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Automation in Education: Streamlining Your Educational Processes

Rebecca Sealfon
Age of Awareness
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8 min readSep 29, 2021

Modern-day technologies are actively changing the way automation in education takes place. The artificial intelligence (AI) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) markets in the U.S. education sector are expected to reach nearly $85 million by 2022. Some of the biggest names in tech are constantly developing new solutions for education, according to recent market research.

Still, the actual role of automation in education and in students’ day-to-day lives leaves much to be desired. Surrounded by gadgets, students predominantly use them for communication and entertainment. At the same time, the educational system itself remains stubbornly resistant to transformation. For most schools, the approach to teaching is still one-size-fits-all. At the end of the day, it’s the same old classroom with a single teacher teaching a group of about 30 students.

This raises questions:

  • How will a generation of natively digital students react to the rise and spread of these technologies?
  • How can students use automation to optimize their time and focus on accomplishing their academic goals?

Automated education may provide a number of benefits, but also raises a number of concerns. In order to properly implement it, these benefits and trade-offs need to be…

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Rebecca Sealfon
Rebecca Sealfon

Written by Rebecca Sealfon

Former software engineer at Google, U.S. National Spelling Bee champion, and synesthete, based in New York, NY. Loves books, liberal Judaism, and nature.

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