El problema con la tecnología educativa
La escolarización sigue domesticando sus tecnologías
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Essays, research, field notes, and provocations about education, technology, work, and the futures we are already building.
Who will shape education in 2036?
After EdWeek Market Brief’s K-12 Futurecast with Michelle Caffrey and Katherine Prince, John Moravec reflects on educational sovereignty, teacher judgment, and the risk of human attention becoming a premium service.
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MCP support added to GEFRI
AI assistants can now connect directly to GEFRI to work with current and historical data, compare countries and regions, and interpret results alongside other sources and contextual knowledge.
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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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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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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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KnowMapped: Visualizing and connecting knowledge with AI
Development of KnowMapped, a platform for creating, exploring, and sharing visual knowledge.
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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 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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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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Build a Positive Rebellion
Build a Positive Rebellion: Create New Education Futures by John W. Moravec explores 25 principles for questioning inherited assumptions about education and creating more human, democratic, and future-oriented approaches to learning.
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AI as anti-democratic infrastructure (and what education can do about it)
Alex Karp (2026), CEO of Palantir, recently framed AI as a force that will reduce the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat,” while increasing the power of non-college-educated, working-class men.
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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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2025 GEFRI finds wide readiness gaps and a global innovation bottleneck
The 2025 Global Education Futures Readiness Index (GEFRI) finds wide differences in how prepared countries are for education futures. It examines readiness across infrastructure, human capital, access, innovation, and governance.
Read articleHow Big Tech is silently colonizing education
Educators face a growing sense of concern about artificial intelligence. New tools enter classrooms faster than policies can adapt.
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Gamificamos el hacer trampa con IA …con un poco de ayuda de los duendes
Este artículo explora cómo gamificar el uso de la inteligencia artificial para hacer trampa y convertirlo en una oportunidad de aprendizaje. Education Futures utiliza el juego para fomentar la curiosidad, la ética y la reflexión.
Read articleWe gamified cheating with AI … with a little help from goblins
This article explores how gamifying cheating with AI can turn misconduct into an opportunity for learning. Education Futures uses play to encourage curiosity, ethics, and reflection about how technology is used.
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Is AI making organizations lazy? (The answer is “yes”)
” The answer, I argued, is not really. It is a tool, just like a calculator or book, that can enhance human capacity.
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Is AI making humans “cognitively lazy”?
AI has renewed debate about learning, memory, and creativity in an age of cognitive offloading. Cognitive offloading means using tools to do mental work we could do ourselves.
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School access and gender parity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Through the lens of GEFRI
Education is one of the most powerful levers for social progress and economic development. Yet across Sub-Saharan Africa, access to schooling and the achievement of gender parity remain elusive.
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Motivation is something we create with students, not something we do to them
Thomas Arnett’s piece “AI can personalize learning. It can’t make students care” makes a compelling case that adolescent motivation is deeply social and that AI, however powerful, can’t replace the human need for recognition and belonging.
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Question everything
In our era defined by radical uncertainty, a primary duty of education should be to develop our courage to question relentlessly. Otherwise, we will never learn.
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What the GEFRI data tells us that we didn’t expect
The Global Education Futures Readiness Index (GEFRI) provides the first comprehensive, data-driven answer. Covering 217 countries, including large economies, small island states, and nations in crisis, GEFRI benchmarks how prepared each is to meet the demands of rapidly changing educational, social, and technological landscapes.
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Teachers at the crossroads
We ask teachers to prepare students for an unpredictable, AI-infused, climate-volatile world. Yet we treat those same educators as if their job is to execute instructions, not invent solutions.
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Is the end nigh for white collar workers?
It’s almost amusing (if it weren’t so tragic) how each new wave of AI panic gets dressed up as breaking news. “AI could kill millions of jobs,” the experts say, as if this were a revelation.
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Activism as learning: When students teach the system a lesson
Activism can be one of learning’s most authentic expressions. It explores how organizing, civic participation, and speaking truth to power develop knowledge and agency.
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Break the rules that break us
In classrooms built for quiet, success often means staying inside the lines, even as the world outside demands we redraw them. Today’s schools reward silent conformity over courageous inquiry, sending an implicit message to learners: don’t ask too much, don’t reach too far.
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The missing planet
A school day begins with a bell. Students move from worksheets to whiteboards while forests burn and rivers shrink outside.
Read articleGlobal Education Futures Readiness Index (GEFRI)
The Global Education Futures Readiness Index (GEFRI) measures how prepared countries are to shape and respond to changing education futures. It combines global benchmarking with data visualization across key readiness dimensions.
