Signposts
What are the signals of our changing times — and the patterns that can help us change our schools and systems?
Human Skills In the Age of AI
In the final weeks of 2022, with little fanfare, OpenAI released a new product called ChatGPT. Within a week, more than one million users had signed up. And in a sense, humanity has been struggling to catch up ever since.
Public Purpose Utilities for the Future of Learning
We are in a huge design moment. But trying to launch new things within an old system can be limiting and has the distinct likelihood of being futile. In order to do right by our young people, we need to think beyond the old constraints.
Students Are Curating Their Own Curriculum at this Idaho School
In this episode of our Brief But Spectacular video series, produced in partnership with PBS, we learn about One Stone, an innovative school in Idaho that puts the students in charge of their own learning.
Horizon Three Learning
Amidst the dizzying changes of our modern world, how should our schools be changing, too?
And what, ultimately, will today’s young people need to be inspired and prepared to flourish in the Age of AI — as individuals, in their careers, and throughout our shared civic life?
We Have to Really Rethink the Purpose of Education
In this provocative podcast, the New York Times’ Ezra Klein and the Brookings Institution’s Rebecca Winthrop wonder together about the ways our modern education system should be changing — and how, if at all, we can better prepare today’s young people for tomorrow’s unpredictable future.
Five Principles for Prosocial AI
AI companionship is no longer a fringe behavior. It’s becoming a central part of how this generation thinks of and navigates relationships. In response, the Rithm Project’s Michelle Culver set out to name what differentiates the tech that supports healthy connection from that which imperils it.
Pay Attention to What You Pay Attention To
In this richly visual graphic article, artist Jane Shore wonders about what might happen if the students, and not the school, were the ones to decide what should get the lion’s share of our attention.
A Learner-Centered Ecosystem
It’s time for a shift from the school-centered education system — where efficiency, standardization, compliance, ranking, sorting, and task completion are top priorities — to a learner-centered paradigm, where we focus on supporting each learner to know who they are, thrive in community, and actively engage in the world as their best selves.
AI can personalize learning. It can’t make students care.
What if the missing ingredient in student achievement isn’t better curriculum, tech, or teachers, but better motivation? And what if the one thing AI can’t do is the one thing students need most?
Building the
Future of Learning
If we are to prepare students for the complexity of the future, then it’s time for a big change. To get there, we need philanthropy to fund differently.
