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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Innovative thinkers
Meet pioneers and practitioners reshaping the future of education.
“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?
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.
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.
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.
Invisible learning: The (r)evolution outside of the classroom
Who gets to decide what kids learn? For whose benefit is all this, really?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.