An introduction to automation and education for the New Media Consortium's 2017 conference.

1. Automation, Creativity,
and Education
New Media Consortium Summer Conference
June 2017

2. https://www.flickr.com/photos/dlnorman/27513144566/

3. Suggested ground rules
•Discussion welcome!
•Different points of view supported
•No embarrassment permitted
•Please use social media and mobile
devices
…that includes the Google Doc

4. Taking automation seriously

5. https://deepmind.com/alphago

6. • Self-driving car
http://www.google.com/selfdrivingcar/

7. http://www.google.com/selfdrivingcar/

8. Can hardware and
software help us create?

14. Prehistorical signs
•Image filters
•Text editor suggestions
•Bots

15. Prehistorical signs
•Siri, Cortana, OK Google
•Google search autocomplete
•Duolingo
•Generative Adversarial
Networks (

16. Means
•Deep learning
•Neural networks, trained
•Generative Adversarial
Networks
•convolutional neural network

17. https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/23/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-meta/

19. Themes
•Spectrum: creating <-> assisting
•How does pedagogy change?
•Should we speak of artificial
creativity?

20. Possible implications
•Expand curriculum (Cyborg Music
Composition 101)
•Develop new, cyborg pedagogies
•And…?

21. http://bryanalexander.org
http://ftte.us
http://twitter.com/bryanalexander