New paper, Unprepared: Education beyond 2030
In a new paper, John Moravec argues that education’s crisis beyond 2030 is not a lack of preparation but the loss of power to govern the systems shaping learning, work, and public life.
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Education Futures is the independent research and advisory practice of Dr. John W. Moravec. We work with education leaders to understand the changes reshaping learning, turn research into strategy, and build more capable, imaginative institutions.
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Selected research, books, and field notes for the choices ahead.
The crisis is not artificial intelligence; It is institutional imagination
This article argues that education’s central crisis is not artificial intelligence but institutional imagination. It examines why schools reproduce outdated pedagogies even when new technologies make other possibilities visible.
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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.
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Learning is not a product to be delivered, managed, or standardized. It grows when people have the freedom to question, create, connect, and act with others.
We work with educators, institutions, and communities to create the conditions for agency and self-efficacy: the freedom to shape one’s path and the confidence to act on it.
Building the future as a public good.
Power, knowledge, and institutional purpose shape the future. We work with partners to turn research into public tools and practical alternatives that expand who can participate in making it.
01Manifesto 25What we believe: education is a human, public, and democratic endeavor—and a site for collective agency.02Build a Positive RebellionWhat it takes: organize, create alternatives, and make institutions answerable to the futures they shape.03Global Education Futures Readiness IndexA measure of where education systems are prepared for what is changing—and where they are not.04KnowMappedGraph knowledge: make complex knowledge visible, connected, and open to exploration, dialogue, and action.
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Articles, research notes, and announcements from the work in progress.
Educating for what machines can’t do is the wrong approach
As AI takes on more codified work, schools need to develop the personal knowledge people use to create new value.
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Introducing KnowMapped: A platform for mapping knowledge
KnowMapped began as an internal tool at Education Futures. We built it because we kept working with ideas that were difficult to represent in ordinary documents, slide decks, or outlines.
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GEFRI mid-2026 update released
The mid-2026 GEFRI update provides a view of how well education systems are positioned to respond to social, technological, economic, and institutional change.
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AI, coloniality, and educational sovereignty
This paper examines how artificial intelligence can reproduce colonial patterns in education and knowledge production. It calls for educational sovereignty, institutional responsibility, and more critical approaches to AI policy.
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The tool was never the problem: Phone bans, AI, and the failure of control
This article examines what school phone bans reveal about control, trust, and the purpose of education. It argues that the debate is less about devices than about how institutions understand learning and student agency.
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Second channel resilience: Preserving educational coördination in low-connectivity environments
Explore how LoRa-based mesh (Meshtastic) communication can keep education programs running when the internet and electricity fail.
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