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Announcing Education Future Fiction Challenge Winners

By Elizabeth Merritt

Hi, Sylvea here… In late January the we invited museum professionals, educators, futurists, education policy advocates, and community allies to contribute their vision of an educational future for the US that places museums at its …
Your Guide to the Future at the AAM Annual Meeting 2016

By Elizabeth Merritt

It’s so great to be having the annual meeting in DC this year! I look forward to showing you around my home turf and sharing some of local museum treasures during receptions, evening events and offsite programs on Saturday and Sunday …
Monday Musing: the Museum as Poison Cabinet

By Elizabeth Merritt

Monday musings are my way of sharing “brain blorts”: brief, off-the-cuff thoughts about something I have read (or in this case, heard) recently, both to help clarify my thinking an in the hopes of generating discussion and …
Futurist Friday: Coming this Fall, the First Cyborg Olympics

By Elizabeth Merritt

One of the themes I explore in TrendsWatch 2016 is the blurring boundaries between ability, disability and augmented ability. We are experiencing a surge in “assistive technology” that can compensate for physical impairments …
Finding Your Niche in the Future Learning Ecosystem

By Elizabeth Merritt

Here’s my thesis: “school” needs to be radically revamped to ensure that every kid has a safe, stimulating, supportive learning environment. Note I put “school” in quotes: one big challenge to inventing a new …
Museum Studies Programs & Tools for Creating More Inclusive Curricula

By Gretchen Sorin

The graduates of museum studies programs are overwhelmingly white and female. If we want museums to be staffed by people who reflect the American public, we can broaden our search beyond museum studies program, and we can encourage …
Museums and Personalized Learning

By Elizabeth Merritt

Technology is fueling personalization of products, services, communications and experiences. We explored some of the implications of this trend in TrendsWatch 2015, but the impact and potential of “personal” continues to grow, …
Futurist Friday: Inventing the Edge-y Workplace

By Elizabeth Merritt

One of the themes I explore in TrendsWatch 2016 is the way cultural, economic and technological forces rapidly transforming the way we work. Our infrastructure, for the most part, hasn’t caught up. Here’s one workplace that …
Tools for Exploring the Future

By Elizabeth Merritt

This post is one of a series highlighting insights, recommendations and resources from TrendsWatch 2016, the latest edition of CFM’s annual forecasting report. Download your free PDF copy here. It may provoke some giggles that …
Questions about the Future of Learning and Education

By Elizabeth Merritt

“What if we said to children, ‘You can learn however you want, wherever you want to, with whom ever you want to?’” –education activist Nikhil Goyal “Don’t try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor …