Future Learning Design

NEW EPISODE! This is a MUST LISTEN for anyone who is serious about the way #education should be responding the various crises that we are facing as a species! Zachary Stein and Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, EdD are two of the most important voices calling for fundamental transformations in education. With Tim Logan they take both philosophical and neuroscientific perspectives on: 🌱 Education’s responsibility as a cause of the youth mental health crisis 🌱 The need to focus on transcendent thinking and #humandevelopment rather than learning outcomes in our schooling systems 🌱 The importance of #intergenerational collaboration and meaningful work 🌱 The impact of the digital, social media, advertising and AI 🌱 Critical shifts in the way that we do assessment Zak and Mary Helen originally met at Harvard Graduate School of Education on the Mind, Brain and Education programme with the legendary Kurt Fischer. It is a privilege to be able to reunite them here! 🎧🎧🎧 Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/eZy_bijU University of Southern California Candle USC Rebecca Gotlieb, Ph.D. Rodrigo Riveros Miranda Daniel Schmachtenberger Theo Dawson Sages & Seekers Elly Katz

Here's an invitation to ask some big questions about the disciplines that we artificially divide up our young humans' educational lives into. Maybe they are not all as straightforward as the curriculum documents and textbooks would have us believe! Rather, imagine a curriculum that was based on these amazing thinkers... 💡 Keith Davids taking an ecological approach to #sports and movement. 💡 Kevin R. Belin connecting with our worlds differently through #language learning. 💡 Roman Krznaric invoking us to learn *from* #history not just learn history. 💡 Dr Jo Boaler and Dor Abrahamson living #maths differently, through our bodies and real-world experiences. 💡 Dr. Gholdy M. learning #literacy as a way to read our worlds and connect to our identities, skill, intellect, criticality and joy. 💡 Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann on all the regenerative #economics that no-one is teaching you. 💡 Eric Dozier on #music as the call and response towards empathy and mutual understanding. 💡 Subhadra Das on the rotten foundations of #science that we need to dig up! If you know a teacher of any of these subjects, share this link with them and they can hear from these brilliant people... https://lnkd.in/eQuAUHQj Future Learning Design

NEW EPISODE! #Science tells us 'what works' doesn't it... and how it works? It's our go-to methodology for determining what's real & true, and cutting through all of the bias and ideology of humans... Right? 🤔 As our fantastic guest this week Subhadra Das writes, 'what's not to love about science'?! Well, maybe quite a lot. This week Subhadra chats with Tim Logan about how we might appreciate all of the great things about science, but separate them from some very bad ideas that came along with them from science's origins, like: 👾 Eugenics 👾 Control 👾 Measurement obsession 👾 Scientific racism 👾 Imperialism 👾 Violence 👾 Instrumentalisation ... Check out the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/e6PNwa4v

NEW EPISODE! The question is everywhere... what does #genAI really change? Nothing? Everything? More likely, some messy in-between where we humans have always learned with and through our technologies. And what are the implications for us as educators? This week Tim had the pleasure to sit down with Charles Fadel of the Center for Curriculum Redesign to talk about his long career in artificial intelligence and education, and in particular is latest book 'Education for the Age of AI'. 👩🦰 Does AI help us become more human... more humane? 🔄 Or do we risk becoming recursively more computational (as the tool influences how we see the world through it)! 🤷♂️ What happens when we really can't tell the difference between machine products and human creations? ⚡ What is the energy cost? Is it worth it? Check out the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/e2QbtU4b

NEW EPISODE! What does it look like when you start practicing a more #humane education? This is what the brilliant Zoe Weil and her team at Institute for Humane Education have been doing for the last 30years! Check out Zoe and her brilliant colleague Julie Meltzer on the latest episode here: https://lnkd.in/ernrg5kz

NEW EPISODE! What about if "exploring unanswerable questions in good company" (Remen) was what education was all about?! What would the definition of 'success' look like then? The wonderful Dr Helen Street returns to the podcast this week to talk with Tim Logan about her fabulous new book, 'The Impossible Question of Living Well: How do we hold on to what matters, while also knowing how to let go?' Helen's book continues her lifelong commitment to nurturing people's and communities' well-being, but through personal stories about change, loss, success, risk, and impermanence that hold the complexity of context, she is very definitely practicing what she encourages us all to, take #context much, much more seriously! Check out the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/eQA_DgHh

NEW EPISODE! This one's for ALL language teachers everywhere! How aware are we of how much our language helps us know our worlds, and connect with our place and culture in it? And perhaps the opposite is also true, does it also disconnect and separate in the way some languages emphasise 'things' more than events or relationships? And what does this all mean for our English-dominated (noun-dominated) internet and LLMs that are increasingly becoming source material for our young people's interactions with the world. This week's podcast is an incredible journey though the Navajo Nation landscape and culture through Diné Bizaad, Navajo language, in the amazing hands of Kevin R. Belin. This one blew Tim's mind with the connection to specific place and people that even just conjugating verbs in a particular way affords! As we lose indigenous languages around the world, these are not words that we are losing, but life-worlds. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/ejYQu3xa And share it with any language teacher you know! They are doing vital work!

NEW EPISODE! Before we all jump on the #systemsthinking band-wagon as the latest 'essential' competency that all young people need to have, let's ask few more questions! How do systems thinkers think about operating complex environments, for example? Dave Snowden and his fantastic team at The Cynefin Centre have been urging these questions for a long time and demonstrating why an #anthrocomplexity approach to education is very useful (alongside systems approaches)! ❓ How can complexity science approaches be useful when education is such a highly constrained environment obsessed with predicatable outputs? ❓ Why might Dave's approach to 'naturalising sense-making' be useful to education policy-makers? ❓ Why is education full of bad strategy? ❓ Why do humans hallucinate and AIs bullshit? And why knowing the difference is crucial! Check out the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/exgzvMex

NEW EPISODE! So many of the concepts we build education around - like standards, outcomes, competencies - are fixed and rigid boxes, unmoving and lifeless, that we attempt to squeeze young people into! The amazing Dr. Gholdy Muhammad has been supporting teachers, parents and young people everywhere to bring movement, life and #joy back into the #pursuits of learning - identity, intellect, skills, criticality and joy. This week Gholdy sits down with Tim to chat about her fantastic books 'Cultivating Genius' and 'Unearthing Joy' and, on the way, the talk about Stevie Wonder and the secret life of plants, Pharrell, love, hate, toothpaste, loon birds and more! Thank you Gholdy for such a fun and joyful conversation! 🎧 Check out the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/eZ9SZZ7w

NEW EPISODE! So many of the concepts we build education around - like standards, outcomes, competencies - are fixed and rigid boxes, unmoving and lifeless, that we attempt to squeeze young people into! The amazing Dr. Gholdy Muhammad has been supporting teachers, parents and young people everywhere to bring movement, life and #joy back into the #pursuits of learning - identity, intellect, skills, criticality and joy. This week Gholdy sits down with Tim to chat about her fantastic books 'Cultivating Genius' and 'Unearthing Joy' and, on the way, the talk about Stevie Wonder and the secret life of plants, Pharrell, love, hate, toothpaste, loon birds and more! Thank you Gholdy for such a fun and joyful conversation! 🎧 Check out the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/eZ9SZZ7w