and technological development of the last years has transformed the human society to its current form of knowledge and globalization. As a result, the formal education is nowadays faced with the big challenge of preparing students for a new way of life in the forthcoming fourth industrial revolution. This new revolution could be characterized as the era of the internet of things and energy and of the cyber-physical systems. The present chapter focuses on the role that computers and artificial intelligence could play in future education and the risks hiding behind this perspective. It is concluded that it is rather impossible that computers and the other “clever” machines of artificial intelligence will reach to the point of replacing teachers for educating students in future, because all these devices have been created and programmed by humans and therefore it is logical to accept that they will never succeed to reach the quality of human reasoning. However, it is certain that the role of the teacher will be dramatically changed in the future classrooms.

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