Video of my talk for Health Education England's horizon scanning workshop in June 2017, looking at how we can break out of our comfort zone and move our own personal Overton Window to think about teaching and learning in healthcare in the near future.

1. Through the OvertonWindow
Martin Hamilton
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2. About Jisc
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Photo CC BY-NC Flickr user feuilllu

3. Through the OvertonWindow
Three inputs:
1. Near future careers - from DNA editor to asteroid miner
2. Watching the OvertonWindow shift
3. Equipping today’s learners for tomorrow’s world
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4. 1. Near future careers:
From DNA editor to asteroid miner
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5. Near future careers
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Now hiring… DNA editors

6. Near future careers
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Now hiring… DNA editors, drone engineers

7. Near future careers
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Now hiring… DNA editors, drone engineers, asteroid miners

8. Near future careers
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SpaceX first stage booster landing, IRIDIUM-2 mission, June 2017 - via Elon Musk

9. 2. Watching the Overton Window shift
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10. Watching the OvertonWindow shift
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Left wing Right wingPolitics

11. Watching the OvertonWindow shift
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Left wing
“Corbynistas”
Right wing
“Alt-right”
Politics

12. Watching the OvertonWindow shift
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PoliticsLeft wing
“Corbynistas”

13. Watching the OvertonWindow shift
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Politics

14. Watching the OvertonWindow shift
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Politics
Technology

15. Watching the OvertonWindow shift
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Centralisation
Distributed tech
Politics
Technology

16. Watching the OvertonWindow shift
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Centralisation
”The Stacks”
Politics
Technology Distributed tech
e.g. Mastodon

17. Watching the OvertonWindow shift
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Politics
Distributed tech
e.g. Mastodon

18. Watching the OvertonWindow shift
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Politics

19. 3. Equipping today’s learners
for tomorrow’s world
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20. Equipping today’s learners for tomorrow’s world
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Displaced people:
› You might be surprised at just how much more can be
automated
– Amazon already employ 45,000 robots, around 12% of their
workforce is robotic. 370K UK taxi drivers, 3.5m US truck drivers
› Further erosion of unskilled and semi-skilled
employment opportunities
– Pepper robot as greeter in upscale malls, airports etc
› “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

21. Equipping today’s learners for tomorrow’s world
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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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22. That’s all folks!
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