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How did we get from “schools kill creativity” to “AI kills critical thinking in schools?”
When Sir Ken Robinson delivered his now-iconic TED Talk in 2006, proclaiming that “schools kill creativity,” he struck a chord that continues to reverberate through education systems worldwide. Robinson’s argument that our schools systematically squash imagination in favor of conformity and compliance sparked a movement for more creative, learner-centered approaches.
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Learning together, teaching together
In most schools today, students are grouped strictly by age, progressing year by year in parallel cohorts. While this structure simplifies scheduling and curriculum delivery, it also narrows the social and cognitive range of experiences available to learners.
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Learning at the edge of networks
In early 2020, as COVID-19 swept across the globe, the world was confronted with a challenge that no single expert, institution, or government could tackle alone. The response to the crisis demanded a convergence of diverse insights, rapid experimentation, and global collaboration to develop new knowledge.
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Invisible learning is an organic process: Breathing, taking root, and becoming one’s self
Most learning unfolds as an organic process: quiet, continual, and often unseen. Like breath or the silent growth of roots, it extends beneath the surface of formal schooling, leaving little trace on a transcript.
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Quantum computing and the future of education
Quantum computing will disrupt education more profoundly than AI. Explore its potential, risks, and what policymakers must do to guide it responsibly.
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No more boxes: Learning in ecosystems
Learning does not fit neatly into classrooms, schedules, and institutional categories. Meaningful learning is exploratory, connected, and shaped by life beyond school.
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Learning at the intersection of agency and self-efficacy
At the heart of meaningful education is a powerful idea: learners thrive when they are trusted to shape their learning and believe they are capable of success. This fusion of agency (being afforded real choices) and self-efficacy (believing in one’s ability to act on those choices) transforms education from routine compliance into purposeful growth.
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Kids are people, too
When students are trusted to co-create the structures and rhythms of school life, the outcomes are measurable and lasting.
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In the absence of hope, we must build communities of trust
In many places, unfortunately including my home country of the United States, learning is no longer nurtured. It is managed.
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1.0 schools cannot teach 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 … kids
In one classroom, a student copies notes about a centuries-old war. Outside that school, they build game mods, edit videos for social media, and debate politics in global online forums.
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Does the modern university end at AI?
AI Trends in Higher Education,” hosted by Emerald Publishing and the Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (HETL), March 26,.
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Educating for a shared planet
We are living through overlapping global crises: climate breakdown, mass displacement, ecological collapse, rising authoritarianism, and digital fragmentation. These forces are not distant trends; they shape everyday life.
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Building futures we cannot yet imagine
Education is teaching yesterday to children who will live in tomorrow. While medicine rewrites genomes and technology engineers intelligence, schools remain firmly anchored to the past.
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Toward creative futures, beyond standardization
Standardization prioritizes predictability over possibility, compliance over creativity, and repetition over risk-taking. When education reduces students to manufactured products, it ignores their unique potential to seek out their own passions and solve problems creatively.
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Genuine equity demands creative schools
Education systems that narrowly define success solely in terms of conformity and compliance inherently perpetuate inequity. This restrictive approach marginalizes students whose strengths lie in innovation, originality, or unique thinking, overlooking learners who approach problems differently or express themselves in unconventional ways.
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The future belongs to nerds, geeks, makers, dreamers, and knowmads
The future belongs to curious, passionate individuals unafraid to take intellectual risks, not to those who are passively obedient and skilled at following instructions. Society rewards creativity, innovation, and a willingness to embrace uncertainty, not compliance.
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Don’t value what we measure; measure what we value
Our mainstream education systems are caught in a damaging obsession with measurement, yet they consistently measure the wrong things. Schools meticulously track test scores, attendance, and graduation rates, acting as if these numbers genuinely define learning.
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We cannot manage knowledge
Education often mistakes knowledge for information, reducing learning to the storage and recall of facts. Students are tested on their ability to recall information, not on their depth of understanding.
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La realidad no es opcional: Defender la educación de la desinformación, el posmodernismo utilizado como arma y la erosión de la verdad
Este artículo sostiene que la realidad no es opcional en la educación ni en la vida pública. Examina cómo se descartan los hechos por conveniencia política y por qué debemos defender instituciones democráticas basadas en evidencia.
