Future of Education – Page 5 – American Alliance of Museums

Free your mind! Funky futures & transformative education

By Elizabeth Merritt

“If you free your mind, you free your relationship to time”—George Clinton, funky musician and Afrofuturist Vibrant (adjective): Full of energy and enthusiasm. Pulsating. Bright and Striking… Learning (noun): The acquisition of …
The Future of Museums (According to One Woman)

By Elizabeth Merritt

I was delighted to be interviewed for an issue of MISC Journal devoted to The Future According to Women. As the introduction notes, “The future we read about is made up of recycled bits of interviews curated from the minds of a few great …
Museums: An Important Partner in Talent Development Models of Gifted Education

By Elizabeth Merritt

Since I’ve begun exploring the small but expanding universe of “museum schools,” I’ve discovered they come in many different flavors. Some are schools actually run in and by a museum (like the Grand Rapids Public …
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 …
Experiencing History in 2040

By Elizabeth Merritt

Hi–Sylvea here. We have learned so much about your visions for the future of P-12 learning! As our call for submissions with the Education Future Fiction Challenge draws to a close (Reminder: official deadline is 3/14/2016) we leave …
Learning through Play: Exhibition Developers and PreK-12 School Partnerships

By Elizabeth Merritt

CFM’s report Building the Future of Education envisions a future in which museums are integral parts of a distributed network of resources that support all learners. We are continually on the hunt for fragments of that future that …
9/11/2040: A Future Lesson About the Past

By Elizabeth Merritt

Hi, Sylvea here…..as we move into the last couple weeks of our Education Future Fiction Challenge I hope that many of you are still developing your submissions ;-). Not sure where to start? Read some of our Future Fiction Friday posts and …
More on our Ford Fellow Search: the future of distributed work

By Elizabeth Merritt

Did you go to work today? Did you go into the office? For much of the last century those two actions were synonymous. But now, for many Americans, the answers to these questions are respectively a) yes and b) no. I’m bringing this up …
Life’s Persistent Problems: TED Talk June 2040

By Elizabeth Merritt

Sylvea here. I’d like to introduce Dr. Tom P. Abeles, editor of On the Horizon, a foresight journal on education. His #FutureFictionFriday story is a 2040 TEDTalk about continuous learning . Dr. Abeles shares several future …
The Future of Websites

By Elizabeth Merritt

CFM is a “skunkworks” for the Alliance, as well as an idea lab for the field. Sometimes we test drive things that may (or may not) work to assess whether they are promising practices for the association as a whole. Case in point: our …