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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Essays, research, field notes, and provocations about education, technology, work, and the futures we are already building.
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 It examines why schools reproduce outdated pedagogies even when new technologies make other possibilities visible.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
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.
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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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