Is there a chance that in trying to innovate we risk inflating systems in a way that 'misses the mark'? How can we approach innovative and big ideas in a way that is mission focussed? This conversation also features a careful speculations on the impact of OpenAI's ChatGPT and how learning innovators imagine and prepare for it's potential implications. https://www.gettingsmart.com/ Transcript available at https://www.thelearingfuture.com. In this sixth episode of Education Transformed, Louka spea...
Feb 08, 2023•44 min•Season 7Ep. 6
Is it possible that reframed early learning can empower otherwise disadvantaged young people? Is there an opportunity to re-define schools as community hubs and social squares? Do teachers need to be an expert in mental health in order to improve wellbeing? In this fifth episode of Education Transformed, Louka speaks with Frank Oberklaid, a pioneer and inspiring spark for early education geared directly at the centres for child wellbeing, with demonstrable results. Professor Frank Oberklaid is t...
Jan 26, 2023•39 min•Season 7Ep. 5
Is education a globally recognised construct, is it universal? What are the environments in which the best transformations occur and which regions have unique and interesting approaches? In this Fourth episode of Education Transformed, Louka speaks with Gavin Dykes, a wealth of knowledge about the unique approaches to education globally with https://www.theewf.org/ . Transcript available at: https://www.thelearningfuture.com/the-learning-future-podcast-about Gavin Dykes is Programme Director of ...
Jan 20, 2023•35 min•Season 7Ep. 4
What do the innovative architects of education sound like? How might they imagine channels that defy the “trickle-down” model of success by delivering high-tech and advantageous tools of education and employment directly to all? In this Third episode of Education Transformed, Louka speaks with John Goodwin and Chris Purifoy. LEF’s mission to bring quality skills and equal opportunity to every human on Earth, using open standards and web3 technologies. https://www.learningeconomy.io/ John Goodwin...
Dec 21, 2022•40 min•Season 7Ep. 3
In this second episode of Education Transformed, Louka speaks with Dr Anantha Duraiappah , Director of the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development. A depthful discussion about the whole brain approach to learning and education, including a confident approach to digital pedagogy, where neuroscience technology is applied to learning and teaching as a potentiality enhancer. UNESCO MGIEP in New Delhi, India is UNESCO’s first category 1 institute in the Asia...
Dec 14, 2022•39 min•Season 7Ep. 2
Find out which countries are embarking on true education transformation and discover why transformation might be the best way to articulate the changes we need in schools and education systems. View the report: https://www.diplomaticourier.com/issue/transformed-the-case-for-education-transformation Today's episode is with educationalist, convenor, and non-profit leader Dominic Regester. Dominic is Director of Education and Director of the Center for Education Transformation at Salzburg Global Se...
Dec 07, 2022•28 min•Season 7Ep. 1
Louka Parry introduces a season 7: “Education Transformed” a series of conversations that aren’t afraid to leave behind past preconceptions to allow for real unhindered bold change and innovation in learning and education - both practical examples and plans for the future. Season 7 is partnered with the Salzburg Global Seminar . thelearningfuture.com
Dec 05, 2022•2 min•Season 7Ep. 1
Louka reflects on the last season the "d.school Spotlight" that featured 10 insightful authors affiliated with the Hasso Platner Institute of Design at Stanford . Please revisit any these season 6 episodes that pique your interest: ‘My Favorite Failure’ with Laura McBain & Ron BeGhetto Spotify - Apple ‘Navigating Ambiguity’ with Kelly Schmutte Spotify - Apple ‘The Secret Language of Maps’ with Carissa Carter Spotify - Apple ‘Drawing on Courage’ with Ashish Goel Spotify - Apple ‘Design for Be...
Nov 24, 2022•19 min•Season 6Ep. 11
In this tenth and final episode of the Stanford d.school spotlight; Sam Seidel hustles up valuable guiding principles for building a network - people - practice template for creation. A clear recipe, with enlightening examples, of people who have been successful with via more ‘alternate’ means, with side hustles becoming front and centre! Sam is an author of the illustrated dschool guide Creative Hustle . What is a side hustle and why are they becoming so common? How might we extract the most va...
Sep 15, 2022•34 min•Season 6Ep. 10
In this ninth episode of the Stanford d.school spotlight; Charlotte Burgess-Auburn conjures radical innovative thinking, a fundamentally novel and useful way of looking at design via flexible prototyping! She is author of the illustrated dschool guide You Need a Manifesto . Ever struggle with a decision? Perhaps lacked a sense of purpose or drive? Every been challenged by a dilemma? Charlotte Burgess-Auburn makes the case for personal and professional Manifestos - a foundation on which to manife...
