The power and potential of EdTech: Using AI as a study tool … and maybe more
As reported in The Verge, Quizlet, came up with AI features to assist students using their tools. The notion sounds compelling, right?
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Embracing the AI storm in learning
Manifesto 15, conceptualized in 2015, is a forward-thinking document outlining a vision for the future of education. It proposes a shift from traditional, rigid, and standardized educational models to flexible, learner-centered, and experience-driven paradigms that embrace change, encourage lifelong learning, and foster creativity.
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Coach Digital: Sierra Leone
Coach Digital Sierra Leone delivers offline-first coaching tools that help teachers strengthen foundational teaching skills. The initiative supports professional learning in one of the world’s least connected environments.
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Disruptive technologies and global transformations
The past year was crucially important for the world to work on building better futures for education as societies found ways to better cope with COVID-19 and schools gradually reopened. At the same time, the world experienced tremendous setbacks, such as global disruptions caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the climate catastrophe in Pakistan, with floods that destroyed or damaged nearly 27,000 schools.
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Mapping disruptive technologies and the future of education in the Prague Region
This project applies strategic foresight to guide educational transformation in Prague. It considers how digital and disruptive technologies can inform education policy and practice.
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Building a global education policy academy
This project develops a modular, gamified platform for education policy learning. It is designed to strengthen professional learning and policy capacity across education systems.
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Engaging youth to solve global grand challenges
This project develops a scalable, story-based learning platform to engage young people with global grand challenges. It connects experiential learning with digital tools and opportunities for meaningful action.
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International education in the era of COVID-19
Note: This article originally appeared in Sociální Pedagogika | Social Education, 8(1), 38-42.
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Digital landscape review and prototyping of technologies for teacher coaching
This project provides strategic design and implementation guidance for scalable, inclusive teacher coaching. It reviews digital learning platforms and educational technologies for use across low- and middle-income contexts.
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“No future” if we do not make serious efforts to invest in and modernize education
Czech media maverick Bohumil “Bob” Kartous asks, can steam engines carry us into the virtual world?
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Ihanainen’s affordances of pedagogy
Pekka Ihanainen, a Finnish teacher educator, is one of the most abstract, conceptual thinkers I have ever known. He is a crafter of ideas.
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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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Building a Leapfrog University
In 2006, the University of Minnesota engaged in a strategic repositioning process to transform it into one of the top universities in the world. To many, it seemed like a lot of promises, but not much substance.
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Plan Ceibal 2020: Future scenarios for technology and education
I am pleased to have collaborated with Matías Mateu and Cristóbal Cobo on the publication of research regarding the future of Uruguay’s national technological and innovation policy initiative, Plan Ceibal. As this paper is directly related to Matías‘ master’s thesis, Cristóbal and I took on largely advisory roles to support his work.
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Designing campus futures
A few months ago, I received an invitation for a dream gig. Simon Fraser University at Burnaby, British Columbia is designing a master plan to guide the institution for the next 50 years, and they needed an education futurist to provide some thought leadership.
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