Newsletter 45: Future Education 3.0 - The Time for 'Strategic Foresight' in ED3 Has Come.

A focus on strategic foresight in education seems to be increasingly important for the future of schools, as the headlines each day seem to accelerate predictions of apocalyptic and utopian futures. How will AI revolutionize schools, in what way, and how quickly? This seems to be one of the most important and relevant questions to date, with Elon Musk predicting AGI will be here in one to two years, and within five years, he expects society is to be completely transformed, echoing the same ideas and concepts of Amy Webb over at the Future Today Institute .

While on theme of reports, check out from Pearson their take on Future Skills. It's important to think about how these skills are being developed in schools. Thanks to Sam Challenor for this extra piece of evidence and developing that foresight piece.

These are my ideas in the short term.

a) How will AI innovate learning and teaching?

Key ideas: Interactive AI Classes, AI Controlled CPD, AI Textbooks, AI Assisted School Planning and AI Surveys.

b) How will AI increase school efficiency in both private and public, front and back ends of schools?

Key ideas: A Reconfiguration of Evaluation Practices with AI, AI Agents in School Administration, AI in Marketing and Publicity.

c) How will AI hyper-personalize the learning experience?

Key Ideas: Digital Twins, Individual AI Designed Projects, Digital Portfolios.

As the technological supercycle descends Future Today Institute and the wave of AI-powered gadgets starts to tie the world together through this AI network, how will this affect schools? For example, 01 Light, in my opinion, could really transform school life.

But 01 Light is not alone in this space.

Check out Merlyn Origin for classroom. This seems like a huge step forward for best classroom practice. Thanks for this idea Dan Fitzpatrick

Thanks to Stefan Bauschard , this is a very interesting article in The Atlantic about the demise of the second language taught in schools. Many studies have shown the positive effects of bilingualism, but this certainly provides food for thought on how we might interact with other languages, especially in international school settings.

I have encountered many confused international students on day one and they are seem confused three months later, could these ideas help with this problem.

"The largest models, and large language models in particular, seem to behave in ways textbook math says they shouldn’t. This highlights a remarkable fact about deep learning, the fundamental technology behind today’s AI boom: for all its runaway success, nobody knows exactly how—or why—it works." Will Douglas Heaven

How interesting, you can read more here:

I would like to give Valkyrie to the gamer featured in Newsletter 43 and see if she could start to control it with her mind. I like how NASA has called this a "Superhero Robot." I am going to withhold judgment on this until it does something "Superhero" like at first.

Micro schools will save us all, as we know at Colegio Ikigai , but here are some additional ideas about how they could also regenerate the urban landscape. This is exactly what happened with Colegio Ikigai when we took control of an abandoned space in Mexico City.

Really will it be this many jobs and only in wave one and what can we do about this? What is wave two about? Perhaps microschooling and urban regeneration does have an urgent priority in the conversation.

Thanks for reading 'The Education 3.0 Newsletter.' I do strongly believe this vision for the future.