Presentation to the Teacher Only Day for the Cromwell Cluster to start their 2018 school year and to introduce the concept of deep learning.

1. Designing a Future Focused
Approach
Thursday 25 January, 2018
Wifi:

2. Our focus for the day
1. Explore what’s changing in our world and how we need to be working with learners to
ensure they are best prepared to meet the considerable challenges and opportunities
they will face.
2. Collaboratively explore our beliefs about learning and vision for education into the future.
3. Develop a shared understanding of the NPDL programme, its ambition, frameworks,
tools and ways of working.
4. Identify priorities for your school into 2018, and plan for how the NPDL frameworks and
tools can be used to enable and/or support this.

3. FUTURE FOCUSED
• Exploring the drivers of change in
our world and how our teaching
and learning needs to “go deeper”
in order to prepare our learners to
thrive in this change

4. Our changing world
● Our world is changing and changing rapidly.
● What must we do to prepare students for living and working in the 21st
century?
● How must our schools and teachers change to meet these opportunities
and challenges?
The
Future?

5. Year Million
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xn6IDytVGw
How does that
make you feel?

6. Future Shock
“Future shock is the shattering
stress and disorientation that
we induce in individuals by
subjecting them to too much
change in too short a time.”
Alvin Toffler

8. “The artificial intelligence
revolution and its impact on the US
workforce is not even on our radar
screen…
…technology is still 50 to 100
years from displacing human jobs.”
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=11825496

9. BUT WAIT...
What if it
really
IS TRUE?

10. http://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/How-AI-is-disrupting-the-role-of-call-
centres-and-call-centre-staff
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.

11. https://soundcloud.com/zekejmiller/new-recording-68

12. 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
Number one was written by a human named Ivy
Schweitzer. The second sonnet, however, was
written by an algorithm that was programmed by
Marjan Ghazvininejad, Xing Shi, Yejin Choi, and
Kevin Knight from the University of Southern
California Information Sciences Institute.

13. An AI may write your next novel
https://youtu.be/XgTFYwolcsA

14. https://www.narrativescience.com/#home

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

16. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/opinion/sunday/if-an-algorithm-wrote-this-how-
would-you-even-know.html
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.

17. http://www.bbc.com/news/education-39272841

18. “Economists may be
underestimating how fast the
robots are coming.
Robots and intelligent machines
threaten to replace workers in
industries from finance to retail to
haulage, with more than 15 million
British jobs and 80 million in the
U.S. lost to automation.”
BOE Chief Economist Andrew Haldane
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-01/economists-may-be-underestimating-
how-fast-the-robots-are-coming

19. 8 Skilled Jobs that may soon be
replaced by Robots
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/8-skilled-jobs-may-soon-replaced-robots/
Accountants
Real estate agents
Writers
Attorneys
Professional Drivers
Medical StaffCashiers
Call Centre Operators

20. http://www.futureofwork.nz/

21. “We’re still working within the same
twentieth-century framework.
The thinking hasn’t changed. It’s just
couching what we’ve already done in
much fancier production values. It
looks cooler and more digitised, but the
underlying educational objectives have
not changed.”
Dr. Jane Gilbert
http://idealog.co.nz/etc/2015/03/educating-future-we-cant-imagine

22. “We need to move beyond the
idea that education is something
that is provided for us, and toward
the idea that an education is
something that we create
ourselves.”(Downes, 2010)

23. https://proquestionasker.github.io/

24. “…if we don’t change the way we are
teaching our young people, they will be
staggeringly ill-prepared for the future.”
Dr. Jane Gilbert
http://idealog.co.nz/etc/2015/03/educating-future-we-cant-imagine

25. The Future…
• Food supply
• Water
• Cryogenics
• Nano-technology
• Superdiversity
• Human rights
• Poverty
• Religious intolerance

26. “… the world has been focused on
developing basic literacy and numeracy
skills. These are foundational for
learning, and they continue to be
essential but not sufficient to prepare
our students for the complex world they
will face.
Schools, CoLs, and countries must find
ways to sustain continuous
improvement on the basics, while
building innovative practices to develop
what we call the deep learning.”
Coherence: The Right Drivers in Action for Schools, Districts, and Systems
2016 By Michael Fullan, Joanne Quinn

27. As we break, ponder this..
What are the most important things we need to
be preparing our learners to know, do, be?
To what extent are these being addressed in
our current classroom or school curriculum?
How do we continue to address the basics,
while building innovative practices to develop
deep learning?

28. Thank You
derek.wenmoth@core-ed.org
@dwenmoth
http://www.wenmoth.net
http://www.core-ed.org