Read articleReality is not optional: Defending education from disinformation, weaponized postmodernism, and the erosion of truth
Recent developments illustrate how easily facts can be dismissed when they become politically inconvenient. Donald Trump’s return to the presidency of the United States signals a shift from mere pressure tactics to the outright dismantling of government agencies focused on public health, equity, climate monitoring, and air traffic control oversight, among other critical areas.
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Degrees are obsolete by design … when knowledge has the shelf life of a banana
In a world defined by rapid advances in science, technology, and the very structure of work, a university degree can become obsolete faster than a banana browns on your kitchen counter. The old paradigm of “earn your diploma, land a career, follow a predictable path” no longer makes sense in what many call an Age of Disruption (see, for example, World Economic Forum, 2023).
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Authentic learning comes from freedom, not from being pushed into a predetermined path
For too long, education has been structured around control. Students are placed on predetermined paths, told what to learn, when to learn it, and how their success will be measured.
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Schools must be havens of uncommon safety and extraordinary respect
Education is failing its most fundamental test: preparing people to be human in a complex, interconnected world. Schools claim to shape the leaders, innovators, and citizens of tomorrow, yet they still operate on outdated models that prioritize compliance over curiosity, standardization over self-awareness, and competition over collaboration.
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The future of digital learning communities: Beyond algorithms
The modern internet is aging, and the cracks are showing. For nearly three decades, we have built online spaces rooted in structures that, while groundbreaking at the time, now struggle to serve the ways we live, work, and learn today.
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Bad use of technology is a symptom, not the problem
This article argues that failures involving educational technology are symptoms of deeper problems in how learning is designed. It calls for using technology to transform learning rather than simply reproducing old practices.
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Pre-active higher education leadership for a world in disruption
Last week, I had the privilege of presenting the closing keynote at the International Meeting on Educational Innovation and STEM Teaching hosted by Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I shared my perspectives on the urgent need to rebuild higher education from the ground up and on the importance of pre active leadership.
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Manifesto 25
Manifesto 25 is a bold call to reimagine education as a collective act of resistance and renewal. It offers principles for reclaiming learning as a human, democratic, and future-oriented practice.
Read articleManifesto 25: A blueprint for reclaiming education
January 1, 2025 marks the official release of Manifesto 25, a visionary document calling for urgent action to transform global education systems. The manifesto challenges the status quo, asserting that education as we know it is failing to prepare learners for the complexity and uncertainty of our rapidly changing world.
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Deception by design: Education’s role in countering disinformation
This article examines how misinformation is designed to spread and why education must respond. It argues for learning approaches that build critical judgment, media literacy, and democratic resilience.
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A comparative analysis of AI in education policy frameworks and initiatives
The integration of artificial intelligence into educational settings is rapidly transforming the landscape of teaching and learning. As AI becomes more common in schools, strong policies are needed to use it effectively and ethically.
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Reclamando la educación para instituciones democráticas inclusivas
Esta mañana, la Real Academia Sueca de Ciencias otorgó a Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson y James A. Robinson el Premio Nobel de Ciencias Económicas 2024.
Read articleReclaiming education for inclusive, democratic institutions
This morning, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
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AI and open educational resources
David Wiley’s recent post at Improving Learning got me thinking about the rise of “generative OER” for content creation and customization and how AI is reshaping educational content. He also touches on the idea of “open prompts” and “open weights” as emerging forms of OER, enabling users to adapt content for specific needs.
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Who are knowmads?
Over 20 years ago, I crafted the knowmad concept while a PhD student, investigating the future of work at the University of Minnesota. A few years later, I wrote a blog post with a general definition … and then things took off, catching me off guard.
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Improved training for climate finance readiness
Development of modular training manuals to strengthen project proposal development for climate adaptation.
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Coach Digital: Nepal
Coach Digital Nepal is a digital coaching platform designed to monitor and strengthen teacher development. It supports foundational teaching skills with tools suited to low-connectivity environments.
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Teachers as knowmads in the era of AI
In recent talks in Argentina, Spain, and Colombia, I delved into the competencies essential for “knowmads” in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). This transformative era requires a shift in how educators approach teaching and learning, and it’s critical to understand what this means for teachers today.
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Did AI replace the need for STEM learning?
This article examines how artificial intelligence is changing the skills and competencies people need. It distinguishes capabilities likely to be affected by generative AI from those that remain essential for future learning and work.
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Seconds beyond the inflection point
This article examines how generative AI and other technologies may automate large portions of people’s work. It considers what this inflection point means for education, skills, and human agency.
