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.
Read articleBuilding new education futures in an era of accelerating disruption.
Founded by Dr. John W. Moravec, Education Futures is an independent research and advisory practice. We study how education must transform as technology, work, and public life change, and we collaborate with institutions at the forefront of these shifts to shape more capable, humane, and future-ready systems.
Recent highlights
Selected essays, research, and field notes.
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 It examines why schools reproduce outdated pedagogies even when new technologies make other possibilities visible.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.
Read articleEducation is shaped by the systems around it.
Questions of learning are also questions of power: who decides what counts as knowledge, how institutions distribute opportunity, and whether people can act on what they learn.
Our work follows questions that challenge our future: artificial intelligence, learner agency, technological sovereignty, knowmadic learning, public policy, and institutional transformation. We connect research and strategic foresight to decisions that can be tested in practice.
Change begins with articulating our principles.
Our futures are made through decisions about power, knowledge, and whose interests institutions serve. If education is to become more than preparation for an unjust world, it must help people build alternatives to realize our best futures.
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.04KnowMappedHow ideas travel: make complex knowledge visible, connected, and open to exploration, dialogue, and action.
Latest from Education Futures
New publications, research notes, and commentary.
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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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.
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Education Futures works with governments, universities, schools, international organizations, and civic partners when they need to understand a changing context, explore new disctions, and develop preactive responses.
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