The scrollytale video accompanies this Masters Foresight Research Project (Fall 2023) titled: “The future potential role of pedagogical technology within the Australian secondary school learning environment” . This is a fable from the future, a scrollytale from the year 2055 - long after my project has been and gone.

A strategic tension is always present between the stability of continuity, and the potential for change. In this project I've explored the implications (and future imaginings) from the perspectives of:

• the teachers

• the students

• the policymakers and educational advisors

• education technology industry

  
  

Now we’re going to imagine what it’s like to be the education system itself.
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The Little Education System that could . . is a hopeful story of transformation. It also seeks to play with this idea we’ve explored in the project - about experiencing different ways of knowing. It also encourages you to take the posture of a child (given that is what we’re all working toward), to take a beginners mind . . . to be playful as children are . . and to engage in hopeful imagining.
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When we talk about “systems” or “systems design” or “systems change”, we often talk about systems in the abstract. But what if . . systems had feelings too? What if by understanding and imagining what it might be like to be the system, we might reimagine our posture, even just a little?
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I’ve written this image of the future of the education system, as a fable . . . enabling us to empathise with the system, in an attempt to make this abstract idea . . humanly accessible. The story of the Little Education System that could, links both a personal and a systems narrative within an overarching meta-narrative. It seeks to bridge the gap between the “IT” that is “system”, and the deeply human, complex and emotional experience of change. And in the story of this abstract hero adventure, the hope is that we might just see a little of ourselves here too.