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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...
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.
Topics: Future of Learning
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...
Topics: Systems Change
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...
Topics: Future of Learning
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...
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...
Topics: Future of Learning
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...
Topics: Vision and Culture
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...
Topics: Future of Learning
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.
Topics: Future of Learning
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.
Topics: Future of Learning
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...
Topics: Future of Learning
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.
Topics: Future of Learning
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...
Topics: Future of Learning
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.
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...
Topics: Future of Learning
Videos: Drivers of Change That Will Impact the Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
Trends, Patterns and Signals: Five Drivers of Change on the Horizon for Education
Though the future is inherently uncertain, it also rarely arrives unannounced.
Topics: Future of Learning
Forecast 5.0 – The Future of Learning: Navigating the Future of Learning
Discover how current trends could impact learning 10 years from now.
Topics: Future of Learning
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...
Topics: Future of Learning
Welcome to the Algorithmic Hiring Center
At the Thrival Festival’s Life.Code Interactive Experience, we simulated a hiring process from the year 2040.
Topics: Future of Learning
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...
Shaping the Future of Readiness in Ohio: Three Regional Strategy Guides
Strategy guides surface opportunities to reshape readiness as the rise of smart machines and the decline of full-time employment impact...
Topics: Future of Learning
Creating Digital Depth
Together, enhanced physical spaces, hybrid spaces and fully digital spaces form a digital depth spectrum as illustrated above. Each type of...
Topics: Future of Learning
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: A Regional Conversation on Redefining Readiness
The Pittsburgh region has begun the process of thinking through how readiness might come to be redefined.
Topics: Community Partnerships, Education Policy, ESSA, Future of Learning