Back in April 2012, Senior Researcher Rachel Bolstad wrote a blog post “Taking a ‘future focus’ in education” on the Shifting Thinking website. It’s an interesting post to look back on because Rachel acknowledges how hard it is to take a “future focus” in education. The thinkings around “schooling for the future” have become a relatively familiar to many of us today. However, the concepts around future-oriented education are still new and evolving (as is the nature of future-oriented work!). In this post, Rachel breaks down three ways of interpreting future-focused education. These interpretations are good, simple notions that are worth considering when you think about tomorrow’s learning.
Read the whole blog post on the Shifting Thinking website here.
Shifting Thinking is a website that aims to provide ideas, tools, and resources to help people make the shift from 20th century to 21st century ways of thinking about learning. It is a space for theory and practice to interact, for theory to inform practice, and practice to inform theory.