Why, and how, did we pull together 30 people from all over the world to pool ideas on re imagining education?
It started with the pandemic, the event that upended all of our lives. In a series of web meetings between April and June of 2020, members of the RSA and the Augmented Society Network arrived at three general topic areas where the pandemic was forcing us to reimagine our whole conceptual framework:
- Education (how we learn),
- value (ways to quantify and qualify what is important),
- and resourcing (how we produce, trade, and obtain what we need or desire).
In July and August of 2020, further global web meetings started honing in on eight aspects of education that seemed ripe for re imagining, these became our eight themes.
Between August 2020 and February 2021, we explored and wrote about these themes. Over the centuries there has been no shortage of inspiring ideas for the evolution of education. Understandably one could become quite frustrated that smart ideas presented 50 years ago have still not come into practice because the education tanker moves ever onward in its own vast ocean.
