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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.
Oli Anderson interviewed Education Futures‘ John Moravec for Design Decode, a project exploring design for improving the human experience.
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.
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.
This project examines digital citizenship in Mexico through national dialogue and participatory research. It brings together perspectives from students, teachers, parents, and policymakers.
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.
Education Futures founder Dr. John Moravec has embarked on a global tour to redesign mainstream education systems.
Who gets to decide what kids learn? For whose benefit is all this, really?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A global call to rethink the purpose, design, and impact of education in the 21st.
Last week, the Peruvian television program “Umbrales” (TV Perú) broadcasted a program on knowmads in Peru and Latin America. Dr.
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.
