John Moravec: Evolving our understanding of education and helping humans to be more ‘human’
Oli Anderson interviewed Education Futures‘ John Moravec for Design Decode, a project exploring design for improving the human experience.
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New book: Emerging education futures
Education Futures is pleased to announce the release of the book, Emerging education futures: Experiences and visions from the field. With contributions from four continents, this volume reveals a ‘snapshot’ of some of our best thinking for building new education futures.
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What do we know about digital citizenship in Mexico?
Education Futures founder John Moravec lead a diagnostic review the Secretary of Public Education’s digital citizenship program in Mexico, bringing together voices of students, teachers, and parents.
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Understanding digital citizenship in Mexico
This project examines digital citizenship in Mexico through national dialogue and participatory research. It brings together perspectives from students, teachers, parents, and policymakers.
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Cheating the death of imagination: Teaching the unknowable
The idea of a Technological Singularity has been discussed and debated intensely since the early 1990s. Coined by Vernor Vinge and popularized by Ray Kurzweil, the idea is that as technologies evolve, technologies improve, costs decrease; and, in turn, the process of technological evolution advances and speeds itself up, creating a J-curve of exponential, accelerating change.
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John Moravec embarks on global tour to redesign education
Education Futures founder Dr. John Moravec has embarked on a global tour to redesign mainstream education systems.
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Invisible learning: The (r)evolution outside of the classroom
Who gets to decide what kids learn? For whose benefit is all this, really?
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Educational innovation in Puebla
Education Futures and Fundación Ceibal (Uruguay) are pleased to share the outcomes of their 2-month research project for the Secretary of Public Education of the State of Puebla (“SEP-Puebla,” Mexico). Dr.
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The future of digital technologies in Uruguayan primary education
This project examines how Uruguay’s Plan Ceibal shaped educational technology and community participation. It asks what comes next for meaningful, equitable use of digital tools in primary education.
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Educational innovation in Puebla
This project creates a participatory roadmap for educational innovation in Puebla, Mexico. It grounds recommendations in the voices and experiences of students, teachers, and other education stakeholders.
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John Moravec at the World Bank Youth Summit: Knowmadic futures for youth
Youth are the main consumers and participants in education. Despite intimate knowledge of the successes and failures of modern education, youth rarely become architects, shapers, or producers of a system that is built on their behalf.
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Designing the future of research libraries and special libraries in Knowmad Society
This article considers how research and special libraries can evolve for a Knowmad Society. It explores the changing role of libraries in connecting people, knowledge, technology, and innovation.
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Creative classrooms in Patagonia
Education Futures founder, John Moravec, had the pleasure of visiting with the Ministry of Education in the Province of Chubut, Argentina for Aulas Creativas on February 27-28 this year. The program team recently published this excellent video, which outlines new perspectives for thinking about education.
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Manifesto 15
A global call to rethink the purpose, design, and impact of education in the 21st.
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Knowmads on Umbrales
Last week, the Peruvian television program “Umbrales” (TV Perú) broadcasted a program on knowmads in Peru and Latin America. Dr.
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Rise of the Knowmads: John Moravec at TEDxUMN
Knowmads are nomadic knowledge workers –creative, imaginative, and innovative people who can work with almost anybody, anytime, and anywhere. The jobs associated with 21st century knowledge and innovation workers have become much less specific concerning task and place, but require more value-generative applications of what they know.
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Defining the “Knowmads” of work and education in the 21st Century
Read this special issue of On the Horizon for free until 20 June 2013.
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