• Guess Who Endorsed You! And Why Should You Care?

    About two months ago I started to get emails with the subject line “so-and-so has endorsed you,” originating from LinkedIn “on behalf of” the person doing the endorsing. At first I thought it was some kind of scam/spam. It’s legit, though, …
  • Can Early Learning in Museums Matter?

    Today’s guest post is by Colin Robertson, Charles N. Mathewson Curator of Education at the Nevada Museum of Art. I fell in love with NMA when I was in Reno last year for both personal and professional reasons. Personal, because it fuses …
  • Updates to CFM’s 2012 Trends to Watch

    Our first annual summary of Dispatches from the Future of Museums—TrendsWatch 2012: Museums and the Pulse of the Future—is getting a lot of attention and commentary, which is great. But as soon as Phil Katz (my co-author) and I sent it to …
  • Unschooling, Museums & Learning Models for this Century

    One trend highlighted in TrendsWatch 2012 is America’s jittering progress towards a new educational era. I’ve been exploring a number of alternate futures for our learning landscape, in this blog and in the article “The Future of …
  • Can Museums Step Up?

    Today’s guest post is by Jesse Moyer, manager of organizational learning and innovation at KnowledgeWorks. KnowledgeWorks is dedicated to “transforming education in the U.S. from a world of schooling to a world of learning.” As a nonprofit …
  • Futurist Friday: Exploring the Future of Education

    I’ve been blogging a lot about the future of education, and the coming of a new educational era. If we are on the cusp of transformational change, it’s very important for museum futurists to be actively scanning for hints of what this new …
  • The Next Era of Education will be…what?

    This is a very important question for museums, don’t you agree? If museums are, fundamentally, educational in nature, if this role is the basis of our tax-exempt status and our major contribution to society, it’s crucial for museums to …
  • Unschoolers on Museums

    Today’s guest post is from Ilana and Maya McGrath, passion-driven learners who live with their mother Sara, a National Unschooling Examiner, in Seattle. (You can read more of Sara’s observations on education here.) The McGraths responded …
  • Unschooling—a Fringe Future of Education

    Earlier this month I blogged about the future of education—a theme CFM will be exploring for some time. As part of this exploration, I will share scanning hits—news, hints, pictures and premonitions that point to where in educational …

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