These resources will help you understand, imagine, reflect and take action. We encourage you to use these as a starting point and see what sparks your interest and curiosity!
This collection of video recordings features content from Project Springboard, a series of online design studio sessions for teams of educators from across the country and the world to advance their vision for what school could be.
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.
Finnish educator, researcher and policymaker Pasi Sahlberg and Hawaii’s state superintendent for education Christina Kishimoto share their experiences on leading and sustaining education systems change and innovation in their communities and offer advice for educators and education leaders. From session 3 of Project Springboard, recorded May 2021.
Michelle Reid, Superintendent of Northshore School District in Washington and 2021 Superintendent of the Year, explains her approach to leading systems change in her district and schools, with a focus on creating a more equitable system that serves the needs of all learners. From session 5 of Project Springboard, recorded August 2021.
Educator, author and researcher Tony Wagner offers his perspective and recommendations on how to engage communities around a Portrait of a Graduate and how to create alignment between key priorities, assessments, and learning experiences. From session 2 of Project Springboard, recorded May 2021.
Valerie Greenhill from Battelle for Kids and Ted Dintersmith, author and founder of What School Could Be, discuss the concept of a Portrait of a Graduate and how it can help schools set a vision and engage their community around reimagining their learning environments and experiences. Recorded April 2021 for Project Springboard, session 1.
Associate Dean Punya Mishra was interviewed by Matt Schneidman (Curator, Creator, Podcast Host) for the Fishing for Problems podcast. Schneidman publishes an ed-focused newsletter, Spanning Boundaries. The discussion was broadly framed around educational technology and the TPACK framework, but they covered quite a bit of ground beyond that as well—from whether “educational technology” even exists to the idea of teacher agency and design; from the philosophical ideas of Niel Postman to science fiction of Ted Chiang. A large part of the fun for Associate Dean Mishra was that Schneidman had clearly done his homework, as evidenced by the very first question he asked about Mishra’s “23rd Law of Parenting.”
Associate Dean Punya Mishra presented TPACK & More at REMOTE K12: The Connected Teacher Summit, a one-day virtual summit hosted by ASU, designed for K-12 teachers and those that support and enable teachers in district public, charter and private schools.
Associate Dean Punya Mishra gives a presentation for Kathmandu University, sharing the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) and Five Spaces of Design frameworks and expanding on the need for better use of creativity, technology and design to improve STEM education and beyond.
The Public Interest Technology University Network is a partnership that fosters collaboration between universities and colleges committed to building the nascent field of public interest technology and growing a new generation of civic-minded technologists. Associate Dean Punya Mishra and geochemist Dr. Ariel Anbar were invited to be part of a panel on embedding humanistic values in STEM education, specifically focused on their recently concluded STEM-Futures project.
Part of a panel organized by Monash University (Australia) with Judi Harris and Michael Phillips, moderated by Michael Henderson.
Knowing how to teach with technologies is arguably more important now than ever before. The technological, pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK) framework has become the world’s most widely recognised way of understanding what teachers need to know in order to effectively integrate digital technologies to support learning.
But is TPACK still relevant? In this seminar you will hear from one of the original developers of TPACK, Associate Dean Punya Mishra, and international scholars Professor Judi Harris and Associate Professor Michael Phillips. They will question whether TPACK is still relevant, offering new critical insights for researchers, educational leaders and educators.
Associate Dean Punya Mishra was part of a panel organized by North Carolina State University’s Friday Institute in January 2021. The topic of the panel was on surfacing K-12 trends that matter for 2021, given the challenges of the past year that educators had to navigate through. From the event introduction: “The goal of this panel discussion is to surface K-12 trends that matter for humanity. As community members, what do we need to be relentless about? As policy makers, what do we need to let go? As educators, how do we create spaces for transformation that can usher in new ways of thinking about and doing education? Join thought leaders as they analyze, predict and dream of next-generation schools.