Warning: Futures Emerging
should you
use this site?
The short answer is; any way you like.
We know that it’s impossible to deal with this question about technology’s role in education (specifically the school system) in isolation; because the education system does not operate in isolation. It is part of a whole ecosystem of moving parts, and paths, and actors that both make up the system and also operate independently of the system.
We also know that the process of imagining possible futures is :
continuous
evolving
anticipatory
never finished
This site is the first step in creating both an Education Commons, and a Community of Practice. This site was designed to start the conversation. It’s going to be an ongoing one, because we’re just getting started. Think of this site - as an invitation to enrolment.
How should you use this site? Well the short answer is . . any way you like. You can follow the foresight process through each stage, and then look at the scenarios and then the future fable OR you can jump straight to the bits that spark your interest, and then go back and check out the chain of custody in the research summaries contained in each foresight stage - or dive deeper and download the whole report.
The Foresight Process
You can view the Houston Foresight Process used in this project step by step, where you'll see that each part is downloadable in an effort to encourage you to participate not just in the imaginings of this project, but in your own educations futures imaging.
Many of the templates have been provided for you to download (either with the research from this project or blank to fill in yourself).
Scenarios
You can check out the scenarios and explore possible imagined futures across three archetypes:
- Baseline Scenario
- New Equilibrium Scenario
- Transformation Scenario
A Future Fable
Or jump straight to a hopeful story of transformation and view the Future Fable. An artefact from the year 2055, long after this project has been and gone.
As we consider the future potential role of pedagogical technology within the complex system that is education; the Future Fable helps us to imagine what it might be like to be that system.
