Category Archives: Future learning

Trusteeship, Wisdom, and the Creative Future of Education?

What role does, and should, creativity play in education? What role can and should creativity play in designing the school of the future? This article explores the ascendance of creativity in education in the late 20th and early 21st century, … Continue reading

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Education – What Will Be Obsolete in 2020?

Expounding on the ideas of the wildly popular article 21 Things That Will Be Obsolete in 2020, we asked a few of those who attended Big Ideas Fest, a recent gathering of teachers, administrators, entrepreneurs and policymakers, to predict what … Continue reading

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As escolas do futuro

Esqueçam que esta escola tem um visual bacana – sério, deem uma olhada no site da Vittra Telefonplan, o lugar é muito legal – e conta com ensino bilingue, até porque toda boa escola hoje em dia, pelo menos no … Continue reading

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Critical Skills and Learning Methods for the Future

I believe the accelerated pace of change, the increased complexity of the business environment, and the requirement for individual differentiation will place a new premium on individual, self-directed learning.  Continual, personalized learning will be the key to individual growth and … Continue reading

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A World-Class Education: Learning from International Models of Excellence and Innovation

Designed to promote conversation about how to educate students for a rapidly changing and increasingly borderless and innovation-based world, this comprehensive and illuminating book from international education expert Vivien Stewart is not about casting blame; it is about understanding what … Continue reading

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Future Learning and OER

Imagine the day when students, because of the very nature of how they were taught, expect to and actually do verify the information they find online, work to produce content that adds to the body of knowledge in a given … Continue reading

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Education is failing the future-makers

Perhaps a single educational institution isn’t enough — or maybe the concept of an “institution” is all wrong. Maybe these thinkers had to drop out in order to find the various pieces of education, inspiration and experimentation they needed to … Continue reading

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Five Educational Trends for the Next Decade

Micro-learning: The availability of knowledge accessible in the real world and at any time creates the conditions for learning that is easy, lightweight, and done in context when a person really wants or needs to learn. Rich ecology of content … Continue reading

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The future of thinking: learning institutions in a digital age

Over the past two decades, the way we learn has changed dramatically. We have new sources of information and new ways to exchange and to interact with information. But our schools and the way we teach have remained largely the … Continue reading

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Blended Learning: The Best of Both Worlds

This 28-page US report examines today’s digital and online offerings for public school students in Colorado, and discusses the importance of implementing a shift to a blended model of learning that combines face to face, online and digital learning. The … Continue reading

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