Learning Futures events
Past events

Future of Education Panel
February 14, 2022
How Can Research Contribute to Shaping Global Learning Futures? A roundtable discussion of the UNESCO report “Reimagining our Futures Together”. Organized by MLFTC Office of Global Engagement and MLFTC Office of Scholarship & Innovation.

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!

How will we learn in the future?
April 14, 2021
New America is hosting a webinar event with all three science fiction short story authors from the 2021 Learning Futures series by Future Tense Fiction. This series is supported by the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University, as part of its work on Learning Futures and Principled Innovation.

Project Springboard: reimagining school post COVID
April 28, 2021
May 12, 2021
May 26, 2021
June 9, 2021
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.

Join us on Thursday, March 4 for an online discussion of the short story, “The Trolley Solution” by Shiv Ramdas. This story is the third in a series for Future Tense Fiction presented by Slate and Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, as part of its Learning Futures and Principled Innovation work.

Future Tense Fiction: online discussion of “The Void”
March 4, 2021
Join us on Thursday, March 4 for an online discussion of the short story, “The Void” by Leigh Alexander. This story is the second in a series for Future Tense Fiction presented by Slate and Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, as part of its Learning Futures and Principled Innovation work.

Future Tense Fiction: online discussion of “Speaker”
February 4, 2021
Join us for an online discussion with Simon Brown, the author of the short story “Speaker” — published through Future Tense Fiction as part of a series on Learning Futures — and Dr. Iveta Silova, professor and director of the Center for the Advanced Studies in Global Education at ASU.