eduFutureBlog

The 2006-2016 Knowledgeworks Foundation & The Institute for the Future präsentieren eine umfangreiche Map of Future Forces Affecting Education für die öffentliche Bildung in den USA. Obwohl wir hier in Europa immer etwas hinterher hinken, klingen die Analysekriterien in meinen Ohren eher wie eine gesellschaftliche Statusanalyse. Aber die Map führt den Handlungsbedarf für den öffentlichen Bildungssektor recht gut aus  – die Entwicklungen auf einen Blick vorliegen zu haben, ist schon recht interessant …

Future of Education Map (PDF)

Als Drivers of Change führen die Autoren auf:

• Grassroots economics. From economics of scale to economics of groups.
• Smart networking. From informed citizens to engaged networkers.
• Strong opinons, strongly held. From a global media to a splintered fundamentalism.
• Sick herd. From steadily improving quality of life to increasing signs of distress.
• Urban wilderness. From predominantly rural to predominantly urban spaces.
• The end of cyberspace. From physical versus digital to seamlessly physical and digital.

Diese generellen Trends spiegeln sie nunmehr auf folgende gesellschaftliche Bereiche:

1. Family & Community

• Local value grows
• Youth media defines community networking
• Families become deeply diverse
• It’s harder to be healthy
• Humans become urban species
• Urban environments become VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex & ambiguous) focal points
• The community becomes the classroom

2. Markets

• The market values learning
• Public schools become hubs in value networks
• People make their own worlds
• Education becomes a health issue
• Infrastructures are flexible and localized
• New norms create new expectations for childhood

3. Institutions

• Communities create common-pool resources
• Unbundled education supports personalized learning
• Urban frontiers as innovation zones
• Everyone is a donor or lendor
• The built environment becomes instrumented and responsive

4. Educators & Learning

• Knowledge collectives catalyze innovation
• Educational careers forge new paths
• Personalized learning focuses on the craft of teaching
• Youth pioneer new urban survival skills
• Public places become personal spaces
• Learning gets physical

5. Tools & Practices

• Technologies of cooperation leverage the open economy
• Smart mobbing becomes a primary social-networking skill
• Media become personal and collaborative
• Toolkits drive a do-it-yourself culture
• Disciplines of readiness focus on building resilience
• Life and learning become serious games

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