Sep 08, 2022•38 min•Season 6Ep. 9
In this eighth episode of the Stanford d.school spotlight; Scott Witthoft conjures radical innovative thinking, a fundamentally novel and useful way of looking at design via flexible prototyping! He is author of dschool guide This is a Prototype . What is a prototype, how can we approach their design and creation, and what is their utility? Scott Witthoft works as an educator, designer, and author. Drawing from his past practice of forensic structural engineering, he incorporates that expertise ...
Sep 01, 2022•45 min•Season 6Ep. 8
In this seventh episode of the Stanford d.school spotlight; Lisa Kay Solomon gives a peek of the thoughts around her upcoming book about her recent innovative civics exercises with learners. Are our systems designed for short term rewards and is the design of civics and business at odds with the future? The conversation features a broad range of topics from design, futures, civics, the importance of agency to extra high-quality civics education. Futures thinking, practices, and mindsets are teac...
Aug 11, 2022•44 min•Season 6Ep. 7
In this sixth episode of the Stanford d.school spotlight; Barry Svigals gives a peek of the thoughts around his book Changing the Conversation about School Safety . Published as a d.school guide . Read it here: https://issuu.com/stanforddschool/docs/changingtheconversationaboutschoolsafety-k12lab. Can over-securing reduce feelings of enjoyment and senses of safety? How does might an obsession with safety present obstacles and challenges when designing learning environments and systems? Barry Svi...
Aug 04, 2022•38 min•Season 6Ep. 6
In this fifth episode of the Stanford d.school spotlight; Susie Wise, author of Design for Belonging: How to Build Inclusion and Collaboration in Your Communities clarifies the subject and discusses how she arrived at the approaches of her book. Published as a d.school guide . The feeling of belonging is a fundamental human need. It's how we know we can show up, be ourselves, and thus enables learning. From a design perspective, we need to understand the feeling of belonging - and understand how...
Jul 21, 2022•27 min•Season 6Ep. 5
In the fourth instalment of the Stanford d.school spotlight; Ashish Goel, author of Drawing on Courage: Risks Worth Taking and Stands Worth Making discusses the life canvas, inspirations, insights, and sources for him to publish his most recent book. Published as a d.school guide . Ashish forms a strong case for courage, the depth of courage, which is often only granted thankful or cursory visitations, is vast and the source of a-lot of power. Courage plays a role in learning, growth and develop...
Jul 14, 2022•38 min•Season 6Ep. 4
In the third spotlight of the Stanford d.school guides; Carissa Carter, author of The Secret Language of Maps: How to Tell Visual Stories with Data helps us navigate the far horizons and surprisingly detailed depths of maps. Maps are biased towards any number of variables - often driven by agenda or intention of the mapmakers. Carissa acts as a cartographer of the multi-faceted fields of mapmaking - discussing the dynamic effects of our maps on our real world perception and inversely our lenses ...
Jul 07, 2022•34 min•Season 6Ep. 3
In this second instalment of the Stanford d.school spotlight; Kelly Schmutte, co-author of Navigating Ambiguity: Creating Opportunity in a World of Unknowns (alongside Andrea Small, illustrated by Reina Takahashi) shares ideas about confidently approaching ambiguity and ambiguous situations with confident curiosity. She discusses how ambiguity should be seen as an asset, it enables freedom of outcome, a malleability of approach that allows for creative learning and action. Kelly Schmutte is a de...
Jun 30, 2022•31 min•Season 6Ep. 2
The first feature of the Stanford d.school spotlight has Laura McBain and Dr Ronald Beghetto , authors of My Favorite Failure . They share ideas about consciously engineering learning and experience with uncertainty and surprise as an ingredient. Perhaps we are too rigorously over-engineering education and human experience to the point of unnatural predictability? Ronald and Laura discuss how they believe there can be good in risks and unplanned experiences, and how we might form healthy and ben...
Jun 23, 2022•33 min•Season 6Ep. 1
View CSE paper 06 titled “Learning on purpose” by Charles Leadbeater and the Student Agency Lab and also, CSE paper 07 titled “Learning in a floating world of disciplines: Reflections on the MetaPraxis Project” by Michael Bunce. Louka reviews the amazing takeaways shared by frontline educators during AISSA’s agency lab 3-year project featuring lessons of agency from Charles Leadbeater and stories of the MetaPraxis Project, chiefly designed by Michael Bunce . Louka also shares excitement for the ...
Jun 20, 2022•32 min•Season 5Ep. 15
Featured Guests: Karen Schoff - Good Shepherd School Veronika Crilley - St. Johns Grammar Joyanne Gardner - St. Johns Grammar MetaPraxis is a 3-year approach led by educational philosopher and researcher Michael Bunce. MetaPraxis educators experience going beyond disciplines to move into the multi-dimensionality of learning, fusing knowledge skills, and capabilities so that our young people may thrive into their future. How might we bring about agency, cognitive skills, creativity, and design th...
