Recently the AKA Professional Practice Team (Christine Murray, Rose Coppen and Kim Wyborn) presented the following workshop at the Early Childhood Council Conference in Rotorua and a Tamaki Makaurau Early Years Leadership Network Meeting.

We live in a changing world, like it or not!

The workshop was designed to provoke thinking about innovation and the importance of being open to new and unimagined ways of doing things.  Participants were encouraged to reflect on the rapidly changing technological world we live in and to wonder what this might mean for the future of teaching and learning.  They highlighted the fact that robots are coming and they could very well take over aspects of our jobs, so you would be wise to know what a teacher can do that a robot cannot (and cultivate those things!)  Participants considered what their role might be in helping to grow brilliant minds that think outside the square and create new technologies.  (If robots are coming, they might as well be Kiwi made, but what skills and dispositions will be needed to design them?)  The following video clips and articles influenced the workshop…