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Meet Jayden Harris, Youth Justice Advocate
Jayden Harris is a tireless champion of Black youth, and his hopes for the future just might be yours, too.
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Meet Governor Williams, an Ambitious, Community-Minded Leader
A character from IMPACT: Learning Edition, Karissa Williams helps players explore the future for community leaders.
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Meet Ayren Batiste, a Future High-School Junior with Their Eyes on Success
Ayren is a fictional character from IMPACT: Learning Edition, and what they want for the future you might want, too.
Published: September 21, 2021
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Learning as a Lifelong Personal Practice
As she models her own lifelong and lifewide learning, Katherine Prince digs into an essential vision element from Envisioning Human-Centered...
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Grappling with Today’s Education Tensions
Complication and opportunity were keywords in conversation with KnowledgeWorks staff while discussing tensions affecting education's futures.
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Shaping Postsecondary Education’s Futures
Explore trends shifting the postsecondary landscape, look at COVID-19’s impacts and see future possibilities for postsecondary education.
Published: February 18, 2021
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
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We Need Human-Centered Learning Systems
Katherine Prince introduces Envisioning Human-Centered Learning Systems - how it came about, why it's needed and what's in it.
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Education in the Balance: Tensions Affecting Education’s Futures
Exposing issues as COVID-19 continues to unfold and the longstanding movement toward racial justice continues to gain traction
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Futures Thinking for Education Programs
Even as we navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, we are also living through an era shift. What forces are shaping learning,...
Published: December 1, 2020
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
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Caregiving and the Future
Take a look at the opportunities, challenges and potential outcomes that resulted from scenarios of a recent play of the...
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What Do We Want for Education Post-Pandemic?
What's required of us to build a shared vision for education? A recent conversation from Philanthropy Forward provides some insight.
Published: October 15, 2020
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
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Observing Interconnections: A Futures Thinking Now Conversation
One of the Futures Studies tools everyone can use to analyze issues at the systems level is a Connection Circle....
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Communicating the Future: A Futures Thinking Now Conversation
Katherine Prince and Jason Swanson chat about the tools and resources needed to frame and prepare for change and why...
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Remaking Tomorrow Explores a Just, Learner-Centered Future for Education in the Greater Pittsburgh Region
In partnership with Remake Learning, KnowledgeWorks presents Remaking Tomorrow: Learning in a Post-Pandemic Future.
Published: August 10, 2020
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
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Education Futures: Balancing the Familiar and the Unknown
A publication aiming to help strategic foresight practitioners and organizations considering investing in Futures Studies
Published: August 5, 2020
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
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The Education Changemaker’s Guidebook to Systems Thinking
This guidebook introduces the theories, language, mindsets and tools of systems thinking for the purpose of informing approaches to systems...
Published: June 30, 2020
Topics: Systems Change
Topics: Systems Change
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The Future of Learning and COVID-19
Individuals from more than 20 countries joined us for a recent informal webinar exploring future tensions and uncertainties arising from...
Published: May 22, 2020
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
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Futures Thinking Now: Communicating the Future
Creating scenarios presents a challenge to communicate what could happen, not just what you think is most likely to happen...
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Futures Thinking Now: Observing Interconnections
Systems thinking involves looking at an education system as if it were complex, cyclical and interconnected. We look at some...
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Imagining Early Learning Alternatives
We asked, “How might stakeholders create dignified and self-affirming early learning experiences for all children?” Here's what KnowledgeWorks and Capita...
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The Future of Learning in Retrospective
Those of us who care about the future of learning are fortunate to get to shape what learning looks like.
Published: April 6, 2020
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
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Reexamining the Role of Caregiving in Society
How might stakeholders reexamine the role of caregiving in society, setting up systems, structures and narratives that reflect the true...
Published: January 10, 2020
Topics: Early Childhood
Topics: Early Childhood
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Want to Help Children and Families Flourish? Try Shifting Perspective
To improve support for young children and their families, we need to broaden our viewpoints.
Published: January 6, 2020
Topics: Early Childhood
Topics: Early Childhood
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Now, It’s 2020
The 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning looked to a future time horizon. And that time is now.
Published: January 2, 2020
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning