Upcoming events
Turn it around! flashcards for education futures
July 30, 2021
Calling young artists, thinkers and leaders! Help us to radically reimagine our approach to education, our relationship with nature and our connection to the living world during this time of climate crisis. Your visions will be shared at COP26 Glasgow and UNESCO’s Futures of Education Summit this fall!
Turn it around! flashcards for education futures
July 30, 2021
Calling young artists, thinkers and leaders! Help us to radically reimagine our approach to education, our relationship with nature and our connection to the living world during this time of climate crisis. Your visions will be shared at COP26 Glasgow and UNESCO’s Futures of Education Summit this fall!
Project Springboard: reimagining school post COVID
April 28, May 12, May 26, June 9, August 18, 2021
Join Arizona State University and an inspiring group of leaders and experts — including Christina Kishimoto, Pasi Sahlberg, Tony Wagner, Valerie Greenhill and Ted Dintersmith — for a series of 4+1 design studio sessions to help you empower your school or district to set the stage for unparalleled progress as you move from this disrupted school year into the upcoming 2021-22 school year.
Project Springboard: reimagining school post COVID
April 28, May 12, May 26, June 9, August 18, 2021
Join Arizona State University and an inspiring group of leaders and experts — including Christina Kishimoto, Pasi Sahlberg, Tony Wagner, Valerie Greenhill and Ted Dintersmith — for a series of 4+1 design studio sessions to help you empower your school or district to set the stage for unparalleled progress as you move from this disrupted school year into the upcoming 2021-22 school year.
Latest blog posts
July 28, 2021 | Iveta Silova | Learning Futures
Policy discussions about learning futures often take place without those who will be living those very futures – that is, without children and youth who are routinely left out of the future visioning exercises and policy making decisions.
June 11, 2021 | Punya Mishra | Learning Futures
What is the role of values and principles in educational leadership? What can we learn from inspirational educational leaders? How did they develop their moral/ethical compass, and more importantly, how do they bring these perspectives to the work that they do?
May 24, 2021 | Jennifer Stein | Learning Futures, OofSI
As the U.S. began to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic this spring, the calls for schools to find ways to learn from the crisis — to not simply return to the pre-pandemic “normal” — have come from many directions. Yet for schools and educational institutions that have just been through the most challenging year in recent history and are still managing the day-to-day work of running schools and educating students in an ongoing pandemic, this is no simple task.
Resource collections
We’ve compiled select resources into collections to get you started.
This collection of three science fiction short stories, published in collaboration with Slate and New America, explores how learning experiences of all kinds will be shaped by technology and other forces in the future—and the moral, ethical, and social challenges this will entail.
This collection of resources introduces the concept of learning futures, why it is important, and how we are approaching it at MLFTC.
Explore this collection of resources related to reimagining our educational paradigm to create a more sustainable future for all forms of life on Earth.