From Consult Minnesota’s press release: John Moravec predicts a revolution, and is calling on Minnesota technology consultants to help make it happen. During his presentation to Consult Minnesota Thursday, Aug. 19 at 6 p.m. in the Walnut Room of Axel’s Char House at the Roseville Radisson Hotel, Moravec, a faculty member in Innovation Studies and [...]

John Moravec at TEDxLaguna

Photo by Cristóbal Cobo On Monday, I participated in TEDxLaguna, the second TEDx event ever held in Mexico. I called for “leapfrogging toward Knowmad Society” (video coming soon). Also, Cristóbal Cobo shared an overview and invitation to join our Invisible Learning collaboration. I believe the event was a great success, and I am pleased to [...]

Note: Education Futures is on a reduced publication schedule for the summer, and will return with its regular schedule in mid-August. Slides from Saturday’s talk at World Future Society‘s World Future 2009 conference in Chicago: Destination Imagination is the world’s largest creative problem solving program for kindergarten through college-aged learners. DI participants develop life skills [...]

Note: This article is a part of the Designing Education 3.0 series at Education Futures. The debate continues: What is the role of a teacher? The sage on the stage or a guide on the side? In a recent Tegenlicht episode, Frank Furedi argued for a return to “classical,” power-based, download-style (banking) pedagogies. I countered [...]

Note: This article is a part of the Designing Education 3.0 series at Education Futures. An an era driven by globalized relationships, innovative social technologies, and fueled by accelerating change, how should we reinvent schools? Education 3.0 schools produce knowledge-producing students, not automatons that recite facts that may never be applied usefully. Education 3.0 substitutes [...]

Are the old basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic relevant in the 21st century? Or, is it time for an upgrade? Arthur Harkins and I assembled a list of New Basics for education that can help us leapfrog to an education paradigm that is both innovative and relevant for the 21st century and beyond. These [...]

The March 13 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education has a list of 13 reasons why colleges are hurting in the current economic downturn. They write that colleges managed their investments poorly, failed to show leadership in building quality institutions, ignored their customers’ needs, failed to get the support of state legislatures, and dodged [...]

I received feedback from several readers that Arthur Harkins’ reasoning for why we need to Leapfrog might seem a bit too Machiavellian — “us versus them.” I therefore hope everybody will enjoy the contrast of perspective in this next video. In early November, we had an opportunity to interview Jutta Treviranus, director of the Adaptive [...]

Earlier this month, I interviewed Arthur Harkins on our approach to innovating in human capital development (Leapfrog!). Specifically, I asked: What is Leapfrog? What are some examples of leapfrogging? What are the Leapfrog Institutes? What are the global implications for Leapfrog? Watch his responses in this video: A little background: Leapfroggingmeans to jump over obstacles [...]