Educational Change by Design: Creating a school of the future
How do we design a school for the future? This recent article seeks to capture (in the form of a case study) our recent experience in designing such a school. T...
Category: Principled Innovation
Learning futures: Designing the horizon
I was recently invited (along with Sean Leahy and Jodie Donner) to present at the Winter Games, Digital Immersive Experience organized by ShapingEDU at Arizona ...
China, Australia, Nepal & Australia: A zoom tour of talks
Over the past couple of months I have been asked to give presentations at a variety of different conferences or organizations spread across the world. They are ...
Designing the futures of STEM education
“What knowledge is of most worth?” is a question asked over a 100 years ago by the English philosopher, Herbert Spencer. His unequivocal answer was—science. Thi...
Teenagers, retirement and reflections on the new abnormal
The economist and thinker Andrew Scott once said something that blew me away. He said that: The 20th century created the idea of teenagers and retirement....
A conversation with S. Giridhar, COO Azim Premji University: A Silver Lining side conversation
S. Giridhar (Giri), Chief Operating Officer of Azim Premji University (APU) and I had a chance to chat for a Silver Lining for Learning side conversation. Giri ...
Us in Flux: A conversation with Sarah Pinsker
The Center for Science and the Imagination at ASU has a new series called Us in Flux. Every two weeks they publish a (super-short) short story that explores ...
From being to becoming: Keynote by Dr. Shawn Loescher
It is rarely that I hear a talk that blows me away. We have all seen the TED talks, and their mutant offspring. The over-hyped music and catchy taglines; the sp...
Measuring what matters: A convening
All of us involved in social design (and I include education in among those as well) ask ourselves, or are asked this question: How do we measure the impact of ...
Facilitating collaborative design: New publication
Design facilitators play an important role in the open-ended collaborative design process. This becomes even more important as design based approaches expand to...