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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
The Stories You Loved in 2020
What did you love this year? What did you find inspiring? What did you find helpful? We've compiled our top...
Topics: Building Capacity, Education Equity, Future of Learning, Social Emotional Learning
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,...
Topics: Future of Learning
Envisioning Human-Centered Learning Systems
Could the future of learning be human-centered? What could that mean for teaching and learning?
Smart Technologies in the Era of COVID-19
Engineering education researcher Kate Goodman shares her thoughts on foundational and emerging issues related to smart technologies in education in...
Topics: Future of Learning
Caregiving and the Future
Take a look at the opportunities, challenges and potential outcomes that resulted from scenarios of a recent play of the...
Befriending Uncertainty: Tools for Thinking and Collaborating
Introducing two tools for thinking about and collaborating to build education futures
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.
Topics: Future of Learning
Futures Triangle: A Futures Thinking Now Conversation
The Futures Triangle helps teams take history into account when examining the present and creating a common desired future together....
Systems Change, Meet Futures Thinking
How do futures thinking and systems change interact in envisioning the future of learning for everyone? Katherine Prince has more...
Topics: Future of Learning
Advocacy and Education Policies of Tomorrow
What possible futures does Anne Olson see in education policy, and what advocacy strategies can take us there? See her...
Now Is the Time for Futures Thinking
Education is the place to dive in together with futurists' tools to think about problems and solutions at a deeper,...
Topics: Future of Learning
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....
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
Education Futures: Balancing the Familiar and the Unknown
A publication aiming to help strategic foresight practitioners and organizations considering investing in Futures Studies
Topics: Future of Learning
Facing Uncertainty: A Futures Thinking Now Conversation
How does the future of learning look when faced with uncertainties presented by COVID-19? Katie King and Anne Olson discuss.
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: Communicating the Future
Creating scenarios presents a challenge to communicate what could happen, not just what you think is most likely to happen...
Futures Thinking Now: Drivers of Change and Futures Triangle
How can we apply futures thinking tools, such as the Futures Triangle, to help us look at possible futures in...
Futures Thinking Now: Examining Assumptions about the Future
Often we consider our assumptions to be fact. But do they have to be?
An Educated Person in 2035 and the Future of Learning
Katherine Prince was a featured speaker at the Sarasota Institute's first symposium of 2020, talking about the future of learning.
Topics: Future of Learning
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.
Topics: Future of Learning
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