Michael Cushman Senior Fellow

DaVinci Institute, Louisville, CO 80027

(303) 666-4133 - michael@davinciinstitute.com

Jefferson County

“Future of Education” Futurist Thomas Frey Executive Director, DaVinci Institute

How does the

future get

created?

The future gets

created in the minds of

people around us

People make decisions today

based on their interpretation of

what the future holds

Image by Stephan Martiniere

The Future

Creates the

Present

Our visions of

the future

determines our

actions today

Image by Stephan Martiniere

If we change people’s

visions of the future,

we change the way they

make decisions today

Future Education?

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We need to prepare

students for jobs that

don’t exist…

Defining the Problem

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Using technology

that hasn’t been

invented…

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To solve problems

we don’t even know

are problems yet!

What are Global Influencers

Saying?

Photo Robbie Photo Art

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“We are heading from a

world of 2 billion connected

to the internet in 2010 to 7

billion by 2020.”

- - Pete Diamandis

Founder of the

X-Prize Foundation

Global Influencers

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“90% of the news will

be written by

computers in 2030!”

- Kristian Hammond,

CTO of Narrative

Science

Global Influencers

Global Influencers

“Big data will

replace 80% of all

doctors”

- Vinod Khosla,

Co-founder of Sun

Microsystems and VC at

Kleiner Perkins

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Global Influencers

“3D printing will be

bigger than the

Internet.”

- Chris Anderson, Former

Managing Editor, WIRED

Magazine

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Powerful Words

“By 2019 half of all

K-12 classes will be

taught online.”

- Clayton Christiansen,

Harvard Professor and

Author of “The Innovators

Dilemma”

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Prediction

“By 2030 half of all

traditional colleges

will disappear.”

- Futurist Thomas Frey

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Where is Technology

Headed?

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Everyone

Knows a

Smart

Phone

Bends

Like This

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Everyone Knows the Smart

Home Looks Like This

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So, What is a Smart School?

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Two Unstoppable Trends

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UUbiquitous

Sensors and

Processors

Blended

Reality and

Shared

Meaning

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First Sense/Sixth Sense

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Internet of Everything

• 7+ billion people by 2020

• 50 billion “things” by 2020

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Anticipate Needs and Behavior

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Disappearing Devices

Thin, Flexible

Battery

Lenseless

Camera

Computer

Contact

Lenses

NOT This!

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Interactive

Device is

also

Shower

Walls

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Wear our Computers,

Fashionably

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Blended Reality and Shared

Meaning

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Projecting the Digital into the

Physical

Microsoft HoloLens

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Digitalize Anything with a

Camera

Decent job of

turning 2D into

3D

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Drone Laser Scan

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Spectrograph for Molecular

Content

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Whatever

Can be

Digitalized

Can be

Modified

Amit Zoran Design

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Modified

and

Printed

Amit Zoran Design

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3D Food Printers

Amit Zoran Design

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Body Scanners for perfect fit

Photo my best fit Inc

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3D Printing a House

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3D Printing - Today’s Materials

• Plastics

• Ceramics

• Concrete

• Metals

• Food

• Biological

Structures

• Liquids

• ????

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Physical Digital Physical

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Learning to See the World

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Easier to Work Together

How will future

Technology change

our vision of schools?

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Our Need for Smarter Schools

• Teacher Shortage - 18 Million globally

• 23% of all children do not attend school

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Photo Pilo Miliken

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Computers Will Do More

Teaching

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Learning Immersion

Microsoft HoloLens

Each Student will Choose The

“Teacher’s” Appearance

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It Knows: Alertness, Focus,

Mood

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Learning Becomes Customized,

even Anticipatory

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We Will Know Much More about

our Children’s Progress

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And We Need Humans for

Creative Group Experiences

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Cooperative Challenges

Facilitate Maker Spaces

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Exploring Open Spaces

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Building Robots

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Teaching Coping Skills

The Future is Ours to Write

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By 2030, the average person

• Own printed clothing

• Live in a printed house

• Have packages delivered by drones

• Own more than one robot

• Work as a freelancer

• Frequently use a driverless car

• Will be 3 times more educated

• Will be capable of accomplishing 10 times

as much as the average person today 60

Mark Twain

“A man who carries a

cat by the tail learns

something he can

learn in no other

way”

Photo Mark Twain Museum

“When you change the

way you look at things,

the things you look at

change.”

- - Max Planck (Nobel

Physicist)

Steve Jobs

“...right now is one of

those moments that

YOU are influencing the

future.”

- - Steve Jobs

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We are entering a period of

unprecedented opportunity

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Thomas Edison

“Opportunity is

missed by most

people because it

is dressed in

overalls and looks

like work.”

-- Thomas Edison

Beaumont Edison Museum

Future Plans at the DaVinci

Institute

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Micro-Colleges - DaVinci Institute

• Feb 2, 2015 - Ruby on Rails - 13 weeks

• Mar 3, 2015 - Game Design &

Development - 13 weeks

• TBA - How to Launch Your Own Drone

Business - 13 weeks

• TBA - JavaScript Front End

Development - 13 weeks

• TBA - Swift - Mobile Apps Full Stack

Development - 13 weeks 67

Future Plans at the DaVinci

Institute

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• Expand DaVinci Coders

• Create a Learning Laboratory

• Create a Maker Space for Course Creators

Learning Laboratory for Career-

Shifting Professionals

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Maker Space for Cutting Edge

Course Creators

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For more

information…

Michael Cushman Senior Fellow

DaVinci Institute

PO Box 270315

Louisville, CO 80027

(303) 666-4133

michael@davinciinstitute.com

Jefferson County

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