Digital skills for a new generation. Martin Hamilton's talk at EUNIS 2017 Our children and their children will have careers that we struggle to imagine – from DNA editors to asteroid miners. How will we equip them for this new world, and how will we bridge the gap between an increasingly interconnected world and the digitally disadvantaged?

1. Life on Mars – Digital skills for a new generation
Martin Hamilton
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2. Who am I?
» About Jisc
› edtech not-for-profit with ~18m users
› We run shared services, negotiate deals
with IT vendors, provide advice & guidance
– e.g. Janet, Shibboleth Consortium, eduroam
– OpenAIRE, EUDAT, Knowledge Exchange, EOSC
› Major initiatives right now in digital skills,
research data and learning analytics
› My role:
– Generating & channelling new ideas
– Building partnerships to bring them to fruition
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Pepper robot at Jisc Digifest 2017

3. Who am I?
» About Jisc
› edtech not-for-profit with ~18m users
› We run shared services, negotiate deals
with IT vendors, provide advice & guidance
– Janet, Shibboleth Consortium, eduroam
– OpenAIRE, EUDAT, Knowledge Exchange, EOSC
› Major initiatives right now in digital skills,
research data and learning analytics
› My role:
– Generating & channelling new ideas
– Building partnerships to bring them to fruition
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Pepper robot at Jisc Digifest 2017

4. Life on Mars
Digital skills for a new generation:
1. Near future careers - from DNA editor to asteroid miner
2. Equipping today’s learners for tomorrow’s world
3. Supporting the digitally disadvantaged to achieve their
potential
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5. 1. Near future careers:
From DNA editor to asteroid miner
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6. Near future careers
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Now hiring… DNA editors

7. Near future careers
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Now hiring… drone engineers

8. Near future careers
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Now hiring… asteroid miners (planetaryresources.com)

9. Near future careers
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SpaceX first stage booster landing,THAICOM8 mission, May 2016

10. Near future careers
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11. Near future careers
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12. 2. Equipping today’s learners
for tomorrow’s world
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13. Equipping today’s learners for tomorrow’s world
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http://ji.sc/developing-digicap

14. Equipping today’s learners for tomorrow’s world
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15. Equipping today’s learners for tomorrow’s world
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16. Equipping today’s learners for tomorrow’s world
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Photo CC BY-ND Flickr user chijs
Photo CC BY-NC-SA Flickr user portalgda
› Tesla owners have already driven over 140m miles on Autopilot
› 90,000+Teslas with Autopilot are already on the road

17. Equipping today’s learners for tomorrow’s world
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Photo CC BY-ND Flickr user chijs
Photo CC BY-NC-SA Flickr user portalgda
› Tesla owners have already driven over 140m miles on Autopilot
› 90,000+Teslas with Autopilot are already on the road

18. Equipping today’s learners for tomorrow’s world
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Google DeepMindAI learns to play Breakout

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Obstacle detection and avoidance in the Google self-driving car

20. Equipping today’s learners for tomorrow’s world
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21. Equipping today’s learners for tomorrow’s world
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22. Equipping today’s learners for tomorrow’s world
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VLE data
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Student record system
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Attendance data
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Library data
Buildings data
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Learning space data
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Location data
Teaching quality data
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Assessment data
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Curriculum design
data
Content data
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Learning pathways
data
Better retention
and attainment
Retention and
attainment
Retention and
attainment
Retention and
attainment
A more efficient
campus
Improved teaching
& curricula
Personalised and
adaptive learning
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Improving teaching
& curricula
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Learning
analytics
Institutional
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Educational
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Analytics and AI
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Startups and scaleups
› Jisc Startups competition
– Six month accelerator programme
– Support package includes cash grant
and mentoring
› Winners: Wildfire Learning
– World’s first AI content creation
service for learning
– Create learning objects from any text,
PowerPoint or video
– Generate a course’s worth of content
in an hour
– www.wildfirelearning.co.uk

24. 3. Supporting the digitally disadvantaged
to achieve their potential
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25. Supporting the digitally disadvantaged
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Photo CC BY-NC Flickr user feuilllu
Photo CC BY-NC Flickr user nestle
› Pepper acts as greeter in 140+ SoftBank stores in Japan
› Nestlé planning to introduce in 1000+ sales outlets

26. Supporting the digitally disadvantaged
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Pepper the robot visits the FinancialTimes

27. Supporting the digitally disadvantaged
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Photo CC BY-NC Flickr user greenplasticamy
› Amazon uses over 45,000 robots already in its
warehouses and distribution centres

28. Supporting the digitally disadvantaged
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Photo CC BY-NC Flickr user greenplasticamy
› Amazon uses over 45,000 robots already in its
warehouses and distribution centres

29. Supporting the digitally disadvantaged
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From http://futurism.com

30. Supporting the digitally disadvantaged
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Displaced people:
› You might be surprised at just how much
more can be automated
› Further erosion of unskilled and semi-skilled
employment opportunities
– Watch out if your white collar job can be reduced to an
algorithm or “learned” from data
› “New Luddites” throwing stones at the
Google bus?
– Versus universal basic income?
– Versus psychological need for a greater purpose?
› Health implications of sedentary lifestyles,
musculoskeletal disorders
– Already 86% of Chinese high school students are
myopic – screen time & indoor play?
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CC BY Flickr user boykoblagoev

31. Supporting the digitally disadvantaged
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Developing digital capability:
› There will be whole new careers & existing
ones will change beyond recognition
– We should view this as an opportunity, e.g. smart
homes need smart plumbers & smart electricians
› We will need to embrace portfolio careers &
continuous/bite sized learning
– No longer enough to learn a trade or achieve
professional certification
› Impedance mismatch between digital tech
and the apparatus of the nation state
– Brexit vs. Estonian e-residency
› Reaching the next billion learners
– Last mile issues for trans-national education
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Tri-modal model for innovation CC-BY Simon Wardley:
blog.gardeviance.org/2012/06/pioneers-settlers-and-
town-planners.html

32. New horizon scan report just out!
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https://www.jisc.ac.uk/reports/open-by-default

33. That’s all folks!
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Except where otherwise noted, this
work is licensed under CC-BY
Connect with me:
Martin Hamilton
Futurist, Jisc, London
@martin_hamilton
martin.hamilton@jisc.ac.uk
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