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Critically Uncertain: The 2×2 Matrix and Futures for Liberatory Education
Why it’s important to spend time with uncertainty to help us clarify what we want from the future
Published: April 12, 2022
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
Video
A Need to Evolve: The Impact of Strained Education Systems
What tensions are straining education systems? Explore impacts on learners with disabilities, funding allocation and the educator workforce.
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Bringing Justice and Equity into Education
Gregg Seaton and Jason Swanson discuss contested power and how education leaders can help rethink systems and stakeholders.
Published: April 30, 2021
Topics: Education Equity, Future of Learning, Impact and Improvement, Systems Change
Topics: Education Equity, Future of Learning, Impact and Improvement, Systems Change
Video
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...
Publication
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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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: Futures Wheels
As part of our Futures Thinking Now series, we’ve provided the steps to uncover unexamined changes from major shifts or...
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The Maker Economy: Democratizing Production to Prototype Unique Solutions
There can be little doubt that the Maker Movement is here to stay and has had impacts on communities and...
Published: April 1, 2020
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
Article
Should K-12 Education Do More Than Prepare for College and Career?
What is the purpose of K-12 education? Maybe it depends on the student, or the needs of their family or...
Published: March 31, 2020
Topics: Vision and Culture
Topics: Vision and Culture
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Pattern Recognition: Following Data Trails and Discerning the Signals from the Noise
An expansion of data creation and use was a central theme of the Pattern Recognition driver of change from our...
Published: March 26, 2020
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
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Platforms for Resilience: Navigating Systems Shocks through Innovation and Cooperation
In the 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning, we explored the creation of new strategies for resiliency.
Published: February 28, 2020
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
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Navigating the Future of Learning in Christchurch, New Zealand
The Future of Learning conference in Christchurch, New Zealand, is dedicated to surfacing possibilities in Christchurch and beyond.
Published: October 25, 2019
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
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Navigating the Future of Learning: A Strategy Guide
This strategy guide is designed to help K-12 educators, postsecondary education institutions and community-based learning organizations take action with the...
Published: June 26, 2019
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
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A Community Dialogue on the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities
As AI is becoming increasingly prevalent; one community is thinking about what it means for them.
Published: March 25, 2019
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
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When You Think About the Future, What’s Your Time Horizon?
Exploring the future with a longer time horizon allows freedom to think as broadly as possible about potential changes and...
Published: January 14, 2019
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
Article
Discussion Guides for Forecast 5.0: Navigating the Future of Learning
These discussion guides are intended to help you explore and engage with future possibilities.
Video
Webinar Research Briefing: Navigating the Future of Learning
The authors of our forecast on the future of learning discuss how the major societal shifts we are currently experiencing...
Published: January 4, 2019
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
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Videos: Drivers of Change That Will Impact the Future of Learning
Published: December 12, 2018
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
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Trends, Patterns and Signals: Five Drivers of Change on the Horizon for Education
Though the future is inherently uncertain, it also rarely arrives unannounced.
Published: December 3, 2018
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
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Forecast 5.0 – The Future of Learning: Navigating the Future of Learning
Discover how current trends could impact learning 10 years from now.
Published: November 27, 2018
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
Article
Navigating the Future of Learning with the Simon Youth Foundation
Eeducators from Simon Youth Academies grappled with what drivers of change might mean for educational equity, learner agency and education...
Published: November 20, 2018
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
Article
Welcome to the Algorithmic Hiring Center
At the Thrival Festival’s Life.Code Interactive Experience, we simulated a hiring process from the year 2040.
Published: October 17, 2018
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
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Rebuilding in Christchurch: Creating the Future of Learning
Central to the approach we take the future of learning at KnowledgeWorks is the notion that the future is not...