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Defenders of the Water School: Education Rooted in Land, Language and Lifeways
The Defenders of the Water School was founded by Indigenous people on Indigenous principles. Learn how the school was created,...
Topics: Assessment and Accountability, Education Equity, Future of Learning, Vision and Culture
Why One Educator Describes ChatGPT as an “Expert Teacher’s Assistant”
An Ohio educator encourages others to consider the possibilities and limitations of AI in the classroom.
Topics: Future of Learning
Moving from Imagination to Action
This futures-thinking toolkit will help small groups of education stakeholders move from imagination to action.
Take a Tour of the Future
Earlier this year we held a workshop to create artifacts for liberatory education futures. We have some insights from the...
Topics: Future of Learning
Toolkit: Mapping Your Journey into Liberatory Education Futures
A toolkit for small groups helps you map to your preferred future of learning.
How Kentucky is Listening – and Acting – on Community and Student Voice
Three big ideas are shifting the center of power in education in Kentucky.
Topics: Assessment and Accountability, Future of Learning, Vision and Culture
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.
Julia E. Torres: Four Actionable Tips for an Inclusive Learning Environment
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
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.