Breakfast presentation to Wellington Educators, June 2017 - exploring the technology trends impacting education into the future,

1. Future Focused Education:
understanding the trends.
CORE Breakfast, 2017
derek.wenmoth@core-ed.org
@dwenmoth
http://www.wenmoth.net

2. Those trends
• Patterns…
• General direction…
• Regular change over
time…
• General course…
• Prevailing tendancy…
NOT predictions

3. • Diversity.
• Digital fluency.
• Digital citizenship .
• Identity and privacy
• Cyber bullying.
• Global connectedness
• De-privatised practice
The product of the beliefs,
perceptions, relationships,
attitudes, and written and
unwritten rules that shape
and influence behaviour.

4. • Equitable access.
• Identity and access
management.
• System integration
• Mobile and ‘touch’ technologies
• Big Data and analytics
• 3D printing
• Digital engagement
• Virtual and mixed reality
platforms
The pervasive nature of change
that occurs when a new
technology is introduced – it is
not additive, it is ecological.

5. • Change Leadership
• Design thinking
• Gamification
• Deep Learning
• Inclusive EducationSimply put, process may be
understood as ‘the way we
do things’

6. • Computational Thinking
• Future workforce
• Sustainability
• “Open-ness”
The way we generate wealth
and the skill sets required to
contribute to this are key
elements in any economy.

7. • Networked communities.
• Community focus.
• Charter schools.
• Private Public Partnerships.
• Alternative forms of
assessment.
• Learning record stores
Educational institutions are by
nature, very reliant on the
structures that give them their
identity and serve to support
what they do and the way
they do it.

9. Jeopardy?
“I felt obsolete, I felt like a Detroit
factory worker in the ‘80s seeing a
robot that could now do his job
on the assembly line. I felt like
‘Quiz Show Contestant’ was now
the first job that had become
obsolete under this new regime of
thinking computers.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/feb/17/ibm-computer-watson-wins-jeopardy

10. Financial advice
Robo-advisors have surged in popularity
as people seek low-cost, automated
investment opportunities. Within
minutes, robo-advisors allow you to set
up a customized, diverse portfolio and
can give you access to wealth
management services previously
reserved for the ultra-wealthy like tax-
loss harvesting and access to a certified
financial planner.
http://www.investopedia.com/tech/top-robo-advisors/

11. Call centres and AI
• AI is now helping to predict
customer behaviour on the
phone, to provide
recommendations to the
customer service reps on
how best to deal with the
issue.
http://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/How-AI-is-disrupting-the-role-of-call-centres-
and-call-centre-staff

12. Can you tell?
https://soundcloud.com/zekejmiller/new-recording-68

13. The dirty rusty wooden dresser drawer.
A couple million people wearing drawers,
Or looking through a lonely oven door,
Flowers covered under marble floors.
And lying sleeping on an open bed.
And I remember having started tripping,
Or any angel hanging overhead,
Without another cup of coffee dripping.
Surrounded by a pretty little sergeant,
Another morning at an early crawl.
And from the other side of my apartment,
An empty room behind the inner wall.
A thousand pictures on the kitchen floor,
Talked about a hundred years or more.
And what if from distress comes something
fine,
And following this dress-rehearsal pain
Gives way to Joy, mistress of ardor, art,
And love, who sure this mess would straighten
out?
For Joy has no illusions of a break;
She brooks many ill fusions of extremes,
And shares her light ‘till few suns could
compete;
Her binding love makes twos ones and keeps
peace.
So best not make a strumpet of this Joy,
Assert that she pays some debt with her smile,
Or name to her a numb set of stale sparks;
She never has succumbed yet, bless her heart.
Her love is full and indiscriminate
And even so you’ll find no sin in it.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/ai-poet/
Poem One Poem Two

14. AI and publishing…
The Associated Press uses Automated Insights’
Wordsmith platform to create more than 3,000
financial reports per quarter. It published a story
on Apple’s latest record-busting earnings within
minutes of their release. Forbes uses Narrative
Science’s Quill platform for similar efforts and
refers to the firm as a partner.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/opinion/sunday/if-an-algorithm-wrote-this-how-
would-you-even-know.html

15. https://www.washingtonpost.com/robot-vs-man----can-you-tell-the-
difference/466286e1-1910-40f9-8e0f-7a956d2c4226_quiz.html

16. So What?

17. • What guides our choices
– personally? As a
society?
• Our moral purpose

18. Ethical dilemmas…
• What happens after the end of jobs?
• How do we distribute the wealth created by machines?
• How do machines affect our behaviour and interaction?
• How can we guard against mistakes?
• How do we eliminate AI bias?
• How do we keep AI safe from adversaries?
• How do we protect against unintended consequences?
• How do we stay in control of a complex intelligent system?
• How do we define the humane treatment of AI?
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/10/top-10-ethical-issues-in-artificial-intelligence/

19. Questions…
• Where is the focus on
ethics in your
curriculum?
• Are ethics regularly
discussed in your PLGs?

20. • Fairness
• Impartiality
• Even or just
• Inclusive

21. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/10/who-are-the-1-the-answer-might-surprise-you/

22. http://www.australiaunwrapped.com/2017/01/22/global-inequality-poverty-and-economy-for-the-99/

23. http://www.geographypods.com/development1.html

24. If the world were 100 people?
https://www.good.is/infographics/if-the-world-were-100-people

25. Questions…
• Where are issues of
equity addressed in your
curriculum?
• How are issues of equity
addressed in the way
your school operates?

26. • Cyber safety and bullying
• Identity management
• Data security

27. Future Shock
“Our technological
powers increase, but the
side effects and potential
hazards also escalate.”
Alvin Toffler

28. Digital vs Human
• “It’s all progress… but progress
towards what?”
• “It’s true that technology is neutral –
but only if you take humans out of the
equation.”
• “We need a broader debate about
what is happening with technological
developments.”
https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Human-well-think-future-ebook/dp/B01D0IEO00

29. Questions…
• How is the issue of
‘amplification’
addressed in your
curriculum?
• How are concerns about
safety address in your
school policies?

30. • Honesty, compassion,
responsibility, and courage.
• Resect for and tolerance of fellow human
beings
• Custodial responsibility for the planet
• What makes us human

31. Questions…
• How are issues of
citizenship addressed in
your school’s graduate
profile?
• How does your
curriculum reflect this?

32. “The real problem of
humanity is the following:
we have paleolithic
emotions; medieval
institutions; and god-like
technology.”
Edward Wilson, US Biologist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson

33. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=937iCwJd3fI

34. Regional digital technology event series.
August 2017
Find out more: core-ed.org
In-depth 8-20 week programmes, facilitated online.
Annual educators’ conference.
11-13 October 2017, Hamilton.
By the way...

35. derek.wenmoth@core-ed.org
@dwenmoth
http://www.wenmoth.net