Australian Education Technology Futures

Exploring the future potential role of pedagogical technology within the Australian secondary school learning environment

Secondary school students are preparing for a work future within a post-industrialised context where their future employment will be radically different from previous generations (and most likely, radically disconnected) from the school system within which they are being prepared.

• How will future technology experiences transform pedagogies?

• What inherently human challenges does this technology surface and how might we meet them?

• Where is the key tension in the alignment of scaleable pedagogical frameworks with non-linear outcomes?

• How might an increasing future reliance on technology, shape our understanding of expertise, learning and shared value in the future?

We know that it’s impossible to deal with this question about technology’s role in education (specifically the school system) in isolation; because the education system does not operate in isolation. It is part of a whole ecosystem of moving parts, and paths, and actors that both make up the system and also operate independently of the system.

We also know that the process of imagining possible futures is :

• emergent

• continuous

• evolving

• anticipatory

• never finished

An Invitation to Enrolment

This site is the first step in creating both an Education Commons, and a Community of Practice. This site was designed to start the conversation. It’s going to be an ongoing one, because we’re just getting started. Think of this site - as an invitation to enrolment.

How should you use this site? Well the short answer is . . any way you like. You can follow the foresight process through each stage, and then look at the scenarios and then the future fable OR you can jump straight to the bits that spark your interest, and then go back and check out the chain of custody in the research summaries contained in each foresight stage - or dive deeper and download the whole report.

The Foresight Process

You can view the Houston Foresight Process used in this project step by step, where you'll see that each part is downloadable in an effort to encourage you to participate not just in the imaginings of this project, but in your own educations futures imaging.

Many of the templates have been provided for you to download (either with the research from this project or blank to fill in yourself).

An example of some of the research can be seen below and the entire report su

You can view the live project here