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In the twenty-first century educators around the world are being told that they need to adapt young people for an increasingly global knowledge economy in which digital technologies intensify competition and change. They are being asked to re-design and re-imagine educational systems to meet this future world. Too rarely, however, do we ask whether this vision is robust, achievable or even desirable or whether alternative futures might be in development.Drawing on ten years of research into educational innovation, incorporating scientists, teachers, students, industry professionals and policy-makers, this book challenges the often adopted notion of a single, linear educational future. Considering alternative strategies for conceptualising the future of education, Keri Facer takes into account the challenges that future decades may face, including: the effects of climate change on technologies socio-technical developments relevant to educators changing relationships between humans and machines ageing populations and intergenerational relationships the theoretical and practical knowledge and tools needed.Approaching the subject from an educational standpoint, incorporating the accounts of educators, students and communities as active agents in shaping their educational futures, this book is positioned around key areas of interest in education, including: adult-child relationships, models of intelligence and workforce polarisation. Packed with examples from around the world and utilising vital research undertaken by the author while running 'The UK's FutureLab' the book helps to bring into focus the future that is just over the horizon.An important contribution to the debates surrounding educational futures, this book is compelling reading for all professionals involved in education, as academics, students and policy-makers.

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
Introduction: Education, technology and the future	p. I
Thinking about 'the future'	p. 4
Relationships between social and technological change	p. 6
How can we rewrite the relationship between education and the future?	p. 8
Key assumptions	p. 10
Outline of the book	p. 14
Is there a future for sch... MOREools?	p. 17
Educating the 'new millennials' and 'digital natives'	p. 18
Competition and fragmentation	p. 20
A new educational ecology	p. 23
Learning and working	p. 25
The disappearing school?	p. 27
In defence of a school	p. 28
A new generational contract	p. 30
The standard model of childhood	p. 30
'Digital natives' and 'lifelong learners'	p. 31
Ageing populations and beanpole families	p. 33
Salesman, disciplinarian or competitor: what role for adults?	p. 36
Anew contract between generations	p. 40
Being human	p. 43
Improving on evolution?	p. 44
The non-forgetting human	p. 47
When biology meets computing	p. 49
Counter-measures	p. 51
Diversity and interdependence	p. 53
Collective, embodied and dangerous knowledge	p. 56
Collective intelligence	p. 56
Stewarding the knowledge commons	p. 60
Thinking with the body	p. 63
From filtering to integration	p. 65
Dealing with dangerous knowledge	p. 67
Discernment, responsibility and multiliteracy	p. 69
Mind the gaps	p. 72
Disaggregating institutions	p. 72
Radical polarization	p. 76
Breakdown: the twenty-first-century canyon	p. 81
Building living futures	p. 84
Education intervening in economic futures	p. 87
Networks, collectives and crowds	p. 89
New public spaces	p. 90
Potential tools for social change	p. 92
False democracies	p. 97
Democratic futures?	p. 99
Schools building a quality conversation about the future	p. 101
A future-building school	p. 103
Beyond 'future-proofing'	p. 103
Towards the future-building school	p. 107
The future-building school of 2035	p. 109
Front-of-house	p. 109
Resource mapping	p. 111
The museum	p. 114
The common room	p. 115
The digital layer	p. 116
The futures game	p. 117
The staff	p. 118
Making it real	p. 124
Educational futures already in development	p. 124
Nine conditions to enable future-building schools	p. 128
Conclusion	p. 132
Notes	p. 135
References	p. 153
Index	p. 173
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Keri Facer is Professor of Education at the Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, where she works in the fields of digital cultures, educational change and social justice.

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