Search
Find articles, publications, projects, and pages across Education Futures.
- 1.0 schools cannot teach 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 … kids
In one classroom, a student copies notes about a centuries-old war. Outside that school, they build game mods, edit videos for social media, and debate politics in global online forums.
- 2025 GEFRI finds wide readiness gaps and a global innovation bottleneck
The 2025 Global Education Futures Readiness Index (GEFRI) finds wide differences in how prepared countries are for education futures. It examines readiness across infrastructure, human capital, access, innovation, and governance.
- A comparative analysis of AI in education policy frameworks and initiatives
The integration of artificial intelligence into educational settings is rapidly transforming the landscape of teaching and learning. As AI becomes more common in schools, strong policies are needed to use it effectively and ethically.
- A theory for invisible learning
This second article in a three-part series develops a theory of invisible learning. It examines how informal, non-formal, and serendipitous experiences shape what people know.
- Acknowledgements
Manifesto 25 was never meant to be a solitary project. From its earliest drafts to this companion book, it has been shaped by conversations, critiques, encouragement, and acts of generosity from friends and colleagues around the world.
- Activism as learning: When students teach the system a lesson
This article argues that activism can be one of learning’s most authentic expressions. It explores how organizing, civic participation, and speaking truth to power develop knowledge and agency.
- Learning at the intersection of agency and self-efficacy
At the heart of meaningful education is a powerful idea: learners thrive when they are trusted to shape their learning and believe they are capable of success. This fusion of agency (being afforded real choices) and self-efficacy (believing in one’s ability to act on those choices) transforms education from routine compliance into purposeful growth.
- AI and open educational resources
David Wiley’s recent post at Improving Learning got me thinking about the rise of “generative OER” for content creation and customization and how AI is reshaping educational content. He also touches on the idea of “open prompts” and “open weights” as emerging forms of OER, enabling users to adapt content for specific needs.
- AI as anti-democratic infrastructure (and what education can do about it)
Alex Karp (2026), CEO of Palantir, recently framed AI as a force that will reduce the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat,” while increasing the power of non-college-educated, working-class men.
- Demonstrating AI-powered student feedback for low-resource environments
Virtual Alchemy explores how AI-powered formative feedback can expand learning access where teachers are difficult to reach. The project integrates an AI bot with Moodle for remote, resource-constrained, and crisis-affected settings.
- Announcing the GEFRI public beta
The Global Education Futures Readiness Index (GEFRI) is now available in public beta. GEFRI is a new, open tool for benchmarking how prepared countries are for the future of education.
- Approaches for enabling invisible learning
This final article in a three-part series presents approaches for enabling invisible learning. It highlights participation, play, exploration, and learner self-determination.
- Authentic learning comes from freedom, not from being pushed into a predetermined path
For too long, education has been structured around control. Students are placed on predetermined paths, told what to learn, when to learn it, and how their success will be measured.
- Bad use of technology is a symptom, not the problem
This article argues that failures involving educational technology are symptoms of deeper problems in how learning is designed. It calls for using technology to transform learning rather than simply reproducing old practices.
- Toward creative futures, beyond standardization
Standardization prioritizes predictability over possibility, compliance over creativity, and repetition over risk-taking. When education reduces students to manufactured products, it ignores their unique potential to seek out their own passions and solve problems creatively.
- Cómo las grandes empresas tecnológicas están colonizando silenciosamente la educación
Los educadores enfrentan una creciente sensación de preocupación frente a la inteligencia artificial. Nuevas herramientas ingresan a las aulas más rápido de lo que las políticas pueden adaptarse.
- Break the rules that break us
In classrooms built for quiet, success often means staying inside the lines, even as the world outside demands we redraw them. Today’s schools reward silent conformity over courageous inquiry, sending an implicit message to learners: don’t ask too much, don’t reach too far.
- Build a Positive Rebellion
Education Futures announces the release of Build a Positive Rebellion: Create New Education Futures, a book by Dr. John W. Moravec about transforming education for a changing world.
- 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.
- 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.
- In the absence of hope, we must build communities of trust
In many places, unfortunately including my home country of the United States, learning is no longer nurtured. It is managed.
- Is the end nigh for white collar workers?
It’s almost amusing (if it weren’t so tragic) how each new wave of AI panic gets dressed up as breaking news. “AI could kill millions of jobs,” the experts say, as if this were a revelation.
- Charting the uncharted: Navigating the intersection of disruptive tech and education
We find ourselves in an era where the languages of technology—bytes, pixels, and algorithms—have become as fundamental as the ABCs we learned in school. But are our educational systems keeping up?
- 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.