May 05, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 5Ep. 14
Featured Guests: Graham Duffy - Pembroke School, Andrea Feldhoff - Pembroke School, Melanie Krueger - Trinity College North, Jessica Simons - Trinity College North, Catherine Emmerson - St. Johns Grammar School. MetaPraxis is a 3-year approach led by educational philosopher and researcher Michael Bunce. Hosted by The Learning Future’s very own Louka Parry, this four-part series features front-line educators who have experience with MetaPraxis by going beyond disciplines to move into the multi-di...
Apr 28, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 5Ep. 13
Featured Guests: Jo Rossiter - Annesley Primary School, David Taylor - Annesley Junior School, Mayra Franco - Walford Anglican School, Sam Bartram - Walford Anglican School, Julie Sampson - Cornerstone College, Rhett Fielke - Cornserstone College. MetaPraxis is a 3-year approach led by educational philosopher and researcher Michael Bunce. Hosted by The Learning Future’s very own Louka Parry, this four-part series features front-line educators who have experience with MetaPraxis by going beyond d...
Apr 21, 2022•52 min•Season 5Ep. 12
The MetaPraxis is a 3-year approach led by educational philosopher and researcher Michael Bunce. Hosted by The Learning Future’s very own Louka Parry, this four-part series features front-line educators who have experience with MetaPraxis by going beyond disciplines to move into the multi-dimensionality of learning, fusing knowledge skills, and capabilities so that our young people may thrive into their future. How might we bring about agency, cognitive skills, creativity, and design thinking; a...
Apr 14, 2022•42 min•Season 5Ep. 11
How do we be more on purpose, and less on point and create learning with rigour but not rigidity? How do we elevate voice, choice and initiative knowing that as we do so we create more freedom and more responsibility? In this episode of our 10-part special series on Learner Agency we discuss how students bring agency to life. This is the tenth lesson for agency shared by global education expert Charles Leadbeater in conversation with educators from schools across South Australia. In our conversa...
Apr 07, 2022•50 min•Season 5Ep. 10
How do we be more on purpose, and less on point and create learning with rigour but not rigidity? How do we elevate voice, choice and initiative knowing that as we do so we create more freedom and more responsibility? In this episode of our 10-part special series on Learner Agency we discuss how students bring agency to life. This is the ninth lesson for agency shared by global education expert Charles Leadbeater in conversation with educators from schools across South Australia. In our conversa...
Mar 31, 2022•53 min•Season 5Ep. 9
How do we be more on purpose, and less on point and create learning with rigour but not rigidity? How do we elevate voice, choice and initiative knowing that as we do so we create more freedom and more responsibility? In this episode of our 10-part special series on Learner Agency we discuss how students bring agency to life. This is the eight lesson for agency shared by global education expert Charlie Leadbeater in conversation with educators from schools across South Australia. In our conversa...
Mar 24, 2022•54 min•Season 5Ep. 8
How do we be more on purpose, and less on point and create learning with rigour but not rigidity? How do we elevate voice, choice and initiative knowing that as we do so we create more freedom and more responsibility? In this episode of our 10-part special series on Learner Agency we discuss how students bring agency to life. This is the seventh lesson for agency shared by global education expert Charlie Leadbeater in conversation with educators from three different schools across South Australi...
Mar 17, 2022•31 min•Season 5Ep. 7
How do we be more on purpose, and less on point and create learning with rigour but not rigidity? How do we elevate voice, choice and initiative knowing that as we do so we create more freedom and more responsibility? In this episode of our 10-part special series on Learner Agency we discuss how students bring agency to life. This is the sixth lesson for agency shared by global education expert Charlie Leadbeater in conversation with educators from three different schools across South Australia....
Mar 10, 2022•34 min•Season 5Ep. 6
How do we be more on purpose, and less on point and create learning with rigour but not rigidity? How do we elevate voice, choice and initiative knowing that as we do so we create more freedom and more responsibility? In this fifth episode of our 10-part special series on Learner Agency we discuss how students bring agency to life. This is the fifth lesson for agency shared by global education expert Charlie Leadbeater in conversation with educators from three different schools across South Aust...
Mar 03, 2022•42 min•Season 5Ep. 5
How do we be more on purpose, and less on point and create learning with rigour but not rigidity? How do we elevate voice, choice and initiative knowing that as we do so we create more freedom and more responsibility? In this fourth episode of our 10-part special series on Learner Agency we discuss how students bring agency to life. This is the fourth lesson for agency shared by global education expert Charlie LeadBeater in conversation with educators from three different schools across South Au...
Feb 24, 2022•45 min•Season 5Ep. 4
