The document discusses the need for changes to New Zealand's classrooms to better educate the future workforce for an increasingly automated world. It notes that technology is driving rapid changes requiring education reform to help both current and future workers survive and succeed. The solution proposed encourages policymakers to utilize open source platforms like edX to equip both students and educators with the skills needed to navigate tomorrow's changing job market and locations of operation.

1. Classrooms of the Future
What needs to change?

2. Mission Statement:
To promote discussions amongst New Zealand
parents and policy makers about the need for fresh
approaches to educating tomorrow's workforce.

3. The problem
As technology drives the fourth
industrial revolution forward at a
rapid rate, the need to provide New
Zealand’s current and future
workforce with the education it
needs to both survive and succeed
in tomorrow's world needs to be
addressed today.
The Future of Jobs Report 2018: World Economic Forum.
Projected (2022) effects on the workforce of current growth.
Reduced
current
workforce
due to
automation
Modified
the
locations
of
operation
Expanded
use of
contractor
Expanded
current
workforce
due to
automation
28%
48% 48%
50%

4. The Solution
Policy makers need
to utilise open
source educational
platforms to better
equip both the
student and the
educator for
success.

5. https://www.edx.org/