Institute For The Future

IFTF Hosts Future of Learning Workshop with SJUSD

Learning worldwide is entering a period of creative disruption. Yet an array of exciting new possibilities is also beginning to take shape. Over the next decades, we will be invited to reimagine what learning could be. Already, unconstrained by legacy assumptions and costs, new educational “superstructs”—alternative platforms and ventures—are springing up virtually every day. Some superstructs complement existing structures, but many are draining value out of them, thus speeding up their demise.

San Jose Unified School District (SJUSD) Superintendent Dr. Vincent Matthews summarizes this challenge with the words of his son:

“When I leave school, I go back to the future.”

On September 17–19, IFTF partnered with SJUSD, Cross & Joftus, and Enterprise Development Group, to explore the frontiers of the new learning ecology and the transition from traditional educational institutions to more distributed learning flows.

Part of SJUSD's Redesign 2.0 initiative, the three-day workshop at our new Gallery of the Future gathered experts on innovative learning systems—from Institute for Applied Neuroscience neuroscientists to JoyFoodly's Kitchen Learning Lab educators—to discuss disruptive shifts facing the future of education. The group created an actionable Innovation Blueprint that will provide a coherent guide for developing proposals on what future learning environments could look like.

Following our Foresight-Insight-Action process, the event will help SJUSD Redesign 2.0's team of 27 elementary-, middle-, and high-school teachers and school administrators build on IFTF's foresight and insight to take action that will bring the district's programs in line with transformative shifts in learning.

SJUSD Reimagines Learning

IFTF's Future of Learning Research

Interested in what the Future of Learning could look like? Find out what Extreme Learners can teach us and take a look at our map, From Educational Institutions to Learning Flows.

More Information

• For more information on IFTF’s Future of Learning program, contact Sara Skvirsky at [email protected].
• To view IFTF's education- and learning-related projects, check out a selection of our publicly-available research.
• For new business inquiries, please contact Sean Ness at [email protected].