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Embracing a tomorrow beyond automation
Over the past decades, I’ve explored the evolving landscape of learning and work in the 21st century. The imminent arrival of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a pivotal moment in this journey, marking a transition from the theoretical to the very real and imminent.
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Schools are still struggling with the question: Is it okay for students to use technologies?
After decades of wondering if calculators, phones, or Wikipedia have a place in schools, the next target is obviously generative AI.
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Demonstrating AI-powered student feedback for low-resource environments
Virtual Alchemy explores how AI-powered formative feedback can expand learning access where teachers are difficult to reach. The project integrates an AI bot with Moodle for remote, resource-constrained, and crisis-affected settings.
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Charting the uncharted: Navigating the intersection of disruptive tech and education
We find ourselves in an era where the languages of technology—bytes, pixels, and algorithms—have become as fundamental as the ABCs we learned in school. But are our educational systems keeping up?
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Shifting toward a knowmadic public policy: An agile proposal
Knowmads are not confined by the classic structures of a fixed workplace or set of tools. They are agile, adaptable, and adept at navigating the complexities of the modern world.
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Innovating physical & virtual learning spaces: Fostering the growth of modern knowmadic learners
In this technological era, we cannot shy away from speaking about knowmadic people, not just learners, but workers, community members and global citizens alike. A knowmad is someone who is flexible, fluent in the technology of their time, and unafraid to take risks.
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The power and potential of EdTech: Using AI as a study tool … and maybe more
As reported in The Verge, Quizlet, came up with AI features to assist students using their tools. The notion sounds compelling, right?
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Embracing the AI storm in learning
Manifesto 15, conceptualized in 2015, is a forward-thinking document outlining a vision for the future of education. It proposes a shift from traditional, rigid, and standardized educational models to flexible, learner-centered, and experience-driven paradigms that embrace change, encourage lifelong learning, and foster creativity.
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Coach Digital: Sierra Leone
Coach Digital Sierra Leone delivers offline-first coaching tools that help teachers strengthen foundational teaching skills. The initiative supports professional learning in one of the world’s least connected environments.
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Disruptive technologies and global transformations
The past year was crucially important for the world to work on building better futures for education as societies found ways to better cope with COVID-19 and schools gradually reopened. At the same time, the world experienced tremendous setbacks, such as global disruptions caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the climate catastrophe in Pakistan, with floods that destroyed or damaged nearly 27,000 schools.
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Mapping disruptive technologies and the future of education in the Prague Region
This project applies strategic foresight to guide educational transformation in Prague. It considers how digital and disruptive technologies can inform education policy and practice.
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Building a global education policy academy
This project develops a modular, gamified platform for education policy learning. It is designed to strengthen professional learning and policy capacity across education systems.
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Engaging youth to solve global grand challenges
This project develops a scalable, story-based learning platform to engage young people with global grand challenges. It connects experiential learning with digital tools and opportunities for meaningful action.
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International education in the era of COVID-19
Note: This article originally appeared in Sociální Pedagogika | Social Education, 8(1), 38-42.
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Digital landscape review and prototyping of technologies for teacher coaching
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.
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“No future” if we do not make serious efforts to invest in and modernize education
Czech media maverick Bohumil “Bob” Kartous asks, can steam engines carry us into the virtual world?
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Ihanainen’s affordances of pedagogy
Pekka Ihanainen, a Finnish teacher educator, is one of the most abstract, conceptual thinkers I have ever known. He is a crafter of ideas.
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John Moravec: Evolving our understanding of education and helping humans to be more ‘human’
Oli Anderson interviewed Education Futures‘ John Moravec for Design Decode, a project exploring design for improving the human experience.
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New book: Emerging education futures
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.
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What do we know about digital citizenship in Mexico?
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.
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Understanding digital citizenship in Mexico
This project examines digital citizenship in Mexico through national dialogue and participatory research. It brings together perspectives from students, teachers, parents, and policymakers.
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Building a Leapfrog University
In 2006, the University of Minnesota engaged in a strategic repositioning process to transform it into one of the top universities in the world. To many, it seemed like a lot of promises, but not much substance.
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Plan Ceibal 2020: Future scenarios for technology and education
I am pleased to have collaborated with Matías Mateu and Cristóbal Cobo on the publication of research regarding the future of Uruguay’s national technological and innovation policy initiative, Plan Ceibal. As this paper is directly related to Matías‘ master’s thesis, Cristóbal and I took on largely advisory roles to support his work.
