Discover how current trends could impact learning ten years from now and consider ways to shape a future where all students can thrive.

Navigating the Future of Learning is KnowledgeWorks’ fifth comprehensive forecast on the future of learning. A new era is unfolding in which exponential advances in digital technologies are causing us to reevaluate our relationships with one another, with our institutions and with ourselves. As part of this shift, we have identified five drivers of change that will impact learning over the next decade and imagine what those drivers of change could mean for education. How these forces combine and interact will present a new context for education and a new landscape of choices for transforming teaching and learning.

• Automating Choices: Artificial intelligence and algorithms are automating many aspects of our lives
• Civic Superpowers: Engaged citizens and civic organizations are seeking to rebalance power
• Accelerating Brains: People have increasing access to tools and insights that are reshaping our brains in intended and unintended ways
• Toxic Narratives: Outdated and misaligned systems and metrics of success are contributing to chronic health issues, including rising rates of mental illness among children
• Remaking Geographies: Communities are working to remake themselves in the face of deep transitions

As you grapple with the changes on the horizon, delve into what they could mean for learning and consider what role you might play in shaping the future of learning, approaching the future with a spirit of exploration will help make it approachable.

We can never know how the future will unfold, but we can expand our ideas about what might be possible and necessary for learning. We can also identify where we might want to intervene, harness or adapt to shape a future of learning in which all students can thrive.

Exploring the future of learning today is an act of stewardship to our future communities and to the young people who will live in them.