Keynote presentation at the Culture of Change Tēnei ti Tira Hau pre-conference workshop in Auckland, October 2018.

1. The Robots are
Coming!
@dwenmoth

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xn6IDytVGw

3. It’s progress – but
progress towards what?
It’s true technology is
neutral – but only if you
take humans out of the
equation.
Richard Watson “Digital vs Human”

4. Our changing world
Aufgang Weltkugel Pixabay CCO
• 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?

5. • Moore's law (technology)
• Market (globalization)
• Mother Nature (climate
change and biodiversity loss)
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/books/review/
thomas-friedman-thank-you-for-being-late.html

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7. Floating_garbage byrev pixabay CC0

8. 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.
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.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/ai-poet/

9. Binary-one-cyborg geralt pixabay CC0
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

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

11. The second curve…RateofChange
Time
Technology
We are
here
Learning
faster and
governing
smarter

12. Technology-Future by BejjaminNelan Pixabay CC0
“In many industries and countries,
the most in-demand occupations
or specialties did not exist 10 or
even five years ago, and the pace
of change is set to accelerate. By
one popular estimate, 65% of
children entering primary school
today will ultimately end up
working in completely new job
types that don’t yet exist.”
2016, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland

13. AI-Robot Geralt Pixabay CC0
• Education is the powerhouse
of modern societies
• We need highly-skilled
people…
• …with increasingly
sophisticated skills and
digital competencies

14. Being right
Creating ideas
Listening to teacher
Questioning things
Working alone
Being active
Remembering facts
Showing initiative
Following instructions
Self-evaluating
Being adventurous
Accepting what you’re told
Discussing with peers
Copying down
Working with others
Sitting still
Taking responsibility
Showing respect
Imagining possible solutions
Being evaluated
What skills are we
cultivating?
Chalkboard BarbaraALane pixabay CC0

15. Being right
Creating ideas
Listening to teacher
Questioning things
Working alone
Being active
Remembering facts
Showing initiative
Following instructions
Self-evaluating
Being adventurous
Accepting what you’re told
Discussing with peers
Copying down
Working with others
Sitting still
Taking responsibility
Showing respect
Imagining possible solutions
Being evaluated
What skills are we
cultivating?
Chalkboard BarbaraALane pixabay CC0

16. Being adventurous
Creating ideas
Discussing with peers
Questioning things
Working with others
Being active
Imagining possible solutions
Showing initiative
Taking responsibility
Self-evaluating
Being right
Accepting what you’re told
Copying down
Listening to teacher
Sitting still
Working alone
Showing respect
Remembering facts
Following instructions
Being evaluated
What skills are we
cultivating?
Chalkboard BarbaraALane pixabay CC0
20th
Century
Clerk
Astronaut one_life pixabay CC0 Business_surprise ArtsyBee pixabay CC0
21st
Century
Explorer

17. “ It is not the most intellectual of
the species that survives; it is not
the strongest that survives; but
the species that survives is the
one that is able to adapt to and
to adjust best to the changing
environment in which it finds
itself”
Charles Darwin, “Origin of the Species”
Robot-mech Computerizer Pixabay CC0

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