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Designing campus futures
A few months ago, I received an invitation for a dream gig. Simon Fraser University at Burnaby, British Columbia is designing a master plan to guide the institution for the next 50 years, and they needed an education futurist to provide some thought leadership.
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Cheating the death of imagination: Teaching the unknowable
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.
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John Moravec embarks on global tour to redesign education
Education Futures founder Dr. John Moravec has embarked on a global tour to redesign mainstream education systems.
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Invisible learning: The (r)evolution outside of the classroom
Who gets to decide what kids learn? For whose benefit is all this, really?
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Educational innovation in Puebla
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.
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The future of digital technologies in Uruguayan primary education
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.
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Educational innovation in Puebla
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.
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John Moravec at the World Bank Youth Summit: Knowmadic futures for youth
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.
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Why Pokémon Go and Minecraft in the classroom are very bad ideas
It’s “back to school” season in the United States and Europe, and the social media universe is ablaze with ideas on how to harness the Pokémon Go craze in the classroom.
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A theory for invisible learning
This second article in a three-part series develops a theory of invisible learning. It examines how informal, non-formal, and serendipitous experiences shape what people know.
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Approaches for enabling invisible learning
This final article in a three-part series presents approaches for enabling invisible learning. It highlights participation, play, exploration, and learner self-determination.
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The need for invisible learning
Note: This is the first article in a three-part series on a new theory for invisible learning.
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Designing the future of research libraries and special libraries in Knowmad Society
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.
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Creative classrooms in Patagonia
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.
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Manifesto 15: Evolving learning
Like many of us, I did some reflecting over the New Year. It seemed it was time to re-center, and get back to basics.
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Manifesto 15
A global call to rethink the purpose, design, and impact of education in the 21st.
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Knowmads on Umbrales
Last week, the Peruvian television program “Umbrales” (TV Perú) broadcasted a program on knowmads in Peru and Latin America. Dr.
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Rise of the Knowmads: John Moravec at TEDxUMN
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.
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Report from the European Democratic Education Community 2013 Conference
This report reflects on the 2013 European Democratic Education Community conference. It considers how democratic education supports learner agency, participation, and new approaches to schooling.
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The biggest problem in mainstream education is that it does precisely what it is designed to do
In many the conversations about design thinking in schools, we tend to assume that mainstream education is poorly designed. What if it wasn’t?
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Knowmad Society released
I am very pleased to share that the print edition of Knowmad Society is released, and it is beautiful!
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Defining the “Knowmads” of work and education in the 21st Century
Read this special issue of On the Horizon for free until 20 June 2013.
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Matt Novak takes us on a Paleofuture look into our hopes and fears
Matt Novak uses a paleofuture perspective to examine how earlier generations imagined tomorrow. The conversation reveals what those visions say about our hopes, fears, and assumptions about the future.
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The university of the future: Marching toward obsolescence?
A couple weeks ago, Carlos Scolari interviewed me for a project on pedagogical innovation and disruptive practices in higher education at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). The aim of the project is to produce a document on the “university of the future,” including diagnosis, trends, and proposals for moving forward.
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Six things I learned at the Pioneers Festival
Last week, I attended the two-day Pioneers Festival in Vienna. Housed in the Hofburg imperial palace (an “impossible to book” venue), the event was a mixture between discussions, speeches and interactive workshops with topics concerning entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology.
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Christel Hartkamp: “Children are like slaves of the modern age”
Editor’s note: This provocative commentary originally appeared in Heb jij iets geleerd vandaag? – Een Sudbury school perspectief op leren, a blog by Sudbury schools in the Netherlands.
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The Singularity and schools: An interview with Vernor Vinge
In this interview, John Moravec speaks with science fiction author and mathematician Vernor Vinge about the technological singularity. They consider how accelerating technological change could affect schools and society.
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Teacher 3.0: Sharing, creating, and connecting knowledge
This article explores what Teacher 3.0 might look like in a networked learning environment. It focuses on sharing, creating, and connecting knowledge beyond traditional classroom roles.
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Nine key characteristics of knowmads in Society 3.0
A knowmad is what I have previously termed a nomadic knowledge and innovation worker – that is, a creative, imaginative, and innovative person who can work with almost anybody, anytime, and anywhere. Moreover, knowmads are valued for the personal knowledge that they possess, and this knowledge gives them a competitive advantage.
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Knowmads in Society 3.0
In the pre-industrial age, nomads were people that moved with their livelihood (usually animal herding) instead of settling at a single location.
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