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Tech Futures for Liberating Learners
Take into account these key considerations to help ensure that education technologies are designed and deployed to liberate learners.
Topics: Future of Learning
Accelerating toward what?
Simply adding technologies to education systems does not change them in any fundamental way. It makes them more efficient at...
Meet the Faces of IMPACT: Learning Edition
Meet the characters from IMPACT: Learning Edition, a game designed to spark conversations about the future of learning.
Topics: Future of Learning
Hope Yet: Centering Youth Voice in Climate Disruption
Youth are leading the fight against the climate crisis. How can educators help them?
Topics: Future of Learning
Uneven Changes in Education Over the Past Decade
The wave of disintermediation that had been restructuring many sectors ended up affecting education less deeply than we had thought...
Topics: Future of Learning
Looking for a Learning Landscape, 10 Years On
Though still uncommon in the US, learning landscapes are gaining traction, especially during COVID. But the momentum is lost when...
Topics: Future of Learning
Weaving Webs of Personalization
Reflecting on the power of value-driven customization and personalization – with opportunities for co-created value propositions and challenges in foundational...
Topics: Future of Learning
Cutting Out the Middleman: Networks and Education
Reflecting on networked forms of organization that deliver new levels of differentiation and specialization – and the challenges of having...
Topics: Future of Learning
Balancing Big Data: Insights for Education
Reflecting on our third anchor forecast’s insights on the effects of collecting, analyzing and using massive amounts of data
Topics: Future of Learning
Startup? Yes. Democratization? Not so much.
Reflecting on innovation and entrepreneurship as it translates to a public good like education and the challenge of competing agendas
Topics: Future of Learning
Five Disruptions That We Thought Could Change Everything
KnowledgeWorks’ third major forecast anticipated significant reshaping of learning. Now that it is 2022, we have reached the time horizon...
Topics: Future of Learning
Liberatory Education Today: AfroRithms from the Future
Guest author and contributor to our forecast Lonny Brooks explains how the gamified forecasting tool AfroRithms from the Futures works.
Liberatory Education: Fulfilling Education’s Promises
What do systems look like when they move from equity to liberation? Take a look.
Tips from Torres
Language arts teacher-librarian Julia E. Torres provides actionable tips for creating inclusive and engaging classrooms.
Capita Futures Toolkit
This toolkit contains instructions, examples and templates to examine current realities, explore possibilities and chart a course forward.
Topics: Future of Learning
Dreaming Into Learning Futures
This publication, created in partnership with the Reinvention Lab and with input from many, explores where education could be headed...
Topics: Future of Learning
For Future Business Leader Ying Cho, People, Planet and Profit Are Entwined
Ying Cho is a character from the IMPACT: Learning Edition board game. Learn more about what drives him.
Vote for KnowledgeWorks in SXSWedu 2023 Panel Picker
SXSWEdu Panel Picker features a panel from KnowledgeWorks and the Reinvention Lab.
Topics: Future of Learning
Working Toward a Liberatory Education System: Q&A with Laura Hilger
Liberatory education can mean different things to different people. Here’s how one of our teaching and learning directors sees it.
Explore the Future with Sequoia Yazzie, Well-Being Coordinator
Sequoia Yazzie is a character from the IMPACT: Learning Edition board game. Learn more about what drives her.
Foundations for De-Siloing Education Systems
How a network approach to systems change fosters authentic collaboration and meaningful transformations
Valuing Difference: A Conversation About Liberatory Education
Liberatory education: What is it? Why do we need it?
Make Sense of the Future with Assessment Guru Alex Weber
Alex Weber is a character from the IMPACT: Learning Edition board game. Learn more about what drives him.
How I’m Using Imagining Liberatory Education Futures
A futurist walks us through how she works with our forecast Imagining Liberatory Education Futures and applies it locally.
Topics: 101, Community Partnerships, Future of Learning, Vision and Culture