Ed-Tech Agitprop

OEB 2019

Transcript

1. ED-TECH AGITPROP
   Audrey Watters, Hack Education
   @audreywatters
   OEB 2019
   

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2. THE ED-TECH IMAGINARY
   

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3. WHOA. I KNOW KUNG FU.
   

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4. WHOA. THAT IS SOME B.S.
   

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5. “…the human brain must be made to
   conform to the much more advanced brain of
   the machine. And education will no longer be
   an unpredictable and exciting adventure in
   human enlightenment, but an exercise in
   conformity and an apprenticeship to
   whatever gadgetry is useful in a technical
   world.”
   – Jacques Ellul (1954)
   

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9. • 65% of children entering primary school today will end up in jobs that
   don’t exist yet
   • The “half-life” of skills is 5 years
   • People are changing jobs more frequently than they ever have before,
   and they’re performing a wider variety of new jobs
   • 40% of all jobs will be automated in the next 15 years
   • Technology is changing faster than it has ever changed before
   

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10. • 65% of children entering primary school today will end up in jobs that
    don’t exist yet
    • The “half-life” of skills is 5 years
    • People are changing jobs more frequently than they ever have before,
    and they’re performing a wider variety of new jobs
    • 40% of all jobs will be automated in the next 15 years
    • Technology is changing faster than it has ever changed before
    

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11. • 65% of children entering primary school today will end up in jobs that
    don’t exist yet
    • The “half-life” of skills is 5 years
    • People are changing jobs more frequently than they ever have before,
    and they’re performing a wider variety of new jobs
    • 40% of all jobs will be automated in the next 15 years
    • Technology is changing faster than it has ever changed before
    

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12. • 65% of children entering primary school today will end up in jobs that
    don’t exist yet
    • The “half-life” of skills is 5 years
    • People are changing jobs more frequently than they ever have before,
    and they’re performing a wider variety of new jobs
    • 40% of all jobs will be automated in the next 15 years
    • Technology is changing faster than it has ever changed before
    

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13. • 65% of children entering primary school today will end up in jobs that
    don’t exist yet
    • The “half-life” of skills is 5 years
    • People are changing jobs more frequently than they ever have before,
    and they’re performing a wider variety of new jobs
    • 40% of all jobs will be automated in the next 15 years
    • Technology is changing faster than it has ever changed before
    

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14. • 65% of children entering primary school today will end up in jobs that
    don’t exist yet
    • The “half-life” of skills is 5 years
    • People are changing jobs more frequently than they ever have before,
    and they’re performing a wider variety of new jobs
    • 40% of all jobs will be automated in the next 15 years
    • Technology is changing faster than it has ever changed before
    

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16. REFERENCES:
    • Benjamin Doxtdator, “A Field Guide to ‘Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet’”
    • Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, “Changes in the Occupational Structure of the United
    States, 1860 to 2015”
    • Economic Policy Institute, “Nonstandard Work Arrangements and Older Americans, 2005-2017”
    • Economic Innovation Group, “Dynamism in Retreat”
    • Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, “Job-to-Job Transitions in an Evolving Labor Market”
    • Jill Lepore, “Are Robots Competing for Your Job?”
    • Robert Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth
    • Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society
    • Audrey Watters, “The Best Way to Predict the Future Is to Issue a Press Release”
    

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17. IMAGE CREDITS:
    • The Matrix
    • cover of LEF (artwork by Alexander Rodchenko)
    • Soviet space posters (artists unknown)
    

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