Adopt Fast, Adapt Quick: Adaptive Approaches in the South African Context

Xing, Bo; Marwala, Lufuno; Marwala, Tshilidzi

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-0194-0_8

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“…Human values must be respected in themselves, rather than weighted only in financial terms. According to Xing et al (2018) opined that low-skilled work will become scarce in the future as predictable tasks are replaced by machines. High or low skilled employees need education and retraining in order for technology to not totally replace man.…”

Section: The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4th Ir): Renewed Human Resmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking the roles and skills of information professionals in the 4th Industrial Revolution

Ayinde

Kirkwood

2020

Business Information Review

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With the development of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4th IR), its emerging technologies and skills; there is a mismatch between 4th IR, and the skills needed by information professionals to survive. This paper bridges the gap based on the skills needed to survive and provide possible solutions to challenges faced by information professionals, which will in turn help to reduce the number of unemployed, semi-employed, non-employed, and provide economic empowerment among information professionals in this new revolution. Information professionals should adopt the missing middle model/techniques in organization which asserts that robots, by and large, will not be taking our jobs; instead, human Machine collaboration will reconfigure some of our work, making and make human skills more unique and important than ever.

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Section: The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4th Ir): Renewed Human Resmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking the roles and skills of information professionals in the 4th Industrial Revolution

Ayinde

Kirkwood

2020

Business Information Review

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“…The third revolution started in about 1968, it was about digitization and internet connectivity of the production environment, the introduction of the first Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), usage of Information Technology (IT) systems, automation using computerized systems, and the use of electronic based systems which enabled more efficient production [20] [21]. The main flagship for the 3rd revolution is that machines are affordable, and digital manufacturing tools that are connected to the Internet and the energy sources are renewables [22].…”

Section: Fourth Industrial Revolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is to say the revolution based on cyber physical systems. This is a new phase where the fusion of several technologies is not only automating production, but also, knowledge [21]. Figure 1 below depicts the stages of industrial revolutions discussed above.…”

Section: Fourth Industrial Revolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development of Smart Rural Village Indicators in Line With Industry 4.0

2020

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In 1950, approximately 1.8 billion lived in rural areas and subsequently, rural population growth averaged 1.0 per cent per year, with the result that the rural population nearly doubled, reaching 3.4 billion in 2018 and is expected to peak in 2021 at just over 3.4 billion. Rural villages are lacking behind urban areas when it come to the stages of industrial revolutions and societal development with respect to technological advancement. Today, the world is faced with the new wave of advanced technological revolution called Industry 4.0. Despite the impressive work being implemented successfully to create smart cities and smart villages in various countries, there are still no developed standard indicators that can be used to define smart rural village concept. The objective of the study is to develop indicators for smart rural villages aligned with Industry 4.0 technologies using systematic literature review, the 2030 agenda for sustainable development, as well as the ISO 37122, smart cities indicator's standard. The translation method developed prioritized indicators according to sustainability, smartness and connectivity from the Information and Communication Technology. The main contribution is the method and indicators developed over 2-year period for smart rural villages. The resulting indicators makes it possible to answer what a smart rural village is: village that has access to affordable energy, adequate housing, safe drinking water, an inquisitive rural culture, early warning systems against adverse weather conditions, against drinking water pollution as well as the predictable schedule for local doctor, taxi/bus.

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“…What should PSE then look like nowadays? In light of Education 4 (discussed above) and as a background to the main discussion on a new proposed model for educating Theology (being discussed below), the ADAPTIVE proposal of Xing et al (2018) -with additions by the author of this article -is given:…”

Section: The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Teaching theology in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Shaikh

2020

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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Post-school education (PSE) in South Africa mostly takes place within an industrial-age factory environment as has been done for the past 50 years or longer. This is the case despite the fact that the world is on the brink of, or already part of, the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), called by some an ‘emerging new world order’. Educating students today like we did it half a century ago has now become education to a ‘quickly vanishing world’. Although one may argue that the content of Theology will not be much affected by the 4IR, it is proposed that the way in which that content is communicated and educated should change drastically. Doing this will prepare our students to become relevant preachers or theologians in the current (post-)postmodern society. The proposed model in this article is called an outside-in model – contrasted to the current inside-out model of education – in which our students should be taught to develop a sense of deep learning, to effectively learn and work in and with groups, to use their mobile devices (cell phones and tablets) and social media within the environment of education and to discuss new ways of gathering God’s people.The question that each educator should ask themselves nowadays is: Am I really preparing my students for the future that they are facing?Contribution: A new way of teaching Theology in the 4IR is imperative for our students. This article suggests how it could be done. Although this entails willpower and persuading the mostly ‘old’ lecturers in Theology to engage with real technology, it is all about the student, because many of these students will become the lecturers of tomorrow. Our faculties or departments of Theology are therefore urged to fit themselves into the new mould and to train our future theologians in a 4IR way.

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Adopt Fast, Adapt Quick: Adaptive Approaches in the South African Context

Cited by 30 publications

References 24 publications

Rethinking the roles and skills of information professionals in the 4th Industrial Revolution

Rethinking the roles and skills of information professionals in the 4th Industrial Revolution

Development of Smart Rural Village Indicators in Line With Industry 4.0

Teaching theology in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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